Fox News anchor Joey Jones slammed a sailor complaining about the food on the USS Abraham Lincoln in a fiery rant.
During Saturday’s airing of The Big Weekend Show, the co-hosts covered a CNN report on the conditions aboard the aircraft carrier, including a troop who didn’t like the food being served. This upset Jones, a retired U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sergeant, who let out an audible sigh before launching into his tirade.
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“I would say morale’s pretty low, and not just in the division, like in the ship entirely,” the sailor said in the clip. “We’re running pretty low on rations, I mean at some points in the day it would just be about noodles and tuna mixed in together, and that was it… Sometimes you get a corndog, sometimes you get a hot dog.”
“Do you know what I ate in Afghanistan for six months on a burner? I ate ramen noodles and had to pull the seasoning packet out because there’s too much sodium, and I put tuna packets in it and that’s what I ate,” Jones said. “And I was happy to have a because the alternative was an MRE or something cooked by the Afghan guy who was too stupid to be given a gun and they let him be the cook, so I wanted something spicy, test my fate, I get a bowl of whatever he made in the giant urn thing he had.”
“How weak are you?!” he exclaimed. “On TV complaining about tuna and noodles? I’m sorry, you volunteered to serve your country; you can come back and get out of the military and do like all the Democrat veterans and complain about it and make commercials and be a sellout if you want to and come up with a new way of doing things. The last Democrat president I remember deploying troops, Barack Obama, had the Army going to Iraq on a patrol basis for 15 months at a time, eating MREs. I’m sorry, but you are a sitting duck on a patrol base in Afghanistan, a heck of a lot more on the fortified Navy ship in the water. You might have got bored, and I’m sorry. We did have more fun getting in firefights, I’ll say that, but to sit there and say it was terrible because you had a corn dog and hot dog? I would have traded a block of C4 to the Taliban for a hot dog by about July 2010.”
“I just don’t understand the mentality. If this is a representation of who our military is now, and I’m not saying it is, but there’s at least enough for these trash rags to print about it. If this is who we are, we’re just Rome sitting here waiting to burn. We got nothing left. It makes me fume,” Jones continued. “If he said, ‘We didn’t have clean water to drink, we couldn’t take a shower,’ I didn’t get to take a shower for six months, but still, something to do with hygiene or getting sick. ‘There was a scurvy outbreak in the guys missing legs were only given wooden pegs instead of metal ones.’ Then maybe I might have some sympathy, but to that little kid and whoever raised him, Lord help you if you ever go into a hot war on the ground like millions of Americans. I can only think what a World War II veteran sitting there, who’s lucid enough today to see that and think about the six-month journey home from fighting the toughest war we’ve ever fought after being there for four years, was thinking, listening to him complain like that.”
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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