Knee Deep in the Hooah!

Too bad your funds are being cut. Granted the items listed in this first report are mostly luxury items. How long before we start seeing lists of shrinking supplies of essential equipment? It will happen — It’s a Democrat thang.

US Supplies Shrinking in Afghanistan

Chicago Tribune
Military.com
Excerpt

KABUL, Afghanistan — The milk is now pulled from the mess hall by 9 a.m., to ration the limited supply.

At the Camp Phoenix base store nearby, the shelves look bare. There’s no Irish Spring Body Wash, no Doritos, no Tostitos Scoops, no Bayer Aspirin.

“We’re having the same problems all over Afghanistan,” said Randy Barnes, who manages warehouses for the Army Air Force Exchange Service, which operates stores at many of the bases where U.S. troops are deployed in the war on terror here.

For the Soldiers at Camp Phoenix, about 650 of whom are from the Illinois National Guard, the missing supplies underscore what senior military officials have been saying for months: U.S. and coalition troops must find new routes to supply what will be a rapidly growing force in Afghanistan, ones that avoid the treacherous border areas of Pakistan where convoys have been ambushed.

snip

President Barack Obama has made the fight against militants in Pakistan and Afghanistan — rather than in Iraq — his top priority in the war on terror. His administration is expected to send as many as 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan in the coming months.

He has also cut the Pentagon budget by 55-billion dollars to show his support of the extra 30,000 troops he is sending in the coming months.

glwt guys.

It’s a Democrat Thang.