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The Superiority of American Logistics (Artist: Patso Catso)

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If your logistics network can ensure a supply of Big Macs and XBoxes and recreational niceties to your far-flung military outposts in peacetime, it can ensure a supply of weapons, ammunition, medical supplies and such when the shit hits the fan. Also, your troops, eating their cheeseburgers on an obscure Pacific atoll, know this and have better morale.

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- I was about to say no we really do this.
  
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McHalf-Track

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McTechnical?

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Behold the ice cream fleet

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There is exactly one Taco Bell in Germany. For Ramstein Air Base:
https://www.yelp.com/biz/taco-bell-ramstein-miesenbach?hrid=hv10pQ0zMLUBd7Ot1Al5SQ

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- That’s not a truck, though. That’s in the main BX food court…like on most military installations. Along with a Poppeyes, Subway, Charlies, Panda Express, Starbucks, Baskin-Robins….etc etc etc
  
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  Yes, doesn't the very existence of those "food courts" underline the caricature?
  
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Who needs a political officer when you have a McHalftrack?

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US halftracks are a fucking vibe

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The M is for Machine.

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Seems like a missed opportunity: you could hook up the boiling oil to a water cannon.

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Bonus NonCredibleDefense: long-term advertising works.

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Zoom in- "Happy Sherman Meal" is the Where's Waldo of the day. Can you find it? I knew you could!

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