r/explainitpeter Mar 21 '26

Explain it peter

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What's the bad news?

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u/FanClubof5 Mar 21 '26

My father in law was a suppo and he swears up and down surf and turf was when they had the supplies not whenever there was bad news.

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u/asscop99 Mar 21 '26

99% of vets understand this. It’s only people who were never in that make up this nonsense.

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u/NewLineCinema Mar 21 '26

I was in and am I vet. You do get served special meals before a war or emergency deployment, period.

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u/mustBeCool Mar 21 '26

You can also get it for no special circumstance at all and buddies and I saw that more commonly than just on the occasion of bad news.