In June 2025, against the backdrop of an exacerbation of the Iranian-Israeli conflict, several videos in which military from the United States showed their dinners prepared from delicacies became viral in social networks. Internet users saw in this a sign of the ambulance of the American contingent to Iran. We checked how justified such assumptions are.
The videos spread in Runet on June 19. The authors of publications in the signatures for these videos indicate that the American army allegedly has an unofficial tradition: the “richer” lunch in the dining room, the closer the sending of military personnel to the war zone or the beginning of a new war. Notes on this topic released Lenta.ru, "Russian newspaper","Komsomolskaya Truth","Tsargrad" Life.ru and other media. With similar comments, the videos were also published by Telegram channels "Live broadcast • News"(886,000 views at the time of writing of the analysis),"Operation Z: Warrixes of Russian Spring"(512 000),"Insider UA"(484,000),"Dual"(469 000), Nexta Live (208 000), "Uncle Glory"(189 000),"Truthfulness"(175 000),"Knockout"(169,000),"Rhymes and Panchi"(166 000) and others.
On the night of June 13 to June, Israel Started A military operation against Iran, attacking it with rockets and drones. Under the blow hit Nuclear facilities, airports and military bases. Were killed, according to different estimates, about 20 high -ranking Iranian military leaders, as well as scientists and engineers who worked on a nuclear program. In response, Iran began shelling Israel. In the course of a few days of exchanging strikes in both countries, they suffered peaceful inhabitants And Civil objects. From June 13, as a result of hostilities in Iran, according to the authorities, at least died 430 people, in Israel - 29 people.
Since the beginning of the aggravation of the Iranian conflict, US President Donald Trump more than once declaredthat Tehran should refuse nuclear weapons. At the same time, the politician answered all questions about the direct participation of the US Army in the conflict Bruttered. However, on the night of June 22, Trump reported On the social network Truth Social, that the American Air Force attacked three nuclear facilities in Iran, and called this attack outstanding success. Soheraran soon Draw a response on the American military base in Qatar (according to media reports, it is largely Wore symbolic character). On the night of June 24 Trump announcedThat Israel and Iran, through the mediation of the United States, agreed to a ceasefire.
In total, several videos are distributed in which, as Internet users write, luxurious dinners for the American military in anticipation of their sending to Iran are shown. On all these videos, men or women in military uniform show how they were given by delicacies, such as steaks and lobsters. Some military personnel simply shoot their own dinner, while others accompany the video with signatures like the “Third World War?”. The authors of the viral publications with a selection of such videos called this phenomenon of Deployment Meal, which can be translated as a "dish before transferring troops."
Judging by publications on the sites of American military departments, sometimes for military personnel really They are arranged Similar dinners, usually they Turned To the holidays. It is customary to serve Surf and Turf, that is, dishes based on a combination of seafood with meat. Moreover, on the website of the US Marine Corps, it is noted that so military personnel are fed not only in the United States, but also during combat missions in other countries.
Nevertheless, the authors of viral publications claim: luxurious dinners began to serve in the dining rooms of the American army precisely after the Israeli attack on Iran, and this marks the ambulance of military personnel to the war zone. To prove their theory, they lay out several videos. On one of them, men and women in military uniforms have lunch at a table in a room similar to an army base. The author of the video shoots a table on which steaks, lobsters and banks with Dr. soda are visible. Pepper. At the very beginning of the video, its author says: “In a set in honor of his birthday - a steak and a lobster” - after which he asks his colleagues as a lunch. One of them ironically replies that they are probably going to war.
“Verified” managed to find the source of this video. For the first time it Published In Tiktok, the @melly.fits user on February 2, 2025, that is, almost six months before the start of the Israeli operation against Iran. It is unlikely that this so -called pre -bear dinner took place so in advance. Judging by how actively the author continued lay out After this video, the videos in Tiktok, neither himself nor his colleagues were relocated to the war zone to the Middle East.
A similar situation applies to other video, which is distributed by Telegram channels. On him, one soldier takes off another who eats for lunch of the lobster. The signature for the video reads: "We’re Getting Deployed Aren’t We?" (“We are being thrown, right?” - English.). Although the video was widely dispersed only in June of this year, for the first time it Published In Tiktok a year ago - June 25, 2024 on the user's page @gabster.
In another viral video, the soldier makes a review for lunch, which she was served on the day of shooting the video. She says that the US Army monthly subtracts $ 450 from its salary for three meals a day, and shows a container with food: there is a steak, lobster, asparagus, casement salad, garlic bread, baked potatoes, shrimp cocktail, fruit salad and several types of desserts.
This video, unlike the previous ones, is actually published recently. User @retIredhotcheetogirl Placed Video in its profile in Tiktok June 14, 2025. The author publishes many videos about the American army, at least 39 of them are dedicated to the nutrition of military personnel. The last one is a video It turned out June 16. Although in other videos there are no steaks and lobsters, the rest of the diet is slightly different. In addition, at the very beginning of the viral video, the girl says: “This is what I received on the day of the founding of the army.” So the steak and lobster get on the video are a festive lunch in honor of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the US Army, which marked June 14.
Some other viral videos were also published this year, but with ambiguous signatures like “We were given lobsters, ribs, steaks and mac-n-chiz. Oh yes, this is the same time. " Two such videos, like the previous ones, first appeared on June 19 in Tiktok: the user posted one @Doriancrossllanother - @datboimaxfr. Although the authors do not specify exactly when exactly the video was shot, both to this day Continue Lay out the videos. This allows us to conclude that they were unlikely to be sent to a hot point.
In the English -language segment of social networks, rollers, on which the American military served delicacies, with signatures that they were fed before sending to the war zone, became actively spread On June 16, they gained particular popularity in X. At the same time, the video shot a few months ago was often accompanied by misleading signatures about the resumed Iranian-Israeli conflict. Similar publications Get Hundreds of thousands of views. Then, the military themselves, as in the case of the last two videos, began to post reviews for their own dinners with ironic signatures, like "I believe we are going to war."
Thus, the diet of American troops can really include steaks and baked lobsters, but such dishes are usually served for holidays, and not before sending to the war zone. Some videos that became viral in June of this year and accompanied by signatures that the menu in the army canteens in the United States changed after the Israeli attack on Iran was actually recorded long before the start of the operation. Other videos show festive dinners in honor of the 250th anniversary of the US Army, which was celebrated on June 14. Finally, some military began to joke in a joke video about sending to the war after the ordinary Internet users began to discuss this topic.
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