1. United States
2. Texas
3. Letter

The House and Senate Armed Services Committees must immediately investigate the food shortages and mail suspension affecting thousands of service members deployed in the Middle East. Trump and Hegseth must be held accountable for their disgraceful handling of this war and for dismissing the very people who could have stopped this from happening. Trump and Hegseth fired all the top military advisors responsible for orderly conduct of military operations. The Iranian tactic of destroying U.S. supply depots on the other side of the Gulf is textbook war maneuvering, but they preferred to remove all the staff who would have stopped such attacks. Now our naval personnel are not getting adequate food to work twelve-hour shifts. Service members aboard the USS Tripoli, USS Abraham Lincoln, and USS Gerald Ford report rationing supplies and receiving meals consisting of one scoop of shredded meat with a single tortilla, or a handful of boiled carrots with a dry meat patty. The U.S. Postal Service has suspended mail delivery to 27 military ZIP codes since April, leaving care packages stranded indefinitely. The Gerald Ford just broke the record for longest carrier deployment since the Cold War at 295 days. Pentagon leadership denies the problem exists while sailors message their families that supplies "are going to get really low" and morale is at an all-time low. Congress must investigate this breakdown, hold Trump and Hegseth accountable, restore mail service, and ensure our deployed personnel receive adequate food and supplies.