and last updated 2021-03-03 19:20:21-05
WXMI â Michigan lawmakers at the state and federal level are raising concern â and passing resolutions â after members of the Michigan National Guard were served inedible meals.
Roughly 1,000 guardsmen and women from Michigan are still in Washington, D.C. protecting the nationâs capital after the Jan. 6 riots. Recent images show raw meat and chicken and food with pieces of metal in it were served to guard members.
âRaw hamburgers, raw chicken, and then with the addition of some metal thatâs in thereâ¦thereâs some speculation that they might be Brillo pad fragments,â said Michigan Representative Bill Huizenga, who visited with Michigan National Guard troops last week. âWe cannot do this to our civilian soldiers. These men and women that have left their families left their jobs to come out here.â
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A whistle blower reported that numerous National Guard soldiers defending the US Capitol fell ill after they were allegedly fed with meat that was almost completely raw. There was even a report stating that shaved metal was found in the meals too.
WXYZ reported that a Michigan National Guard staff sergeant, whose name was not disclosed, stated that the guards aired complaints, not just once, but several times, after many of them have fallen ill. There were more than a dozen troops who got sick because of the almost raw meat that they ate.
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