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A picture shared by a US Marine deployed on the USS Tripoli of a meal service members on board received.

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Former Navy officials said the pictures of service members' subpar meals looked markedly worse than the quality of eats during their time in Navy service.

"That's telling me that you're down to the stuff you don't normally get," Mike Smith, a retired rear admiral who has deployed aboard an aircraft carrier to the Middle East and commanded an aircraft carrier strike group, said after viewing the pictures.

"You expected to be resupplied and you haven't been, so you're going to your food stores that perhaps have been there longer – perhaps they're not as popular."

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle said following USA TODAY's report that it was standard for fresh produce to run out on ships between restocking, but the only complaints he'd received were from sailors who didn't care for the vegetable of the day.