Sailors aboard the USS Tripoli and other U.S. Navy ships enforcing the Iran blockade are reporting serious food shortages, with families describing sparse meals like a single folded tortilla with shredded meat as lunch. Many warships involved in the Iran war have been at sea for a month or longer, with the USS Tripoli at sea for over a month since leaving Japan. Families are now organizing care packages to supplement ship rations, though care packages remain in limbo amid an indefinite mail suspension — a logistical crisis compounding the nutritional one aboard vessels supporting a major military operation.