Couldn't they have sent Battlefield Kitchens to DC too?

[jmowreader]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/07/tanks-arrive-army-trump-birthday-parade/84093080007/

In this wonderful story we find this:

Soldiers and their equipment will be housed in a Department of Agriculture building and a warehouse owned by the General Service Administration. Chow will consist of two MREs (Meals Ready to Eat) and one hot meal per day.

MREs are intended for use when supply lines haven't been established or troops are located too far from normal supply lines (like, say, when they're fighting) to feed them A rations. The National Capitol Region doesn't have that problem; they could either put these troops on military bases that have enough barracks space to accommodate them and feed them in fixed mess halls, or bring Battlefield Kitchens in and have Army food service specialists cook meals for them. The 6600 troops they're forcing to be in this are a brigade equivalent, and the Army can definitely deal with feeding one stinking brigade.