Food Aid Packets in Search of a Color
The humanitarian food packets the U.S. military is dropping in Afghanistan will change color soon, but Pentagon officials can’t say what color they will be.
The packets won’t be yellow, their current color, because unexploded cluster bombs are yellow. The Defense Department’s next choice was blue, but that was scrapped because of undefined “cultural connotations.”
Rear Adm. John D. Stufflebeem, deputy operations director for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Friday he did not know why blue was out.
The Pentagon decided to change the color of the plastic-wrapped packets after humanitarian groups complained that Afghan children might mistake unexploded cluster bombs for the food packets.
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