Over $151 Million Taken from Soldiers' Paychecks for Food Costs Spent Elsewhere by the Army

[Nuthin' Fancy]

Really? Maybe you should read the Op again

I did.
The comments after, like you.........Blame Biden.

 

[struth]

I did.
The comments after, like you.........Blame Biden.

No they just highlight you and the op are hypocrities

That what Trump did is not uncommon

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

No they just highlight you and the op are hypocrities

That what Trump did is not uncommon

WTF?

Biden didn't do anything.
"What Trump did is not uncommon"........For Trump.
Trump redirected $$$ for military construction to his vanity wall.

 

[struth]

WTF?

Biden didn't do anything.
"What Trump did is not uncommon"........For Trump.
Trump redirected $$$ for military construction to his vanity wall.

As highljghted in this thread repeatedly xiden did the same thing. You posted a link showing us that yourself

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

As highljghted in this thread repeatedly xiden did the same thing. You posted a link showing us that yourself

Biden didn't do anything.
I blame Biden for not fixing what evidently, started under Trump.

The issue is not new. In 2020, Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, who has since left Congress, pressed then-Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy on the matter during a budget hearing, saying the Army is either "wasting half the food, or the money is not being spent on the soldiers' food and it's being spent on something it's not appropriated for." However, there was seemingly no follow-up to that inquiry, which came just before the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

[struth]

Biden didn't do anything.
I blame Biden for not fixing what evidently, started under Trump.

The issue is not new. In 2020, Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, who has since left Congress, pressed then-Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy on the matter during a budget hearing, saying the Army is either "wasting half the food, or the money is not being spent on the soldiers' food and it's being spent on something it's not appropriated for." However, there was seemingly no follow-up to that inquiry, which came just before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Xiden was doing the same thing your link shows that

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

Xiden was doing the same thing your link shows that

Biden didn't initiate it.
He just didn't fix it.
Someone did during the first Trump regime, I guess he was ignored.
It needs to be fixed.

 

[Mushroom]

The BAS rate is based on the Department of Agriculture's Food Cost index, not the actual cost of food to the military. This is why. If you raise the BAS for people who live off base to account for price increases, then it trickles through to those who live on base accordingly. Don't like it, change the way the program is set up, but this is because of W.'s 2002 reforms not Potato.

And since when are most who live in the barracks actually paid BAS?

That has certainly never been my experience, unless they have some seriously strange work hours, or are at a location that has no dining facilities available at all. I know my cousins in the Air Wing got that, because their base did not offer MidRats, and they worked some seriously messed up hours. And I know at Seal Beach they closed the chow hall about 30 years ago, so everybody there gets BAS.

But every unit I was ever in (Marines and Army), everybody that lived in the barracks had a meal card and was not paid BAS. I was actually one of the exceptions at Fort Bliss, as I was a "Geographical Bachelor", so could decide if I wanted BAS or a meal card. I selected BAS, as I already ate less than half my meals in the chow hall.

But the fact is, the military can pretty much never spend all that money. That is because not every person will eat every meal at the chow hall. In my experience, when stateside most will eat evening chow maybe half the time in the chow hall, if that. The rest of the time they go out in town.

This is easily seen, as the largest meal crowd in most chow halls is for lunch. Followed by Breakfast. On most bases, only around half as many people eat dinner in the chow hall as those who eat lunch there. Less people eating, so obviously there is less food prepared.

And I ate in the chow hall far more when I was deployed than at any other time in. That is because we had a 24 hour chowhall, so I could go and eat no matter what time it was. And most of the fast food places near the exchange only had outside eating. And it kinda sucks when you have to eat outside in 130 degree weather. I ate there maybe once a week, if that. And even then, I was most likely to walk the mile to the main PX where it was inside and had WiFi.