Wow.... Stealing food from our soldiers!

[Shawnee_b]

Nothing new. 1973 or just after there was an AF bust and scandal, now closed Griffis AFB. They were buying and feeding us horsemeat, pocketing the difference. Bet they learned in 50 years. For the lib doubters, cooked horsemeat is scarlet red, even disguised as 6 out of 7 days salisbury steak dinner. BTW, it was good.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

How do I just know that the stolen money... Or the redirected money was used on illegal aliens?
No good mutufukkers.

Army redirecting millions collected from soldier BAS pay meant for food services elsewhere: report

Hundreds of millions of dollars taken out of U.S. Army soldiers' Basic Allowance for Subsistence (BAS) pay that is meant to help with food costs is being redirected elsewhere, a report found.

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Feb 16, 2025

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

The money is collected in what amounts to a tax on troops -- taken from their Basic Allowance for Subsistence payments, roughly $460 per month that is automatically deducted from the paychecks of service members​

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

The money is collected in what amounts to a tax on troops -- taken from their Basic Allowance for Subsistence payments, roughly $460 per month that is automatically deducted from the paychecks of service members.

www.military.com

14 Feb 2025 ~~ By Steve Beynon

The Army is repurposing more than half of the...

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[Mushroom]

How do I just know that the stolen money.

The vast majority of single people in the military do not get BAS. That is primarily for those who are married and do not live in the barracks.

And there is absolutely no reason for the chow halls to use all the money they would get for feeding each of those individuals three times a day, as most do not eat at the chow hall three times a day. Even when I was a geographical bachelor and had a meal card, I maybe ate in the chow hall seven or eight times a week. Mostly for lunch, occasionally for breakfast or dinner. For those meals I would either nuke something in my room, or go somewhere out in town to eat.

There is nothing being "stolen", this is just another non-issue that is not real from Military.Com.

 

[Mushroom]

Duplicate thread.

And as usual, by somebody that does not understand that the majority of the enlisted do not get BAS. They live in the barracks and have a "meal card" that lets them eat in the chow hall for free. BAS is primarily for those who are married, work at bases that do not have chow halls available, or who work odd hours or locations that eating in one is not available.

For example, I had two cousins that were on BAS because they were both in the Air Wing, so frequently worked overnight shifts. There were no MidRats available, and they would often go and do TDY at remote locations like with Reserve units. So his entire unit was on BAS as opposed to trying to handle the paperwork mess of moving them on and off of it constantly.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

And as usual, by somebody that does not understand that the majority of the enlisted do not get BAS. They live in the barracks and have a "meal card" that lets them eat in the chow hall for free. BAS is primarily for those who are married, work at bases that do not have chow halls available, or who work odd hours or locations that eating in one is not available.

For example, I had two cousins that were on BAS because they were both in the Air Wing, so frequently worked overnight shifts. There were no MidRats available, and they would often go and do TDY at remote locations like with Reserve units. So his entire unit was on BAS as opposed to trying to handle the paperwork mess of moving them on and off of it constantly.

I posted the same thing in the duplicate thread. Sailors onboard ship or living in barracks NEVER draw BAS and it is never in their paychecks to begin with! Officers pay for every meal out of their paycheck. We get no allowance for subsistence. For a time, I was the wardroom mess treasurer, and they paid me for their meals which were 100% paid by the officers in the wardroom. On my gator-freighter, the jarhead officers had to pay also.

 

[Mushroom]

I posted the same thing in the duplicate thread. Sailors onboard ship or living in barracks NEVER draw BAS and it is never in their paychecks to begin with! Officers pay for every meal out of their paycheck. We get no allowance for subsistence. For a time, I was the wardroom mess treasurer, and they paid me for their meals which were 100% paid by the officers in the wardroom. On my gator-freighter, the jarhead officers had to pay also.

Well, one base I do know they all get BAS at is Seal Beach Naval Weapon Station. I visited there for a few days about ten years ago, and was planning on eating in the chow hall as I had eaten there tons of times when I was stationed there in the early 1980s. But was surprised to find out the chow hall was long gone, they converted it to an office for the civilian union back in the 1990s.

And talking to some of the Sailors, they all hated it. All of them had issues with maintaining their weight, as every single meal was either microwaved or from a fast food place. And it was more expensive than if they still had a chow hall.

BAS is only $460 a month. That means that on average they get around $5 per meal. Now imagine how healthy it is when 99% of your meals are microwave or fast food. And as the rooms only had a microwave and small fridge, most had to go out and get food once a week or more.

When I was at Fort Bliss in the early 2010s, they ran a test program in my unit as the Army was considering allowing all Soldiers to get BAS. And most at the end of the three months said they would rather give up the BAS and go back to having a meal card. Early on most loved getting a bigger paycheck, but realized by the end of the month that if they were not careful with it they might get stuck eating ramen noodles and leftover items from MREs as they had wasted more than they had thought before the next payday. And for all of them it turned out to be more expensive than it was when eating in the chow hall even occasionally.

And one thing I noticed in the article is that Fort Bliss is one of those singled out as doing better than others. Of course, as a major training base a lot more soldiers stationed there will be eating 3 meals a day in the chow hall. When I went to the NCO Academy there, I even had my BAS suspended and was given a meal card as like in most school settings we were marched to the chow hall three times a day. Training bases will always have a much higher percentage of those that eat in the chow hall, as most in training have no choice in the matter. You are on "military time" from the moment you wake up until after training for the day is done (whenever that is - normally after 1700).

 

[OKTexas]

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