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Posted on 08/04/2025 2:30:45 AM PDT by MoraBlack
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I find this to more than likely to be TOTAL BS !!!
I will respectfully wait for others who are ACTUALLY IN THE KNOW.
I will take this time to again say Thank You to All of Our Service Members and Families for doing what they do.š«”ššŗšø
Military Families have access to the PX, BX or whatever?X they are called these days.
It goes to a person’s spending habits in sorting out needs and wants.
An E3 Private First Class in the U.S. Army with dependents receives a base pay of $2,260 per month, plus allowances for housing (BAH) and food (BAS). The higher ranks get considerably more.
Add to that the commissary does have good deals on food, I know because we buy there once in a while.
The article is BS. We live off much, much less than an E3’s pay.
For what it’s worth, I recall my first paycheck was $65 per month as an E1. It was in cash and we had to stand in line, salute the pay officer and make it past a drill sergeant to get it. If our uniforms or conduct were not up to par it meant pushups, lots of them. By the time you got paid you might wind up doing 50 pushups or more. This wouldn’t work out in today’s whiney baby military.
I doubt anyone has food insecurities in America considering the obesity rate
Private E-1 pay with a family is tough. Not everyone joins the military as a young, single person. The PX/BX isn’t some wholesale discount outlet. In fact, I find better deals and lower prices outside of the Army/Airforce Exchange Service. In fact, the commissary on post can be difficult to save money in versus, say, Walmart.
I recently retired as an Army CW4, but I entered as a Private First-Class, E-3, as a single man, married, and became a father on that pay and with a promotion to Specialist, E-4. It was possible in 2002-2005, but we were cutting costs everywhere. We qualified for WIC with our firstborn, but I was too proud to sign up for assistance. It would have helped, but I didn’t truly need it for survival.
One would really have to look at the specifics of everyone’s situation. Things are so expensive these days (thanks Biden).
No, offer free anything and people are going to wait in line for it.
The military offers all kinds of benefits for its members. BAH housing assistance, child care, medical and dental benefits, moving allowance up to 100% of the costs.
This was a classic hit piece by NBC......
We can thank them by bringing back all of those jobs we offshored so they can get high paying jobs, even if it means we have to pay a little more to do it. Is that too much of a sacrifice to make for those who did so much for us?
I call BS. Just like any subset of society, you can find those who can’t manage money. The military has more built in Safety Nets than any industry or “community”.
Twenty year Vet here, wife and kid on $288 a month. Just like my childhood lots of pinto beans and cornbread.
First...
It used to be called hunger.
But when the public found out that the government’s definition of hunger was someone missing at least one meal a month, then Deep State renamed it food insecurity.
The government’s definition of food insecurity...
We take lousy care of our military personnel.
Period.
What the article is doing is trying to use our military to make the food insecurity scam look less like the con and cash grab that it is.
I cannot express to you how many services the military offers to families on base. There’s too many to list. If you’re 19 years old, married with 2 young kids, as a Private it might be tough but there is no way anyone goes hungry. That’s ridiculous, in my experience.
It was true back when I was serving ā76-ā97.
I had this one medic in Hawaii who had five kids, was on welfare (WIC) and he wasnāt the only one.
Many of the troops in Maryland were also barely scraping along despite BAQ (Basic Allowance for Quarters - housing allowance) and supplemental income based on duty station COLA.
The military was never intended to be a YUGE social experiment, more like a monastic lifestyle, only in the past century of āprogressiveā socialist engineering have expectations grown to such an extent that the average (and many of them are far below that) troop thinks they should be able to live a lifestyle well beyond their means, just like any ordinary citizen.
The PX/BX, DECA (commissary) system isnāt FREE and in many areas prices are competetive with the local economy stores.
Also, according to my brothers and sisters, all vets, stuff on base is cheaper than elsewhere.
Food shortages are just around the corner thanks to the dems bringing in 20 million illegals who expect to be fed, housed, educated and medicated for nothing,,,,,,thanks to Biden and the dems. Crime will skyrocket when they have nothing to eat.
Having shopped a good bit at commissaries over the years, I’ll just say in the past five years....there’s a fair amount of inflation. You probably still save 5-to-7 percent over a regular grocery stores. If you use coupons and shop heavily on discounted items....you might save 15-percent over a normal grocery.
You are pretty much correct. But half the Census Bureau’s job seems to be to harass people with surveys asking loaded questions to get their bogus “food insecurity” stats.
Horse pucky. I live in the military town. There aren’t many “lean mean fighting machines” anymore. They look like their “food insecurity” is going just fine. You see a lot of three and four hundred pounders. They look like the Darien Gap mamas that show up at the border eating a bucket of chicken and weighing 200 pounds more than they weighed when they left home.
Itās not. This is complete BS.
How in ‘Ell are frequent moves making food more expensive? What a blithering idiot.
Utter B.S.
If you live on base you can always go to the chow hall.
Current pay for an E-4 with 2 years of service is $3,182.10 per month, plus a housing allowance if you live off-base which is $1,341/month for my zip-code, plus separate rations which is $465.77.
It’s enough to have food and decent shelter.
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