It makes me wonder if this is a way to help placate our troops through this time.
On one side, it seems much of this amounts to needless luxury. On the other, it seems a nice way of saying "thanks" to the troops.
It's really not. His descriptions are blowing things out of proportion. Even the movie theaters and "Wal-Mart style PXs" are rough edged. And those PXs really aren't anything like WalMart. They're just bigger than the tiny trailers that used to serve for PXs here in the early days.