Posted on 03/25/2010 6:41:26 PM PDT by Teflonic
Whoppers, Dairy Queen sundaes and the latest movies will soon disappear for U.S. military personnel serving in Afghanistan, according to a blog posting by Sgt. Maj. Michael T. Hall discussing changes to morale, welfare and recreation facilities on U.S. bases there.
In an effort to put more focus on fighting the Taliban, the military is cutting back on "non-essentials" in Afghanistan, Hall announced on the International Security Assistance Force Afghanistan blog this week. Hall is the command sergeant major for ISAF.
On large U.S. facilities such as the Kandahar and Bagram air bases, that includes closing restaurants such as Burger King, Dairy Queen, Orange Julius and Pizza Hut, dropping first-run movies from base theaters and cutting the amount of canned and bottled goods imported from the States, Hall writes.
“This is a warzone – not an amusement park,” he writes.
(Excerpt) Read more at afghanistan.blogs.cnn.com ...
I have been in Afghanistan and I spent most time at tiny little fire bases. I will say that making it back to Bagram air base for a pizza and/or burger was all every troop talked about. What a disgusting move by a wanna be hard a$$.
COME HOME TROOPS AMERICA NEEDS YOU for the coup.
Hall is clearly little more than a lickspittle mouthpiece for the generals back home who have political and promotion aspirations vis a vis the Obama administration.
These semi-permanent "Little Americas" are only enjoyed on a daily basis by headquarters and support elements, and serve to further detach the "rear" from the real war that others fight on a daily basis. Such extreme disparities in daily conditions is the reason that infantrymen often refer to many of their softer brethren as REMFs (Rear Echelon M- F-s). It is not a term of respect or endearment.
My suggestion: Get serious, win, and get the hell out.
Obama sspends money like a drunken sailor then cuts simple things that cost nearly nothing. Didn’t we have an article on FR recently that the Muslims complained about these American eateries?
Thank all of you who have put their arses on the line. You should be treated like kings when you get back to base.
That depends on whether or not you count the SLA.
IIRC, those “non-essentials” are there to reduce the effect of post-traumatic stress (aka “combat fatigue”) on our troops. And, if understand some of the stuff I have read, it works.
The troops aren’t that important when you have to fund socialism.
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