[xzins]

they take up valuable resources like water, power, flight and convoy space and that cutting back on non-essentials is key to running an efficient military operation.

Got no problem with Burger King. The article indicates, though, that it's taking up needed space for moving war materiel.

That could be wrong or a lie, but is what was written in the article.

If it's militarily true, then Burger King has to take a back seat for a while.

[Mr Rogers]

I don’t believe it is true. For one thing, food is food - it takes up a certain space, and the hamburgers the chow hall serves take up as much space as the one Burger King serves. The pizza is local stuff - it isn’t Pizza Hut pizza, regardless of what is printed on the box.

And I believe the supplies for stuff like that come in commercially by truck via Pakistan.

I agree - if it is NEEDED to move bullets, then by all means. But I don’t believe for a moment that is true. I’m CERTAIN that as of 2007, the pizza toppings were NOT flown in from the USA...

[gogogodzilla]

It’d be better for morale to just tell Burger King to arrange for their own transport of supplies... and if they can’t, then Burger King would be the ones to shut down their store.

That way, the average GI Joe doesn’t have to see their leadership stripping away their last tastes of home.