Posted on 09/14/2022 6:25:06 PM PDT by Brown Deer
Hate to break it to you, but this is nothing new. I was in the Air Force in 1977-81 and they were pushing food stamps for young enlisted families back then.
Is this the same as the free Weapons Stamps given to Zelinsky?
“Not the first time enlisted personnel have had to rely on food stamps to make ends meet.”
Toward the end of Lincoln’s War I’ve read that some Confederate soldiers would sift the dirt in the roads looking for undigested corn kernels left by cavalry horses. This they would boil and eat.
I hope it doesn’t get this bad in Biden’s army; he has plenty of money. Whether the troops are a priority is another matter.
We can send BILLIONS to Ukraine and we can’t feed our OWN soldiers SPIT, God I HATE these people!!
The Russian military is the end-state of this sort of thing.
They risk their lives for their country and are treated like second class citizens.
Even our Indian fighting army in the west was so neglected they had food shortages, in garrison.
As the military becomes more liberal and more feminized, it will become like a federal job and will be mostly about pay, quality of life issues, and daycare and such, eventually unionizing.
Yay! We pay TWICE for the LGBTQI Military!! YAY!!!
They just cut their pay.
I made 75.00 every two weeks
This is so wrong in so many ways. Damn the Democrats. Damn them to Hell! One and all.
And wait til they finish their enlistment and see how the VA treats them.
meanwhile... how much are they pouring into the kick-back scheme that is Ukraine?
The US expenditure for snap food stamps all of 2020 was $74 billion.
Food stamps didn’t exist in 1961 when my husband went in the AF.
I had no idea what a commissary was, but soon learned that what money we did have went much further there.
A few of the prices I remember...ground beef 32 cents a pound, it contained a lot of fat, but we were lucky to get it.
Issue bread was 10 cents a loaf, also coarse but edible.
Most importantly, we could get liquid Enfamil (that had to be diluted by half) for 18 cents a can.
I would always buy a 5 pound block of cheese too.
My friend/neighbor and I were both pregnant. Her husband was AF in food service and he would bring her home eggs and canned milk in his pockets.
Friend and I would often get together for lunch and share our resources.
One time her husband pocketed several steaks and they came over to our house and we had a cookout.
WIC did not exist but we made out OK.
The wisdom of getting married only when you can afford a family is the bottom line. A junior enlisted military member does not make a lot of money, and that’s an objective fact.
The solution is not to pay everyone enough so they can raise a family on a junior enlisted paycheck.
Ok, so not everyone follows this wisdom (in the military or out), so they get food stamps to help them out.
I don’t find this shameful, nor should the military recipient, who has an opportunity over time to be promoted to a higher pay grade that can better support a family.
My roommate at Fort Ord was a cook and had the keys to the mess hall for late night snacks (and sometimes cigarettes from the C rations when we ran out).
I am ex army… spend two weeks doing it at fort Stewart, then let’s talk.
Some people enlist after starting a family.
Twenty-some years ago, I was a private with a wife and baby. However, I never had to recieve public assistance. I didn’t have money for saving/investing, but we were ok.
Not everyone is as frugal as we were.
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