Since 2003, KBR has:
Served more than 937 million meals;
Issued more than 7 billion gallons of fuel;
Handled more than 335 million pounds of mail;
Washed more than 66 million bundles of laundry; and
Hosted more than 152 million visits to Morale, Welfare and Recreation facilities.
The soldiers are responsible for their own laundry. There are laundry rooms in the barracks. (Hubby is a 1st Sgt. He’s always complaining about the soldiers leaving the room a mess, leaving their laundry soap and cleaning supplies down there, and leaving their clothes unattended.)
There’s also a dry cleaning/mending business on every post called “The Pickup Point”. I used to work at one. We sent out the uniforms to a private contractor for dry cleaning. We did the uniform repairs, alterations and patch sewing ourselves. (Best job I ever had! Great manager.)
A base of any size is just like a city, it has almost everything you would need. If it closed the gates, it could go on operating, except for running out of some things of course.
I didn’t read all the answers, I hope I haven’t repeated any other post.