[PatrioticCowboy]

This is sad.

These brave young men and women are risking all over there to protect our nation, yet they get stuck with their hospital food tab?

[PatrioticCowboy]

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[Mon]

My husband just emailed me this:
It only applies to married soldiers or higher ranking Sargents and Officers who are allowed to live off post and not in the barracks........see, when you are married they give you 8.10 a day for food in your paycheck. When I was married I had to pay to eat at the barracks, it wasn't alot, I think $1.00 for breakfast, $3.00 for lunch and I think $4.00 for dinner. If you are single, you don't get money for food in your paycheck, you have a meal card which you show at the barracks to eat. It makes sense even though it looks like they are getting charged for it.

[Humidston]

This is CRAP! When citizens are being squeezed for every last dime from the IRS, when Congressmen are getting massive pay raises every year or so, when Congress gets so many perks, when we pay through the nose, THIS IS CRAP to expect servicemen and women to PAY for their own food. Period!

[OldFriend]

Signed into law by Ronald Reagan early in his first term.

[Prodigal Son]

You can get in a lot of trouble over 'Seperate Rats' as this $8.10 per day food allowance is called. I used to know a lot of guys who received Seperate Rats but would still go in the mess hall and eat for free. Every once in a while the military cracks down on that and they get caught. I always preferred to pay the small amount for the meal. For a couple bucks you could get a humongous lunch in the mess hall. Hard to beat that for value. I also knew a lot of single Joes who didn't get paid a food allowance who would go and eat in the Burger King or AAFES snack bar daily. I could never figure that one out. They'd pass on all that free good food that was served in the mess hall and wonder why they didn't have any money at the end of the month.

The thing with this situation- if they didn't make the Joes pay for those meals in the hospital, they'd simply change the rules so Joe wasn't entitled to seperate rats during that time frame. Joe would end up paying for the food anyway.

[RaceBannon]

I spent a week in quarrantine for German Measles in 1978,Cherry Point Naval Hospital, North Carolina, never had a bill for food that I remember!