Obama plans to shut down all commissaries across the US

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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s comptroller and the Joint Staff have asked the Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) for a plan to close all stateside base grocery stores, in order to save money amid sharply falling budgets and preserve force readiness, according to military resale community sources.

Time will tell if this is just the loudest warning shot yet fired by a department desperate for budget relief, or if stateside commissaries, still enormously popular with military families and retirees, are viewed by current military leaders as a costly relic burdening a financially stressed force.

Under Secretary of Defense Robert Hale, the department’s top financial adviser, and Air Force Lt. Gen. Mark F. Ramsay, director of force structure, resources and assessment for the Joint Staff, reportedly requested the plan in a meeting with military personnel policy and commissary officials.

It was to be briefed soon to Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and Adm. James Winnefeld, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Unsat

One of the many benefits of living close to an active base is the ability to use the Exchange and Commissary. Sadly, in South Florida, those of us in the military do not have that privilege. I'm certain that there could be a way that commissaries can stay open while not being the "financial burden" they're being made out to be. Many military families (especially the junior enlisted) depend on these savings to make ends meet and feed their family.

What's even scarier is how they're talking about cutting pay and benefits to our troops. Do we really want to punish those who give so much of themselves to our country? I hope that more thought is given to this before they pull the plug.

 

[cluznar]

Forget feeding and clothing people, just make guns and bullets and send them out naked to fight.

 

[sepayne]

Instead of taking money away from where it is really wasted he just keeps doing stupid crap. Lets not cut the overpaid politicians salaries, wasted government expenditures or other things like prevailing wadges where it's not needed.

 

[jhunterusa]

Perhaps more money could be spent on new caps for the Marine Corps. Wait that is already happening. To bad they will look like a bell hop. The commissary sure kept a lot of folks with no transportation from having to catch a cab off post.

 

[maybejim]

Instead of taking money away from where it is really wasted he just keeps doing stupid crap. Lets not cut the overpaid politicians salaries, wasted government expenditures or other things like prevailing wadges where it's not needed.

Gotta save some money to give to those failed and failing "green industries" run by Dem supporters and BO friends.

 

[marquisg]

To me this is just another slap in the face of the U.S. Military and the president's attempt to destroy the military and the U.S.A.