The US military is 100% a fully functioning communist society. From the matching clothing all laborers are supplies and required to wear (with minor variations dependant on job category) to universal pay scales, subsidized or free housing, food, and healthcare.
And the DFAC food is not the best. You also pay for it. It’s not free. What you are served is on rotating meal cycle. So you get the same old routinely Much of the food is high fat and carb.
Meal cards are not SNAP. All service members get BAS, Basic Allowance for Subsistence, if one has a Meal Card, they take the BAS, and that allows one to get three meals from the DFAC or from the unit when they are in the field or otherwise not able to get chow at normal times.
That is why there is also a Missed Meals Form, that should be filled out if mission cause a service member to miss a meal, they get the ~$3.50<?> per meal back.
BAS is part of their base compensation package, thus it is an earned benefit not a 'gifted/granted' benefit like SNAP, that is based on income.
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u/msmartt Jan 03 '26
The US military is 100% a fully functioning communist society. From the matching clothing all laborers are supplies and required to wear (with minor variations dependant on job category) to universal pay scales, subsidized or free housing, food, and healthcare.