February 23, 2025
DOGE alert: our troops are being robbed and starved
By Mike McDaniel
On January 8 of this year, I wrote Does DEI require starving our troops?
It was a report on the shameful and evil starving of our troops at multiple military installations around the nation. Most chow halls were closed, and those few that were open were providing this sort of fare:
As I then noted, during my USAF days of the early 70s food was hot, plentiful and there were many nutritious choices always available to meet the needs of airmen working around the clock.
Was this lack of food due to lack of money? Was money intended to feed our troops being diverted to DEI? It’s well known a military runs on its stomach, and officers are taught from their earliest days they don’t eat until their troops are fed, so how could this possibly have gone on for so long throughout our military? No doubt, this contributed to badly depressed enlistment and retention.
We didn’t have answers then. With Donald Trump taking office and DOGE taking names and kicking asses, we now have at least some, and it’s worse than we could have imagined.
The Army is repurposing more than half of the money it collects from junior enlisted soldiers for food, according to data reviewed by Military.com. The numbers suggest that a large portion of those funds are not going toward feeding soldiers, a diversion of resources coming at a time when troops increasingly struggle to find nutritious food on base.
The money is collected in what amounts to a tax on troops -- taken from their Basic Allowance for Subsistence (BAS) payments, roughly $460 per month that is automatically deducted from the paychecks of service members who live in barracks and is intended to help cover food costs. For junior enlisted troops who earn about $30,000 annually, the cost can be consequential.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/02/doge_alert_our_troops_are_being_robbed_and_starved.html
