No More Midnight Meals for Marines at Camp in Afghanistan

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NRO/The Corner:

 

Lindsey Grudnicki

May 31, 2013

 

As of June 1, Camp Leatherneck in southwestern Afghanistan will close its 24-hour sandwich bar and stop producing the hot meals traditionally offered during the midnight-ration service. According to NBC News, Marine Corps lieutenant colonel Cliff Gilmore explained that the scaling down of services will allow for food workers to return home before the people who provide the security for those services.

 

Rather than offering a hot meal to troops beginning or ending their shifts at midnight, the base will now only provide a Meal, Ready to Eat, known as an MRE.....(Snip)

 

Gilmore wrote that the reduction in hot meals is a natural outcome of the drawdown process unrelated to sequestration or the ongoing going budget issues, but Marines and their family members believe that cuts should be made in other areas instead of imposing a limited menu on hungry, hard-working soldiers.

 

 

 

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