Full Time Retired Military
Can any of you give us some in sight on being FT RM, like are you using military bases (monthly, weekly) State/Fed Parks, private. Are you in a 5th wheel, Class A, something else. Hubby has got the i...
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Larryzv7 wrote:
Roy & Lynne, the commissaries did take a big hit with that so-called “sequester,” and most of them have already stopped having “case sales,” which I used to look forward to for stocking up on things at a reasonable price. It would not surprise me, with all of the budget cutbacks and the commissary being part of the DOD budget, if some commissaries did close.
I’m told that Sam’s Club has discount membership for military veterans, and if the commissaries close I probably will be going more to Costco and Sam’s Club. It is my understanding that BX/PX’s are for profit organizations and are run under a different budget than the commissaries. I recently learned that BX/PX’s started out as on base trading posts back in the 1800’s.
I thought the commissary was a self supporting agency as well... not so much for profit as break even, hence the five percent surcharge that is supposed to be used for facility upgrades and such.
