The US Army is the reduction of millions of dollars that it has collected from the basic benefit for self -supply (BAS) pay for soldiers who live in Kazernes away from food services, according to a report.
The money is supposed to help soldiers with food costs, but one Military.com research Discovered that of the $ 225 million collected from the soldiers’ bass wage last year at 11 of the largest bases of the army, $ 151 million elsewhere was aimed elsewhere.
Soldiers hired received around $ 465 dollars every month in Bas, according to the Website of the US ArmyAnd the deduction, essentially a tax on troops, is removed, the outlet reported.
“It’s just back to the big pool of armies funds, and it is used somewhere else,” a civil servant said the outlet of the diverted bass wage in an interview that was planned by the Army Public Affairs Office.
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The US Army is more than half of the money that it collects on the basic benefit for self -supply (BAS) pay for soldiers who live in Kazerne, according to a report. (US Army National Guard photo by SPC. Matthew A. Foster)
The official, who asked to remain anonymous, had direct knowledge of the situation.
The Outlet study showed that all the bases they investigated-unable base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska and Fort Bliss in Texas-Meer than 50% of the money had sent away from feeding soldiers.
It is not clear what the diverted money is spent on.
Rep. Jill Tokuda, D-Hawaii, said the data should be investigated.
“Stealing food money from our soldiers is not how we achieve military readiness,” Tokuda told Military.com. “The fact that at least $ 151 million was collected from soldiers and was not spent on food, because the required requirements not only an immediate investigation, but quickly accountability.”
In 2020, rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio The issue raised the issue with the then poor secretary Ryan McCarthy during a budget hearing and said that the army is either wasting half of the food, or that the money is not spent on the food of the soldiers and it is spent on something for which it is not assigned. ”
Senior officers of the US Army serve the food for military staff in the dining room to celebrate Thanksgiving Day on the US Military Forward Operating Base (FOB) Camp Salerno near Khost on November 27, 2008 in the southeastern province of Khowst, Afghanistan. (Paula Bronstein/Getty images)
The question that just before the Covid-19-Pandemie Hit, was not followed.
Salaries and dining room infrastructure funds from the food employee come from a separate source, noted the outlet valve.
In recent years, the army has had difficulty offering meals to soldiers, reported the outlet and noted that the most extensive base, Fort Cavazos in Texas, only two of the 10 dining rooms opened in the summer of 2023 and last November, Fort Carson in Colorado was forced to serve soldiers meals of only limabons and toast.
Trainees in the US have lunch in the field while on September 29, 2022 in Fort Jackson in Fort Jackson in Columbia, South Carolina. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Some bases have also started serving pre -packaged meals of kiosks – which generally contained the exhaust found a lot of sugar and few proteins – a cheaper alternative to cooked dining room meals.
Spokesperson Major Andrea Kelly told the outlet that the number of meals was calculated “based on earlier head counts” in base rooms in the base.
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Civil servants in the past have pointed to a lower interest in dining room meals, because soldiers often do not report flesh, a lack of fresh ingredients and unparalleled meals that are served there.
Fox News Digital has contacted the army for comment.
