the perspective of a military family . . . the narcissism of a blog
During our recent stop at Yakota Air Base in the suburbs of Tokyo, the kids and I visited the base commissary several times to load up on groceries. Yes, I took two small children to Japan and shipped canned tomatoes and Grape Nuts back to Singapore. It’s an OCONUS military thing, you might not [...]
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A report commissioned by the Pentagon and Veterans Affairs calls for ending tobacco sales on base. I was just talking about this with Elysia last week after I saw a young sailor loading up on cartons of cigarettes and tins of chewing tobacco in the Navy Exchange to bring back to the ship. The tobacco industry [...]
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In my last riveting installment, I requested a 3,286-mile grocery delivery from the Yakota Air Base in Japan. That was on May 3rd. In early June I got word that the Office of the Under Secretary Defense, in a memo dated May 20th, announced a new policy ending the use of the Military Postal Service by the [...]
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