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Ban Tobacco Sales on Base

by Mitja on July 12, 2009

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 has [...]

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The End of the Virtual Commissary

by Mitja on June 27, 2009

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 commissaries [...]

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