Posted on Apr 13, 2025
Pentagon Turns Focus to Potentially Privatizing Commissaries, Military Exchanges
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The Pentagon’s newest push to trim its workforce and spending could mean that on-base grocery stores and shops designed to save service members and their families money could ultimately be sold off to the private sector.
An April 7 memo signed by Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg listed a wide range of possible reforms aimed at "delivering maximum value to the warfighter." Among them included "all functions that are not inherently governmental (e.g. retail sales and recreation) should be prioritized for privatization."
The Pentagon’s newest push to trim its workforce and spending could mean that on-base grocery stores and shops designed to save service members and their families money could ultimately be sold off to the private sector.
An April 7 memo signed by Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg listed a wide range of possible reforms aimed at "delivering maximum value to the warfighter." Among them included "all functions that are not inherently governmental (e.g. retail sales and recreation) should be prioritized for privatization."
Pentagon Turns Focus to Potentially Privatizing Commissaries, Military Exchanges
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Privatizing military housing solved the problem of slow repairs by replacing it with some slower repairs, and other repairs not done but lied about, and hundreds of millions in fraud.
But this should work out just fine...
But this should work out just fine...
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