.U.S. military pulls plug on fast food restaurants on Afghan bases
According to U.S. military officials, fast food restaurants that offer soldiers in Afghanistan a taste of home, will soon be a thing of the past.
At the base at Kandahar, the Burger King, Pizza Hut, and T.G.I. Friday's that help line the facility's boardwalk, will be closed. The area is a popular gathering place, as American soldiers come to sip coffee and eat their favorite down-home meals each day.
The decision was made partly to remind military personnel they are fighting a war and are not on vacation.
Military representatives said the restaurants also expend valuable resources such as water, electricity and convoy space. Cutbacks of non-essentials are necessary to efficiently run a military operations, officials said Monday, April 5.
"This is a war zone -- not an amusement park," Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Hall said earlier this year. "Supplying non-essential luxuries to big bases like Bagram and Kandahar makes it harder to get essential items to combat outposts and forward operating bases, where troops who are in the fight each day need (to) re-supply with ammunition, food and water."
Hall also said a reduction of canned and bottled goods, entertainment programs and first-run movies is scheduled this year.
Before the plug of convenience is pulled for good, Burger King, T.G.I. Fridays and Pizza Hut will operate out of small shacks until their military contracts expire.
Comfort menu items like fish sticks, fried calamari and burgers are still available for free in the Chef's Short Order section of the base's dining hall.
Examiner
This has to be the single most outrageous insulting crap I have ever heard in my life.
At the base at Kandahar, the Burger King, Pizza Hut, and T.G.I. Friday's that help line the facility's boardwalk, will be closed. The area is a popular gathering place, as American soldiers come to sip coffee and eat their favorite down-home meals each day.
The decision was made partly to remind military personnel they are fighting a war and are not on vacation.
Military representatives said the restaurants also expend valuable resources such as water, electricity and convoy space. Cutbacks of non-essentials are necessary to efficiently run a military operations, officials said Monday, April 5.
"This is a war zone -- not an amusement park," Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Hall said earlier this year. "Supplying non-essential luxuries to big bases like Bagram and Kandahar makes it harder to get essential items to combat outposts and forward operating bases, where troops who are in the fight each day need (to) re-supply with ammunition, food and water."
Hall also said a reduction of canned and bottled goods, entertainment programs and first-run movies is scheduled this year.
Before the plug of convenience is pulled for good, Burger King, T.G.I. Fridays and Pizza Hut will operate out of small shacks until their military contracts expire.
Comfort menu items like fish sticks, fried calamari and burgers are still available for free in the Chef's Short Order section of the base's dining hall.
Examiner
This has to be the single most outrageous insulting crap I have ever heard in my life.
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