This will be extremely difficult on troops depending on the base. If you live on base and that base is remote then gas is going to add a bunch to cost. Then you also have to factor in refrigerated/frozen items then it becomes a large hurdle.
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This is the sort of thing that might induce a mutiny
Commissaries aren't troops sole source of food. They'll just go off-base and slum it with their fellow Americans or have to acknowledge their host cultures overseas.
Not getting paid is a much more serious issue.
Commissary groceries are subsidized, it's going to have a pretty big impact. Not only will they have to go off-base, it'll be a lot more expensive.
Coupled with the not getting paid part...lmao
As a single person, almost never used the commissary for myself. Almost only to get milk and formula for civilian friends. But my married friends used it exclusively.
Grunts and young officers are also notoriously bad with money, which is why every base has two Challenger and ten truck dealers outside it.
Yeah, they'll have to slum it like the people whose communities they occupy instead of getting their preferred pricing at the government-run markets while complaining about socialism and entitled civilians.