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JustABozoOnThisBus

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6. If you're living off-base with your family

Reply to B Calm (Reply #2)

Fri Apr 17, 2015, 02:53 PM

Apr 2015

then your family eats what you can buy.

Where were you stationed that they gave you three meals a day?

After training, at my "permanent" post, I had to buy my own meals. Except when we left the post and went into the field, then the mess hall was free.

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