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I am an average american and I am not used to those things. I go to work, and then I go home and cook a meal for my family.
So then why do they need my tax dollars if they have all these lucrative deals with multinational billionaire companies? Although, this is beside the point that I don't think any part of the U.S. Military should be "making money." JFC
Why? I find that those establishments are neither healthy nor economical compared to a basic vegetables and rice meal.
Then I would expect the bases to have facilities that reflect this fact. That is proper logistical thinking, after all.
This is an entirely different problem. Why is your assumption that the base desire is for fast food and not out of a perceived more palatable alternative of a not shitty mess hall?
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/survey-shows-how-often-americans-dine-out/
There are other surveys with similar results, but the average American doesn't do what you do, so, in this regard, you aren't average.
The way you think things should be, and the way they are aren't the same. I agree with you, our military shouldn't be making money. However, in a capitalist society we provide our military service members and their families amenities.
Cool. Teach all our soldiers and their families how to do that, or convince the military to.
They do. They're called restaurants.
There are also contracted entertainment venues, banks, grocery stores, gas stations, etc. Should each military base provide their soldiers with unlimited gas to get around in their person vehicles, or are you okay with the gas stations? The better solution to that problem would be to upgrade public transportation, but I'm not going to get on a public forum and whine about gas stations on military bases in a society full of cars.
Because I have actually worked on a military base with soldiers. I didn't say that their desire was for fast food. I said it was for basic services that they are used to and that are available to citizens outside of military bases. As I said before, you are complaining about a symptom of a much larger problem.