Are Meal deduction just an excuse to profit off soldiers?

If you are a meal card holder, which is a regulation requirement for all single soldiers living in the barracks, then you are not having any meal deduction, as a meal is being provided by the government. If you actually do the math, and actual cost of dining out all 3 meals per day, then you would realize that you are making out like a bandit by having the defac - as for your dfac being closed on weekends, it is standard policy for the posts dfacs to rotate weekend chow between the tenant units, there is ALWAYS a dining facility open, there will always be a meal provided, the Government promises a meal will be provided, they do not promise convenience. get off your lazy ass and utilize it. I cannot believe that a soldier, who regularly gets his week ends off, is complaining about the cooks, who start their days at around 0300 to provide you breakfast, having a few weekends off as well. Entitlement at it's finest.

Honest Truth - I ate breakfast at the dfac my entire career, where else can you get an Ham and cheese omelette, hash browns, sausage or bacon, biscuit&gravy, 2 pancakes, and assorted fruits for $2,50.

SPC (Join to see) so you draw BAS and they deduct for meals served to you or are you a meal card holder? If the desire was to "make a profit" the insidious Army illuminati are betting on the wrong horse. There is no S1/DOL vacation to the Caymans based on meal deductions that are directed by regulation. The meal rates are centrally directed by HQDA.

There is not a DFAC available on weekends?. I find that hard to believe. It may not be preferred or close but there is 7-365 DFAC coverage. Installations frequently serve brunch vice lunch and breakfast on the weekends and holidays. The installation and tenant units ensure coverage. I can't look it up for you as your profile doesn't have an information posted on it. It is usually posted at the DFAC, on line, and in unit areas.

To go plates: technically they are there for operational requirements, they have turned into a convenience item. The To go plates were not put there for people to take back to their fortress of solitude and muse about their place in the cosmos. The food is planned, prepared, and served in a manner that it is to be consumed at the DFAC.

Avenues you can take:
- quality/quantity of food served: go to the Dining Facility Advisory council meeting with specific instances. Stay away from "always" and "never" in your comments. Make recommendations to fix the problems. All menus are approved by a dietician and meet calorie requirements in the regulation. The menus and recipe cards are standardized Army wide. The raw ingredients are standardized, quality controlled and provided in one of the most regulated contracts I've seen by a prime vendor. If the issue is there the Food Service tech needs to get with Installation Subsistence and the KO to remedy. When DFACs run out of food, it's because the headcounts have become unpredictable. There is a production control aspect you just can't magic your way out of. How do you fix that? People need to consistently use the DFAC.

- go to other unit DFACs. See how they are. Provide constructive feedback through the Advisory Council to improve it based on best practices of others.

-observed food safety issue: professionally raise the issue with the DFAC Manager or lead cook (NCO). Undercooked, off temperature, cross contamination, etc.

It's not a meals deduction. Its that you eat for free at the DFAC, so you are ineligible for a tax-free basic allowance for sustenance. Fill out a missed meal voucher and stop crying. Welcome to being in the Army.