Military Commissaries: Justification as Fringe Benefit Needed, Consolidation Can Reduce Dependence on Appropriations : Report to the Congress |
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Page 31 - Staff, the Chiefs of Staff of the Army and Air Force, the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine Corps in overseas areas on attaché or mission aircraft.
Page 5 - Government should be in the business of providing for its personnel where they have the privilege and opportunity to go to a private place to buy.
Page 37 - ... Provided, further, That no appropriation contained in this Act shall be available in connection with the operation of commissary stores within the continental United States unless the Secretary of Defense has certified that items normally procured from commissary stores are not otherwise available at a reasonable distance and a reasonable price in satisfactory quality and quantity to the military and civilian employees of the Department of Defense.
Page 5 - An armed services commissary store regulation submitted to the subcommittee stated, "The establishment of commissary stores shall not be authorized in areas where adequate commercial facilities are conveniently available and sell commissary merchandise at reasonable prices' * * *." The chairman of the subcommittee advised the military departments by letter dated August 22, 1949, that the regulation represented the conclusions and decision of the subcommittee as reported to the House Committee on...
Page 6 - The committee fails to find any justification for the continuation' of * * * sales commissaries at military installations which are surrounded by or which abut metropolitan areas. » * * The committee also believes that at those military installations which are removed from metropolitan trading centers by longer distances, the operation of * * * sales commissaries should also be curtailed.
Page 38 - ... 1959 the Army recognized the changing conditions and recommended raising the percentage differential. However, the Air Force disagreed, stating that "any further instructions limiting the present criteria would jeopardize continued operations of our commissary stores." A DOD-sponsored study in 1969 concluded that probably no commissary would ever show less than a 20-percent differential between the commissary cost and the commercial retail price. The report on the study commented that, if present...
Page 6 - Our review discloses that, although competitive food stores are located near most military commissary stores in the United States, commissary stores have continued in operation and increased in number despite the statutory requirement since...
Page 7 - BIA by the Senate Appropriations Committee in its report on the Fiscal Year 19% Interior Appropriations Act.
Page 3 - FY 1979 at a minimum annual savings of $9.4 million once the conversions are fully implemented using the formula endorsed in the recent report to Congress from the Office of Management and Budget and Office of the Secretary of Defense. If the limitation in Section 852 is extended again, the Air Force will have to seek restitution of those 6000 spaces which have contributed to the Air Force's 9000 space reduction in FY 1979. Elimination of Statutory Restrictions on Women in the Military. The military...
Page 38 - ... be applicable to the majority of persons it affects. This criterion applies to only 40 percent of married active duty military personnel who reside in base housing. Over 60 percent of married personnel and all reservists and retirees live off base in civilian communities where, according to a recent grocery trade magazine survey, food stores are quite convenient. This survey of the shopping habits of families in the United States showed that over 70 percent of the families surveyed traveled no...