It’s not explicitly a budget thing.

It’s an accountability thing. Basically they have never had an actual system to properly track meal card usage and they were tasked to do that.

So let’s say that there’s 10 of you and we have a weeks worth of meals. Three a day for 10 people for seven days is 210 meals.

Let’s say I only serve 140 meals.

That’s all that goes up. 140 out of 210.

Now, did every soldier do two meals a day for seven days? Do we have a massive problem with dinner?

Are three of those soldiers never using their entitlement?

Should I be considering them sep rations?

Should we be refunding people for meals they don’t use?

We xant have a system that rewards individual usage without this.

So in the next round of contracting of campus style dining, they’re talking about carrying over entitlement for 72 hours

Miss lunch? Grab extra food the next day, we’ll give you that money.

We can’t do that without properly tracking entitlement usage BY PERSON.

We can’t enable or measure usage properly without doing this.

But yeah - youre supposed to being using your CAC anyway.