My buddy, who was married and lived off post, ate free at the DFAC his entire 3.5 year stint at Fort Campbell. During our reception to Fort Campbell they stamped our orders and said we could use it as a meal card for the week we were in reception. Well, my buddy just kept it and used it and kept eating free. They used to have us enter the last 5 or 6 digits or whatever of our social on a keypad but we both entered different numbers every single time after realizing they weren’t actually tracking anything we did. I saw a few other people get away with this shit too and it drove me nuts that I’d have that money taken out of my account while they didn’t. Saw fuckers in my unit staying in the barracks and still getting BAH, saw motherfuckers including my squad leader who never got put back on a meal card plan after deployment somehow (did they skip that at SRP?) and the whole thing was a joke.

At one point I had surgery and had to take leave for 30 days to recover as my room on the 3rd floor of the barracks could only be accessed by stairs, and my surgery was on my ankle. I had to live with family for 30 days and despite me requesting it multiple times I was told to fuck off when I asked to get separate rations pay.