We send a box of Grocery store coupons overseas each month. The commissarys except them for 6 months beyond their expiration dates. To our knowledge every base has an FSC (family service center) where the familys that are having a hard time with things, can go and sort through boxes of coupons. We send our to US Naval Support Activity in Naples Italy.
We have posted this previously, but it does help. All services are combined on one group of bases in Naples (Army, Air Farce, Navy, and Marines), with each service paying their members so differently, sometimes there are needs among the dependant families. While stationed there, my wife helped at FCS and taught other wives how to shop on the Italian economy.
I have been recently blasted for using too many 'generalities'. Allow me to say, some of us (like the Navy) would get extra pays for other things (like BAQ, BAS, Sub, Consub, Sea, FSP), whereas other services by policy dont pay those extra pays. Similairly could be said concerning Federal Tax exemption: During each 'conflicts theater' the tax-free zone comes and goes. Each service has different policys concerning tax-free zones as well. While I was tax-free starting in 1983 and ending in 2001. I know the Air Farce only allowed their people to become tax-free, when they were armed.
In either case, please do whatever you can. But dont forget the full-time military that has been serving us all for years.
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Galen
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We send a box of Grocery store coupons overseas each month. The commissarys except them for 6 months beyond their expiration dates. To our knowledge every base has an FSC (family service center) where the familys that are having a hard time with things, can go and sort through boxes of coupons. We send our to US Naval Support Activity in Naples Italy.
We have posted this previously, but it does help. All services are combined on one group of bases in Naples (Army, Air Farce, Navy, and Marines), with each service paying their members so differently, sometimes there are needs among the dependant families. While stationed there, my wife helped at FCS and taught other wives how to shop on the Italian economy.
I have been recently blasted for using too many 'generalities'. Allow me to say, some of us (like the Navy) would get extra pays for other things (like BAQ, BAS, Sub, Consub, Sea, FSP), whereas other services by policy dont pay those extra pays. Similairly could be said concerning Federal Tax exemption: During each 'conflicts theater' the tax-free zone comes and goes. Each service has different policys concerning tax-free zones as well. While I was tax-free starting in 1983 and ending in 2001. I know the Air Farce only allowed their people to become tax-free, when they were armed.
In either case, please do whatever you can. But dont forget the full-time military that has been serving us all for years.
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Galen
USN Retired and University of Life Alumni
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and some pictures from Iraq
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And a painting by one of the many who have served in other ways. . .
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