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I will be bringing this up the chain.  Thanks for the info, I'm glad to know that once in awhile, things can be done. Because we get off at 1800 on days, and the mess closes at 1830, we often end up with the 'leftovers'...  Old fries, monte crisco fried sandwiches from 2 hours prior, no dessert...

I'll be getting into a pmq next year...  I have a 10 month TD in the US to do, as well as an overseas tour or two, so I don't want to pay for a Q or apartment if I'm not there for that long.  Things will be fine after that, it's just until then. We aren't allowed appliances in the room, but in...

Then that means someone screwed up when they told us we weren't allowed to eat lunch in the mess.  I definitely have to bring this up the chain, seeing as there are living out guys who would like box lunches, and some of us do wake up at lunchtime, and would like to eat the meal that we are...

When I was on WASF for Maple Flag in Cold Lake, we had to eat box lunches as well, and I asked for no dairy, because we had no way to refrigerate them at the posts, and without fail, every one of them had cheese on the sandwiches, and cheese and crackers in it.  The vegetarian meal also had ham...

You can ask for a vegetarian lunch, or any sort of specialized diet, and I ask for the veggie lunches as often as I can.  They're not filling, but at least it's more than a Jos Louis, 2 ham sandwiches, 2 juice boxes and an orange.  There is no 'healthy choice' box lunch though.  I would much...

Every friday is deep fried fish day.  Even the healthy or vegetarian choices are often deep fried.  One can only eat so many sandwiches.

But 12 hours is our normal duty period, does that make a difference?

Only living-in personnel are entitled to night shift box lunches.  If the living-out personnel were to request them, they would have to be paid for by the unit, and the unit won't do that, seeing as they're living out, there's no reason they can't bring a lunch.  We're already paying for them...

No, they don't.  We've been told that we are paying for the box lunch, hence why we're not allowed to eat lunch at the mess on the days that we're given a box lunch.  I'd like to think that if it were 'free', as Vern said, everyone would be getting one, not just those of us on rations strength.

I am not entitled to eat meals only when I am working.  I am paying for three meals a day on this card, so if what you said is right, that box lunches are free, than I should still be entitled to wake up and go eat lunch.  Otherwise I'm only getting my two meals that I'm paying for.  Yes...

I said what was quoted... No one has been told that they are being re-linked.  No one.  There are people who have gotten here after I did, who weren't forced on rations as well, I've been asking around today.  Hey, it's my taxes too, and also my $427 a month.  It would be cheaper for you, and...

Sorry, I've just now re-read that, I thought the poster that posted it was referring only to the claiming meals part, I didn't notice the other part until just now. So now I wonder, why have they only enforced this on a few of us?  The guy beside me doesn't have to pay rations, he pays cash...

Yes, I've seen this paperwork, but they're not letting us work it that way.  Because the staff lets us come in late, and then leave early to go eat, it's not like we are "unable" to make the mess hours.  SUcks for them, but yes, they let us go, so I can't use this excuse. 

This is definitely new.  The only paperwork at all, that has shown up here, was a random email printed out that said they were considering putting everyone in shacks on rations, and those de-linked, would only be able to do so for a 3 month grace period.  This was last year, and it's all that...

None taken, I read your post as more hostile than you intended....  :salute:

If there were CFAO's etc for Trenton out on this, I wouldn't be asking for options.  I said nothing had come down yet, which is why I'm trying to see if there's something I can do.  Thanks, but when I compose a memo which I expect to be taken seriously, I make sure to research it.  Hence what...

A few of us had brought it up to the chain, and got the old 'nothing we can do, talk to the kitchen' thing, but of course, the kitchen isn't in my chain, so that's doesn't work.  I'm going to try and send up a memo, referencing the lack of a regulation for this.

Without getting into too many details, I own a vehicle, and I am also paying off a student loan from when I went to college, and my debt is being paid off, until it is, I can't afford a place of my own.  This isn't an issue of "people shouldn't live in shacks if they don't like the way it's done...

That's likely what will happen when I get back from course next year.  (8-10 months on course, I don't want to be paying for an apartment and not living there)  The only thing is, unless you find a furnished place, someone has to buy furniture, appliances, etc, and right now that's just not a...

The $427 is only the rations.  I also pay $208 for my 10x12' room here, which I can't complain about, because even to rent a room in a house with others, you're looking at $400 a month.  And get this... the male's building has free internet, while I had to pay to have mine installed and pay...