Military shuts down fast food in Afghanistan - "It's not an amusement park"

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From here

Now knowing how badly suppliers rip off the military, for all I know the Pentagon's cost for a Whopper could be the same as a rocket launcher, but even so this seems sort of tough.

In the sprawling military base at Kandahar, the fast food outlets facing the axe include Burger King, Pizza Hut, and the U.S. chain restaurant T.G.I. Friday's that features a bar with alcohol-free margaritas and other drinks -- all set along the bustling "Boardwalk" area of the base.

The U.S. military says its beef with the burger joints is that they take up valuable resources like water, power, flight and convoy space and that cutting back on non-essentials is key to running an efficient military operation.
"This is a war zone -- not an amusement park," Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Hall wrote in a blog earlier this year.
"Supplying nonessential luxuries to big bases like Bagram and Kandahar makes it harder to get essential items to combat outposts and forward operating bases, where troops who are in the fight each day need resupply with ammunition, food and water."

I guess you don't get to be Sgt. Major without learning how to tell the difference between a war zone and an amusement park.

I think troops who are in the fight each day might like to know they can get a slice of pizza when they get off the front lines. I can only assume that they know that they're in a war zone. After 8+ years in Afghanistan, are our supply lines so fragile that we can't ship pizza and mortar rounds at the same time?

Not an amusement park? How are we going to break the news to Big Sarge?