Government Shutdown: Obama's Golf Cource OPEN, Army Base Grocery Stores CLOSED

...Closures can seem arbitrary as agencies define what’s necessary for life, health, safety and safeguarding of property. 

While many functions at Army bases continue, commissaries in the U.S. are closed, forcing troops and their families to shop at local stores that cost about 30 percent more, Lieutenant General Raymond Mason, the service’s deputy chief of staff for logistics, said yesterday at a House hearing. 

“For the soldiers and their families, that’s very difficult,” Mason said. 

The Andrews Air Force Base golf course is funded through user fees and that’s why it remains open, said Air Force Captain Lindy Singleton, chief of public affairs for the 11th Wing at Andrews...

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