U.S. soldiers travel in front of a dish hire at Kandahar Airfield May 14, 2009.
Credit: Reuters/Jorge Silva
KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Fast food joints where soldiers wolf down burgers and pizza will shortly be a thing of the past at bases in Afghanistan, as the U.S. infantry reminds soldiers they are at quarrel and not in "an party park."
In the sprawling infantry bottom at Kandahar, the fast food outlets confronting the mattock embody Burger King, Pizza Hut, and the U.S. sequence grill T.G.I. Friday"s that facilities a club with alcohol-free margaritas and alternative drinks -- all set along the bustling "Boardwalk" area of the base.
On any since day, the hulk square-shaped corridor facilities the surreal steer of soldiers sipping epicurean coffee and eating chocolate pastries with guns slung opposite their shoulders, whilst Canadians fool around ice hockey at a circuitously course and warrior jets rumble overhead.
The U.S. infantry says the beef with the burger joints is that they take up profitable resources similar to water, power, moody and procession space and that slicing behind on non-essentials is key to using an fit infantry operation.
"This is a quarrel territory -- not an party park," Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Hall wrote in a blog progressing this year.
"Supplying low luxuries to big bases similar to Bagram and Kandahar creates it harder to get necessary equipment to quarrel outposts and brazen handling bases, where infantry who are in the quarrel each day need resupply with ammunition, food and water."
Warning that concessions similar to Orange Julius, Dairy Queen and Military Car Sales were additionally on the exit list, Hall pronounced less-obvious changes were entrance as well -- together with fewer canned and bottled products entrance in to the nation as well as fewer first-run movie showings and a small party programs.
For now, fast food joints similar to Burger King that work out of small shacks along the Kandahar boardwalk are still you do sprightly business, with lines snaking outward their counters, but their contracts are not approaching to be renewed when they expire.
A multi-coloured organisation of alternative stores offered Afghan books, valuables and phone cards and the bustling Canadian Tim Horton"s opening that sells coffee and doughnuts will stay on.
Some U.S. soldiers secretly complain about the cutbacks, but others pronounced they were not worried by the new edict.
Those unfortunate for joy food regularly have the choice of the "Chef"s short order" territory at the dining halls, where boiled calamari rings, fish fingers and burgers are free for soldiers and accessible in abundance.
(Editing by Peter Graff and Jerry Norton)
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