A new report says military families are relying more on food banks and other emergency aid, partly because military spouses lost their jobs or had their hours cut during the pandemic.
Cars line up at a March food distribution event at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio.
A new report says military families are relying more on food banks and other emergency aid, partly because military spouses lost their jobs or had their hours cut during the pandemic.
On a spring day at Fort Sam Houston - an Army post in San Antonio, Texas,a line of cars idled with their trunks popped open, waiting as volunteers unloaded 11,000 pounds of food from a semi parked nearby. Some of the drivers were soldiers who had just gotten off work, while others were military spouses or relatives.
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Army Staff Sgt. Rebecca Hummer carries food boxes from the San Antonio Food Bank to people s cars outside Fort Sam Houston s Vogel Resiliency Center in March 2021.
On a recent spring day at Fort Sam Houston, a line of cars idled with their trunks popped open, waiting as volunteers unloaded 11,000 pounds’ worth of food from a semi parked nearby. Some of the drivers were soldiers who had just gotten off work, while others were military spouses or relatives.
As they rolled forward to collect their rations, most barely cracked their windows volunteers say that’s common because people don’t want to be seen.
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