Largest Overseas Military Commissary Opens On Camp Humphreys
For soldiers stationed at Camp Humphreys they now have the honor of shopping at the US military’s largest overseas commissary:
The U.S. military’s largest overseas commissary officially opened for business Wednesday at the Eighth Army’s new home on the Korean Peninsula.
The $15.1 million, 89,491-square-foot store is four and a half times the size of Camp Humphreys’ old commissary, which had reached its limit in supporting a population that has ballooned from 7,000 to 26,000 and will soon peak to more than 40,000.
“This is the best commissary I’ve ever seen and I’ve been around for a long time,” Eighth Army commander Lt. Gen. Michael Bills said during a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday. “This is a work of art.”
As shoppers checked out the store for the first time, a taekwondo demonstration team kicked wooden planks in front of stacks of pudding boxes and South Korean girls in traditional dress danced in the aisles. [Stars and Stripes]
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What’s going on with Red Cloud and Casey? Commissary, PX, WR, stuff like that?
I know it’s supposed to be a deployment area, but they spent a lot of money upgrading the pool and other things. Hate to find out they filled it with sand…
Red Cloud is closing, most likely be vacated by winter 18-19. Casey will be there for a while; however, area 1 is a dependent restricted tour for soldiers and GS employees. (So basically Casey commissary will survive off the black market trade….)
Humphreys will have the latest black marketing availability and selection on the Pen. Nice.
It opened just in time, Stripes just ran an article about how the commissary “benefit” is at risk due to falling sales. I am sure DECA will welcome all shoppers at the Hump, to include the black marketeers….
Rocky, you seem unhappy…
They always spend money on an ID checker but the black marketers are invariably always little meat loving Grandmas with ID cards.