Federal employees will get a four day weekend around Christmas this year. While the event at Arlington National Cemetery — and other cemeteries across the country — will look different, Wreaths Across America "will meet the challenge." Nearly 600,000 DoD civilians would get new shopping privileges. Mail your packages and letters overseas after the election and the crush of absentee ballots. Will changes in the commissary benefit over the last three years bring customers back? In spite of hurdles, disabled veterans are using their new commissary benefit. Commissaries are expanding ways to make it easier for customers to shop, in the pandemic and beyond. Will veterans and veteran caregivers with new shopping privileges have to leave their spouse at the gate because of a base's policies? It depends. Stores are ready to keep shelves stocked. Some customers being double-charged user fees Load More