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MARINE CORPS AIR STATION MIRAMAR, Calif. -- The Single Marine Program kicked off Commissary Awareness Month with a scavenger hunt, shopping cart race, and fly-bird competition at the Defense Commissary Agency Miramar, Calif., Aug. 25, as a way to raise awareness of commissary options provided by the commissary for Marines living in the barracks.
Each year the SMP, in cooperation with DeCA, creates a list of activities and events for service members to participate in while learning about opportunities provided by the commissary geared toward barracks life. Activities included in the month’s events are a microwave cooking class, a sushi rolling contest, and a blindfolded grocery scavenger hunt.
“The Single Marine Program chooses to promote the commissary because they actually have a lot to offer single Marines, like grocery lists, low costs and quality customer service,” said Johanna Jones, the SMP coordinator. “The commissary gears a lot of things toward single service members, like portion size and foods easy to cook in the barracks as well.”
Each week in September, the SMP hosts an event to promote another aspect of the commissary’s benefits while Marines compete to win t-shirts and commissary gift cards. Single Marines and sailors from various units on base also compete for a chance to win money for their units through maximum participation.
For more than five years DeCA and the SMP have been spending one month a year introducing Marine Corps Air Station Miramar’s single service members to the multiple benefits of grocery shopping on base.
Each event is located at the commissary or The Great Escape, and has approximately 200 to 500 single Marines and sailors in attendance. The number increases at each event as the month goes on, explained Jones.
“We do the commissary promotion as a way to improve the lives of Marines by showing them things available to them on base,” said Sgt. Derek A. Zobler, the SMP president and a Northridge, Calif., native. “Plus, we give them a chance to win prizes at the same time which is always fun.”
Upcoming chances for these prizes and information giveaways will be available Sept. 8 and 15 in front of the commissary.
For more information on commissary awareness events or to volunteer for upcoming activities contact Joanna Jones at the SMP office 858-577-6283.
| Date Taken: | 08.25.2011 |
| Date Posted: | 08.30.2011 13:10 |
| Story ID: | 76178 |
| Location: | MARINE CORPS AIR STATION MIRAMAR, CA, US |
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