Flights from Ramstein support embassies in the Middle East. Customers e-mail their grocery orders from a catalog of commissary products. They can buy virtually anything sold there. Customers who buy food from Charleston get deliveries about once a month. The military pays for delivery costs.
Customers get deep-discount commissary prices.
Fry said cereal in Bolivia costs up to eight times as much as it does from the commissary airlift program. The commissary stocks items like baby formula that can't be bought in Bolivia, Fry said. And some food just isn't as good as the commissary items.