WASHINGTON (Tribune News Service) — The Senate Appropriations Committee, in a report this week accompanying its new Defense spending bill, expressed concern over reports of thousands of military families suffering from hunger. “Studies have found that one in eight military families were food insecure prior to the COVIDhttps://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2021-10-22/hunger-food-insecurity-military-families-congress-3335864.html?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=EBB%2010.25.2021&utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Military%20-%20Early%20Bird%20Brief-19 pandemic and this number has now grown to one in five,” the report said.