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Class IX – Repair parts and components to include kits, assemblies, and subassemblies (repairable or non-repairable) required for maintenance support of all equipment. Class X – Material to support nonmilitary programs such as agriculture and economic development (not included in Classes I through IX).
The Army & Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES, also referred to as The Exchange and post exchange/PX or base exchange/BX) provides goods and services at U.S. Army, Air Force, and Space Force installations worldwide, operating department stores, convenience stores, restaurants, military clothing stores, theaters and more nationwide and in more than 30 countries and four U.S. territories.
Class VI (U.S. Army), personal demand items (nonmilitary sales items) Class Six Stores sell alcohol, and related items, such as mixers, soda, cigarettes, and drinking cups. Similar items are found at the POST or Base Exchange, but the primary function of Class Six Stores on military installations is alcohol sales.
An exchange is a type of retail store found on United States military installations worldwide. Once similar to trading posts , today they resemble modern department stores or strip malls . The terminology varies by armed service; some examples include base exchange ( BX ), and post exchange ( PX ), and there are more specific terms for subtypes ...
Through the Army Simplified Dividend, garrisons receive 100 percent of profits from "Class VI" or personal demand supply items (such as health and hygiene products, soaps and toothpaste, writing material, snack food, beverages, cigarettes, batteries, and alcohol), 80 percent of pay telephone revenue, and 0.4 percent of all local AAFES sales.
The NATO Stock Number or National Stock Number (NSN) is a 13-digit alphanumeric code consisting of a Group of Supply, a Class of Supply and the unique NIIN to designate unique items of supply grouped by their relative catalog category. The first four digits are the NATO Supply Classification (NSC) or Federal Supply Class (FSC) code.
Class VI Store; Pizza Delivery; Filling Station; Barber / Beauty Salon; GNC; Department of Defense Dependents Schools - a K-8 School which opened on August 30, 2010; scheduled for closure in June 2016; Child and Youth School Services (CYSS) - a daycare for children under 6 years old and over; scheduled for closure in 2016
DeCA Headquarters in Fort Gregg-Adams, Virginia. The commissary benefit is not a recent innovation. Sales of goods from commissary department storehouses to military personnel began in 1825, when U.S. Army officers at specified posts could make purchases at cost for their personal use; by 1841, officers could also purchase items for members of their immediate families.