End of an Era: Base Stores Will No Longer Accept Pogs
MOVIES: Angelina Jolie gets MLB an endurance test Page 16 No-hitters are becoming normal GAMES: The return of Page 48 Ratchet & Clank Page 19 MUSIC: Miranda Lambert’s set of campfire songs Page 29 stripes.com Volume 80 Edition 25 ©SS 2021 FRIDAY,MAY 21, 2021 $1.00 AFGHANISTAN End of an era: Base stores will no longer accept pogs BY J.P. LAWRENCE Stars and Stripes KABUL, Afghanistan — The paper coins, or pogs, that troops have used at stores and collected as souvenirs on overseas bases for the last 20 years are being phased out as the U.S. military leaves Af- ghanistan. Some stores have already stop- ped using pogs, which were given as change instead of nickels, dimes and quarters since 2001 at Army and Air Force Exchange Service stores. Signs at the seven AAFES stores that are still open on bases in Af- ghanistan encouraged people to turn in or use their pogs before JOHN VANDIVER/Stars and Stripes they are no longer accepted, An artillery team from Spain fires a round Wednesday during U.S. Army Europe and Africa’s Dynamic Front drill in Grafenwoehr, Germany. The spokesman Chris Ward said. exercise is part of the overarching Defender Europe-21 program. SEE POGS ON PAGE 4 Fine-tuning firepower 15 countries, 1,800 troops demonstrate NATO’s reach in US-led fires exercise in Germany Stars and Stripes BY JOHN VANDIVER “This, right now, is about fine-tuning our The few Army and Air Force Stars and Stripes ability to work together and working out the Exchange Service stores that are GRAFENWOEHR, Germany — The ground “This, right now, is about bugs now, so that in a crisis or conflict, we’ve still open on bases in Afghanistan shook in northern Bavaria as Spanish artillery- fine-tuning our ability to got that behind us,” said U.S.
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