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10, Post Exchango Items. Regardingtho issue of post
exchange new and the establishment of ar, aaditional class
of supply for those items, the Chief Uuartcrmster stated:
I'One other difficulty has beeo the lack of a
clear cut golicy on the classification of articles
which are sold anC distributed through Army Exchange
facilities. This group of items could be
termed. as follows: Those items necessary to promote
morale and personal hygiene, which are pro-
cured by the Cuartermzster Service but which are
turned over in wholesale lots to the Army Exchange
Serviae, or to agencies such as the Kavy, Red
Cross, etc., for distribution and sales purposes.
These items have beensclassified both in this
Theeter and by the Zone of Interior in Glass I,
I1 and IV. There is no clear-cut official classi-
fication of these items. They presenG a special
probleln in that under sae circmtnnces they my
be issued as a daily or weekly ration, wPJle in
the majority of cases the items are distributed
througli sales facilities. They are procured,
stored and sold in buUc by the Luartermaster Service
to the Army Exchuiige. tinlike all other items
hwdled by this Service it is nut the responsibility
of the Luarterraster Service to insure their
delivery to the individual ccznsumer. For this
reason it is advistble to establish an additional
class of supply Isnorm as VX Itenis".
"The additional class of supplies should be
referred to simply as TX Items" aiid should be
defined as follows:
nnhose items , necessary to yromote moral e
and prsonal hygiene, whlch are proaured by
the Cuartermaster Service, but whioh are turnea
over in wholesale lots to the Army Exchange
Service or to other ageiicies slioh as the IL'avy,
Red dross, etc,, for distribution and scles
purposes. The sum items 1:" distributed gratuitously
b) the C,uarternas*uer Service retain
classification as a 'PX Iten'. 11
11. Concluslo-- Various inconslsteiicies and problems
arose throughovt-Ekii 1:uropean Theater of Operations, due to the
many interpretations of definitions of the olassea of supply.
12. Recomhiend~~Lc)q~. That appropriate aeencies of the
\/alar Department ennead pertinent kvar Department Field Uanuals
to standardize definitions far classes of supply in CoMormity
with the reaomndations submitted by the Chief (Luarterrcaster,
European Theater of Oprations. (Tar 7b, 80, 9 and 10).
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