ART,
Great write ups on the MPC's .. Do you collect any of the current military change /certificates issued to our freedom fighters overseas ???
The first issue of POGs that were used for monetary purposes· were released at AAFES facilities in Afghanistan at the beginning of 2002. They were valid at all AAFES facilities, but they do not have legal tender status and are issues of the AAFES and not of the Department of Defense itself (as were MPCs). Unlike MPCs all POGs issued to date have remained valid, and thus far there have been no C-days. Also unlike MPCs personnel are not paid in POGs. Thus
they function as light-weight small-change tokens, and they are used to make small purchases and to provide change at AAFES facilities. Once brought back to the states and used at any AAFES Facilities, they are destroyed.