{"id":78229,"date":"2018-03-13T10:11:20","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T14:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=78229"},"modified":"2018-03-13T10:11:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T14:11:20","slug":"aafes-brings-back-magazine-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78229","title":{"rendered":"AAFES brings back magazine sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=78230\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-78230\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pmags-500x5001-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-78230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pmags-500x5001-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pmags-500x5001-472x333.jpg 472w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pmags-500x5001.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>AW1Ed sends us a link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/pay-benefits\/mil-money\/2018\/03\/12\/customers-protests-bring-high-capacity-ammo-magazines-back-to-aafes-shelves\/\">Military Times<\/a> which reports that the Army and Air Force Exchange Service, the PX system, will begin selling ammunition magazines which hold more than 10 rounds after announcing recently that they would not stock those items. Complaints from their customers influenced the decision;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Troops use these magazines, sold separately from firearms, to supplement the magazines they are issued. In addition, Guard and Reserve members said they need the magazines for training while they are not on active duty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m currently deployed with 30-round PMAGs that I purchased at the PX, why don\u2019t you trust us anymore?\u201d one customer wrote on Facebook.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, no shit. I mean, whose clientele has more actual need for those magazines than AAFEES? They want to be like Dick&#8217;s or WalMart, but they really can&#8217;t. The Marine Corps Exchange stopped selling the magazines in 2013, so AAFEES thought they should, too. Gumballs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AW1Ed sends us a link to Military Times which reports that the Army and Air Force &hellip; <a title=\"AAFES brings back magazine sales\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78229\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AAFES brings back magazine sales<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-army-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}