Vending machines selling ethnic hair care products may be coming to overseas military bases
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Beauty product vending machines by Sugar Intoxicated, a company based out of Williamsburg, Va., were installed this year at Lackland Air Force Base and Fort Sam Houston in Texas; Forts Lee and Belvoir in Virginia; and Fort Jackson, S.C. (AAFES)
YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan – Following their rollout at five stateside military bases, vending machines that sell wigs, eyelashes and ethnic hair products may be coming to Army and Air Force exchanges overseas.
Beauty product vending machines by Sugar Intoxicated, a company based out of Williamsburg, Va., were installed this year at Lackland Air Force Base and Fort Sam Houston in Texas; Forts Lee and Belvoir in Virginia; and Fort Jackson, S.C.
AAFES Exchange (Photo Credit: Stephen Baack, USAG Ansbach Public Affairs)
4 Jun 2021
YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan Following their rollout at five stateside military bases, vending machines that sell wigs, eyelashes and ethnic hair products may be coming to Army and Air Force exchanges overseas.
Beauty product vending machines by Sugar Intoxicated, a company based out of Williamsburg, Va., were installed this year at Lackland Air Force Base and Fort Sam Houston in Texas; Forts Lee and Belvoir in Virginia; and Fort Jackson, S.C.
Sugar Intoxicated and the Army and Air Force Exchange Service are eying more locations, including several overseas, based on the machines success stateside, AAFES spokesperson Chris Ward told Stars and Stripes via email Wednesday.
Okinawa coronavirus surge spurs further restrictions for American troops
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Buy PhotoTokyo reported 614 new coronavirus infections and six deaths on Friday, May 28, 2021. (Akifumi Ishikawa/Stars and Stripes)
TOKYO American military bases on Okinawa tightened their restrictions again Friday as the prefecture announced another one-day record of new coronavirus patients.
Meanwhile, U.S. installations across Japan reported four new coronavirus cases – three at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo and one at Kadena Air Base on Okinawa.
The island prefecture reported 313 newly infected people on Friday, the highest one-day count there of the pandemic, according to public broadcaster NHK and prefectural data. Though small by comparison to other prefectures, the spring viral wave on Okinawa is creating twice the patients of a surge in August.
The tours, which began in 2006 and happen only periodically, are a way for Japanese citizens to see what’s behind the barbed wire fence surrounding Tama Hills, the U.S. military-operated recreation area located on the outskirts of Tokyo.