why on military bases is the liquor store called a class VI store?

Answer 1

because its a luxury item... the military gives everything a catagory and thats what class six means "luxury item"

Answer 2

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why on military bases is the liquor store called a class VI store?

Answer 3

Military Supply Classes

Answer 4

As a military dependent, I always wondered about that myself.
Today there are ten classes of supplies. Class I being food and water. Class II being individual and unit issue (clothing etc.), and so on. Class VI is for Sundry/personal demand items, which includes liquors.

Answer 5

The United States Army divides supplies into ten Classes of Supply. The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) uses only the first five, which NATO allies have agreed to supply to one another based on a NATO Standardization Agreement (STANAG). The other classes of supply remain in national hands.


Class I - Rations - Subsistence (food), gratuitous (free) health and comfort items.
Class II - Expendables - individual equipment, tentage, organizational tool sets and kits, hand tools, unclassified maps, administrative and housekeeping supplies and equipment.
Class III - POL - Petroleum, Oil and Lubricants (POL) (package and bulk): Petroleum, fuels, lubricants, hydraulic and insulating oils, preservatives, liquids and gases, bulk chemical products, coolants, deicer and antifreeze compounds, components, and additives of petroleum and chemical products, and coal.
Class IV - Construction materials, including installed equipment and all fortification and barrier materials.
Class V - Ammunition of all types, bombs, explosives, mines, fuzes, detonators, pyrotechnics, missiles, rockets, propellants, and associated items.
Class VI - Personal demand items (such as health and hygiene products, soaps and toothpaste, writing material, snack food, beverages, cigarettes, batteries, alcohol, and cameras—nonmilitary sales items).
Class VII - Major end items such as launchers, tanks, mobile machine shops, and vehicles.
Class VIII - Medical material (equipment and consumables) including repair parts peculiar to medical equipment. (Class VIIIa – Medical consumable supplies not including blood & blood products; Class VIIIb – Blood & blood components (whole blood, platelets, plasma, packed red cells, etc.).
Class IX - Repair parts and components to include kits, assemblies, and subassemblies (repairable or non-repairable) required for maintenance support of all equipment.
Class X - Material to support nonmilitary programs such as agriculture and economic development (not included in Classes I through IX).
Miscellaneous - Water, salvage, and captured material.

Answer 6

It's an insider joke! Class Six on military installations is in reference to hazmat classification chart. In hazmat classes Class Six is POISONOUS MATERIAL! Now you know and knowing is half the battle! ;-)

Answer 7

In the Navy its still a package store...........................

Answer 8

Class six is a reference to hazard class division. If you look up hazard class six, it'll reference poison. Your welcome and IYAAYAS