All I have to say about this is what took so long?:

Coming soon to a shoppette near you: Electronic tracking of all hard liquor sales on this U.S. military headquarters base, according to U.S. Forces Korea¿s data management office.

Already, the liquor sales at the Army and Air Force Exchange Service stores on main and south posts are entered into a computer at the cash register. A third computer system will be installed at the store inside the Dragon Hill Lodge in early September.

And when the military adds a fourth system at Camp Casey in Dongducheon, officials will have at their fingertips near-instantaneous records of half of the on-base liquor sales in South Korea, according to Air Force Lt. Col. Robert Hunt, USFK¿s data management division chief.

¿This will cover 50 percent of the volume of our sales,¿ Hunt said last week.

With the old system everything was tracked on paper receipts and it actually takes months before anyone receives notices that they went over their monthly limit.  So black marketers can target people who are within a few months of finishing their tours to buy alcohol for them.  Now that black marketers can be detected within days of purchase that should reduce the amount some.  Now if only they can invent a computer to detect corrupt AAFES employees doing black marketing as well.

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