Prostitution wasn’t rampant on the bases in Afghanistan. It was there, though. The running joke was the “Thirty Five Dollar Haircut.” The Army and Air Force Exchange Service or AAFES (Ay-feez) ran a Beauty Salon at the Post Exchange (PX) complex on Bagram Airfield (BAF). All of the girls who worked there were from Bishkek or Karshi Khanabad in the Kyrgyz Republic. Some of them were beautiful. You could get a haircut, a manicure, pedicure or a massage. For a month or so in early 2004, you could get a blow job. All you had to do was walk in and ask for the 35$ hair cut. Of course, it was illegal. As soon as they caught the girls, they fired them and sent them home.
At about the same time, the Army caught a young, pretty Airman selling it for fifty bucks a pop. This girl was caught in…
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