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25 Cents Arlington Hall Station
| Issuer | N.C.O. Open Mess, Arlington Hall Station |
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| Year | 1966 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | N.C.O. OPEN MESS Arlington Hall Station Arlington, Virginia EXPIRES 31 Jan. 1967 25 CENTS |
| Reverse description | Plain blue paper with no printed text or design; a pattern of punch holes arranged in two clusters is visible across the surface, consistent with a cancellation or validation mechanism used on mess vouchers. |
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Arlington Hall Station in Arlington, Virginia, was a U.S. Army signals intelligence facility operating under the Army Security Agency — later folded into NSA activities. Non-Commissioned Officer messes at closed military installations frequently issued their own scrip to keep canteen revenue circulating internally rather than leaking off-post. These notes had no legal tender status and were redeemable only at the issuing mess.
Military mess scrip from the mid-1960s rarely survived in quantity. Soldiers spent it, the mess cashed it out, and most was simply discarded at the end of a fiscal cycle.