The State - News from Feb. 18, 1987

The Army may try to claim its own piece of lottery turf. Lt. Col. Barry Berglund, of Washington, D.C., attended a convention of lottery officials in San Francisco over the weekend, explaining that the Pentagon is studying a proposal to sell $1 lottery tickets at overseas Army bases to help finance recreational activities for soldiers and their families stationed abroad. But there would be no millionaire soldiers under the plan. Berglund said top prizes in the military service lottery will be about $5,000, with most payoffs in the $2 to $25 range. Berglund, who is the Pentagon’s director of Future Initiatives for the U.S. Army Community and Family Support Center, said the secretary of the Army is expected to make a decision on the proposal sometime in the spring.