Julie Mitchell
For the first time in its 122-year history, the Exchange is being featured in a national campaign focused on welcoming home all honorably discharged Veterans to their military family.
Read MoreJOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND – Airman Basic Alissia Bert browsed racks of jackets, shirts and pants at the Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland Exchange, looking for a special gift to send to her 3-year-old son, Darton, back home in Oklahoma City. Bert, 20, is in her seventh week of Air Force Basic Military Training. She hasn’t…
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300,000-Square-Foot Complex Delivers Name Brands, Exclusive Pricing to Burgeoning Military CommunityÂ
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The Exchange hosted Paul Cramer, deputy assistant secretary of the Army (Installations, Housing & Partnerships), at its West Coast Distribution Center, highlighting how the Department of Defense retailer’s logistics network has transformed to welcome home
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Leaders from the Army & Air Exchange Service, the 502nd Air Base Wing, U.S. Army Medical Command and Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston took the first steps in making a new $54 million Exchange shopping center a reality during a groundbreaking ceremony Oct. 13.
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To offer greater convenience to service members and their families and further strengthen funding of critical military Quality-of-Life programs, the military exchanges’ Exchange Credit Program is expanding acceptance of the MILTARY STAR card to Commissaries around the world. Leaders from the Defense Commissary Agency and the exchanges gathered at the Fort Lee Commissary, the first location to accept the card, to officially kick off the rollout during a ceremony Oct. 5.
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When civilian stores and restaurants in Hurricane Irma’s path closed or ran out of essentials, Exchanges across Florida were typically the last to close and the first to reopen, highlighting the organization’s unique capabilities and tireless dedication to serving those who serve.
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Store Manager Mickeal Jenkins has always had a servant’s heart. In April, his passion for serving led him to the tip of the spear in Poland, where he leads a team running a mobile field exchange (MFE) at Bemowo Piskie Training Area. Jenkins and his four associates keep the MFE filled with supplies, food and cold drinks to care for nearly 1,000 U.S. Soldiers serving with NATO’s Enhanced Forward Presence.Â
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For NATO’s Enhanced Forward Presence in Poland, reminders of home are close at hand thanks to a 53-foot-long Exchange trailer parked on the installation. Since late March, the mobile field exchange (MFE) has brought cold drinks, microwavable meals and supplies—even TVs and Xboxes—to U.S. Soldiers with Battle Group Poland just 100 miles from the Russian border.
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In early 2004, Mikel Hunter was a security guard in at Mainz-Finthen, Germany, standing watch over the gate near the housing area that was home to Exchange associates at the Europe Region headquarters in Wiesbaden. This July, Hunter’s career came full circle. Thanks to tenacity and leaders who believed in him, he’s now general manager of the Wiesbaden Exchange.
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