Robert Philpot
Darryl Porter did not grow up in a military family, but he did have a neighbor named Deon who was in the Army, which was how Porter first learned about the Exchange. “I looked up to him when I was a kid,” said Porter, senior vice president of Services & Food. “He would come back…
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On July 25, 1895—130 years ago today—the War Department issued General Orders No. 46, directing all Army commanders to establish “post exchanges” on their installations.
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After abolishing the sutler system in 1866, Congress authorized the establishment of post traders in 1867. Also in the late 19th century, officers at installations without post traders started social clubs called canteens. Both were precursors of the Exchange.
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On July 25, the Exchange will celebrate its 130th anniversary. But the seeds for what became the Exchange were sown more than 100 years before 1895.
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In 2002, Eric Boen joined the Exchange, working in Finance & Accounting while he was still finishing work on his bachelor’s degree. By 2003, he’d begun a series of deployments to Iraq, where he decided that maybe FA wasn’t where he wanted to be. “Your career is in your own hands,” Boen, now senior vice…
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