Flashback Friday
In October 1992, the 212th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) unit was alerted for deployment to Zagreb, Croatia’s capital, in support of Operation Provide Promise, a U.N. relief mission to aid refugees coming into the country from Bosnia-Herzegovina. Almost simultaneously, Exchange Europe received a request for support of the 300-member unit. Planning began immediately and…
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On Oct. 5, 1992, the Exchange debuted an internal TV network called Business Television, better known as BTV. The initial broadcast went out to nearly 120 stores and distribution centers.
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This week marked the 24th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Here’s how the Exchange responded–in New York, at the Pentagon and elsewhere.
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The Keesler AFB Exchange, on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, took the biggest hit, but there were other effects on the Exchange, including at some stores that weren’t touched by the storm.
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Thirty-one years ago, i troops were deployed help fight forest fires in Montana, Idaho and Washington. Soon after they arrived, the Exchange was also there.
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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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