#FlashbackFriday: The First Earth Day and Key Exchange Sustainability Dates
The Exchange has a longstanding commitment to the sustainability that Earth Day promotes. Here a few key dates in that history.
Flashback Friday
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#FlashbackFriday: That Time a Lifetime TV Series Filmed at the Charleston AFB BX
“AAFES, the commissary and bowling [alley] are such a part of military life, and shooting on a military installation brings realism to our show,” an executive producer said at the time.
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#FlashbackFriday: A Tale of Two Tornadoes and Sheppard Air Force Base
Early April marks the anniversaries of two tornadoes that struck Wichita Falls, Texas, and Sheppard Air Force Base, 15 years apart.
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Flashback Friday: How the Month of the Military Child Grew Up
The monthly designation was made official in 1986 by Caspar Weinberger, President Ronald Reagan’s defense secretary, to emphasize the role military children play in the armed forces community.
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#FlashbackFriday: The Exchange in Vietnam
The Army & Air Force Exchange Service was active in South Vietnam from late 1965 until April 30, 1975, when the last associates were evacuated by Marine helicopters just before the fall of Saigon.
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#FlashbackFriday: 40 Years Ago, the Exchange Named its First Female Senior Vice President
For Women’s History Month, Flashback Friday once again remembers an Exchange female pioneer.
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Flashback Friday: The Exchange’s First Optical Clinic is an Eye-Opener for a Long-Range Vision
The opening marked the Exchange’s entry into the health-care services business.
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Flashback Friday: Remembering the Exchange’s First Woman Commander
In honor of Women’s History Month, Flashback Friday remembers Maj. Gen. Kathryn Frost, the Exchange’s first woman commander, who led the Exchange from August 2002 to April 2005.
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#FlashbackFriday: Operation Desert Storm Comes to a Close, and the Exchange is There
Throughout Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm—which ended in late February 1991—and beyond, the Exchange supported troops in Southwest Asia.
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#FlashbackFriday: The Battle of Iwo Jima—and the Exchange in the Pacific, Then and Now
On Feb. 19, 1945—77 years ago this weekend—Marines landed on Iwo Jima.
