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…
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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…
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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.
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#FlashbackFriday: Remembering the Tuskegee Airmen
In honor of Black History Month, we remember first Black aviators in the U.S Army…
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#FlashbackFriday: How a Room for Soldiers’ Entertainment Evolved Into the Exchange
Borrowing an idea from the British military, an Army colonel opened a small military canteen…
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#FlashbackFriday: Betty White’s Connection to the Exchange
The actress joined the American Women’s Voluntary Services in 1941, driving a PX truck delivering…
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#FlashbackFriday: How the Exchange Provided Support During the Cuban Missile Crisis
For 13 tense days in October 1962, United States and the Soviet Union had a…
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#FlashbackFriday: Tracking MFEs Through Exchange History
Due to their high demand in assisting with Operation Allies Welcome (OAW), mobile field exchanges,…
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#FlashbackFriday: Some Slices of Pizza’s History at the Exchange
Pizza is very popular at the Exchange. But not so long ago, it was considered…
