Exchange History Articles
Fairbanks Dental Clinic, which opened at what was then Fort Hood, increased convenience for military families who previously had to go off-post for routine care.
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Pat Wood, the main store operations manager at Fort Hood at the time, earned the nickname “Granny Rambo” after she volunteered to the troubled East African country in February 1993.
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In 2004, the Exchange launched an ambitious plan to deliver military Exchange Global Prepaid Phone cards to U.S Military men and women serving in support of Operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom.
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The Wyoming installation has been an Air Force Base for more than 70 years. But its history goes back to before there were airplanes.
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New Guinea was one of many South Pacific locations where the Army Exchange Service opened PXs to support U.S. troops in World War II.
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On April 25, 1994, an EF-4 tornado struck Lancaster, a Dallas-area town not far from Exchange headquarters. One associate who was affected by the storm–and is still with the Exchange–shares her memories of how teammates helped her family out afterward.
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Although the Exchange does not currently sell vinyl albums or CDs, it once had its own record store and record-distribution center in addition to record departments at stores worldwide.
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A 28-year-old cafeteria manager saw an opportunity to launch a service that provided food for flights Tachikawa Air Base in Japan. He remained involved with the catering service until 1996, and the service still exists today.
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April 9 will mark the 82nd anniversary of the beginning of the Bataan Death March, the forcible 65-mile march of 60,000 to 80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war to Japanese confinement camps throughout the Philippines during World War II. More than 1,000 Americans and 9,000 Filipinos died during the march. One of the POWs…
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