National Fried Chicken Day was Thursday, but nobody said you can’t celebrate it (or keep celebrating it) today, or throughout the weekend. So Flashback Friday has prepared a bucketful of items about fried chicken in…
During the Revolutionary War—the American Articles of War enacted rules and regulations for “civilian traders [who] were given sales commissions to supply General Washington’s army with chewing tobacco, snuff, blankets, knives and other items of…
The Dan Daniel Distribution Center held its grand opening on June 24, 1988. Here’s some info about the DC and the person it was named for.
On June 11, 2003, the Exchange opened the first Burger King in Iraq. en days after it opened, it set a single-day sales record for Exchange Burger Kings.
June 9 is National Movie Night, which inspires this cinematic look back.
Guam has been in the news lately because of Typhoon Mawar. The island’s connections to the Exchange date back more than 100 years.
During World War II, exchanges were active in China, Burma and India, where they faced transportation challenges and other dangers.
On May 12, 1975—48 years ago today and less than two weeks after the fall of Saigon—Khmer Rouge forces seized the American container vessel SS Mayaguez and its crew off Cambodia’s coast. The Exchange was…
For Asian American and Pacific Islander Month, Flashback Friday looks back at the Exchange’s history in the Philippines—which consists of 7,000 islands. It’s a long history, dating back to 1903, when a PX opened at…
Although the Exchange had operations in Europe during the early days of World War II, the organization that most closely resembles today’s Exchange in Europe was born on April 24, 1943—80 years ago this month—when…
