Saturday, May 28, is National Hamburger Day, which aside from making #FlashbackFriday crave a bacon-cheeseburger inspires this look at the history of the burger in general and at the Exchange. According to the National Today…
Exchanges hundreds of miles away spent days cleaning up ash, and drivers had to navigate back roads at speeds as low as 5 mph because of the ashfall.
To commemorate National Physical Fitness and Sports Month, Flashback Friday is going back to 2009 when the BE FIT 360 program was launched.
This week’s Express seminar made Flashback Friday curious about the roots of the Express, which took us back to the ’70s and the beginnings of the Shoppette.
Seventeen years ago, the Exchange sponsored a special-edition Marvel New Avengers comic book, which was distributed free to troops and their families worldwide
The Exchange has a longstanding commitment to the sustainability that Earth Day promotes. Here a few key dates in that history.
“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.
Early April marks the anniversaries of two tornadoes that struck Wichita Falls, Texas, and Sheppard Air Force Base, 15 years apart.
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.
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.