Family Serving Family
One Exchange core value, “Family Serving Family,” is much more than a catchy slogan for many of the organization’s associates. More than 85 percent of the Exchange’s 33,000 associates around the world are connected to the military.
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The largest gathering of children and families of America’s fallen military heroes came to Dallas for the annual Snowball Express Dec. 9 – 13. Snowball Express provides hope and new happy memories to the children of military heroes who have died while on active duty since 9/11. Each year, the organization brings children together from all…
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Puerto Rico is still recovering after suffering double blows from Hurricanes Irma and Maria. Power, water and other necessities have been in short supply. Delivering live Christmas trees to the island would be difficult, but the Fort Buchanan Exchange team and Logistics were undeterred as they worked hard to ensure customers had the merchandise they…
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The island of Puerto Rico was without electricity, running water and supplies since suffering a direct hit from Hurricane Maria on Sept. 20. Puerto Rico Exchange associates worked hard to make life better for customers and residents of the island, although they too were suffering.
Read MoreThanks to Food Court Manager Connie Brunson and her team, customers in Misawa AB’s terminal don’t go hungry.
Read MoreDeniz Barcala, manager at the Exchange’s Kleber Military Clothing Sales store and Wounded Heroes Service Center, meets many Soldiers and Airmen. On this particular day, she and her staff greeted World War II Veteran Anthony Grant, 97, who had flown to Germany to pin the sergeant’s rank on his grand-nephew Leonard Thomas. Grant also needed…
Read MoreExchange associate Rhea Aguon brings a unique and somber perspective to our core value “Family Serving Family.” The retail business manager in Kuwait/Jordan lost her brother, Army SGT Eugene Aguon, when he was killed in action May 16, 2013, in Kabul, Afghanistan, while escorting a NATO convey.
Read MoreUSAF Academy Logistics Assistant Bonnie Bonnin has more than 40 years of service with the Exchange, a true definition of family serving family. Bonnin has opened her home to, and sponsored more than 70 cadets since starting her career with the Exchange in March of 1982 at K. I. Sawyer AFB in Michigan.
Read MoreAs a military police officer at the PX in Bangkok, Thailand in 1973-75, Jack Wrightsil never thought he would one day work at the Exchange headquarters, much less appear in one of the pictures hanging in its museum.
Read MoreThe fact is, 11.6% (3,381) of Exchange Associates are Veterans of the Armed Forces. Some work side-by-side with you every day and you may not even know it. On this very significant Veterans Day in Exchange history, we wanted to shine a spotlight on 30 associates who have worn or still wear the uniform, and…
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