Words From the Director/CEO: Force Multipliers for Mission Success in 2025
The Exchange’s 2025 priorities are fully focused on maintaining the family, sustaining the family and investing in the family—being there with service members and their families, and making sure that they have the support required to achieve success.
Read MoreWe Go Where You Go: Watch a New ‘Tip of the Spear’ Video
See how the Exchange lived up to its “We Go Where You Go” motto in 2024.
Read MoreTop Winner, Four Main Store Winners Announced in Exchange Safety Awards
The Robins/Moody Exchange was the top winner in the Exchange Safety Awards, which were announced this week. The awards are presented to the Exchange and the main stores in four categories with the highest reduction in recordable accidents compared with the previous year. This award honors the work that management and associates do in making…
Read MoreExchange Credit Program Announces 2024 MILITARY STAR® Challenge Cup Winners
The top store for the year earned a $1,000 prize and the coveted Challenge Cup.
Read MoreService eLITe Champion Award, UROC Award Honor Top Exchanges in Services Operations and Food
The awards went to Exchanges who excel at serving those who serve and providing tastes of home.
Read MoreVideo: YOU Are a Force Multiplier Who Drives Mission Success
The Exchange’s Digital Media Networks team has produced a video that  highlights the Exchange’s many force multipliers for mission success.
Read MoreFour Stores Win COO X Award for Operational Excellence
Winners are selected based on criteria including earnings, MILITARY STAR® usage, gross margin return on investment and inventory variance.
Read MoreFour Stores Earn Director/CEO Cup, the Exchange’s Highest Honor
One Exchange in each size category (mega, large, medium and small) received the award, which goes to the top Exchanges worldwide.
Read MoreICYMI: The Week That Was in the Exchange Post
ICYMI, here’s a look at this week’s coverage.
Read MoreLearn How to Recognize and Avoid Scams Targeting Exchange Associates
A Federal Trade Commission report showed a 25% increase in consumers losses to scams in 2024 vs. 2023. Some of the most reported scams make Army & Air Force Exchange Service associates especially vulnerable
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Fort Belvoir Exchange Welcomes Senator to Veteran, Spouse Business Expo
A May 1 shopping event for Veteran and military spouse-owned businesses outside the Fort Belvoir Exchange attracted notable guests: Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Garrison Commander Col. Joshua SeGraves. Thirty businesses owned by Veterans and military spouses participated in the Veteran Business Expo at the Fort Belvoir Exchange. The event was held in collaboration with…
Read MoreExchange Heroes Recognized for Going Above and Beyond After Dallas Storm
Director/CEO Tom Shull is recognizing dozens of associates from IT, Real Estate, Merchandising and Human Resources for their around-the-clock heroic work after Winter Storm Uri severely damaged the Exchange’s headquarters in Dallas in February.
Read MoreICYMI: The Week that was in the Exchange Post
In case you missed it, here’s a look at this week’s coverage in the Exchange Post.
Read MoreGood News for Associates Participating in Flexible Spending Accounts
If you’re enrolled in a Flexible Spending Account (FSA), the recently passed stimulus bill has made some FSA changes that could work to your advantage. The bill, officially known as the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, increases the amount of unused balance that healthcare FSA participants can carry over from one year to the next.…
Read MoreMisawa Command Surprises Departing Exchange GM With Award
Before former Misawa Exchange General Manager Kristine Cowley returned to the States to become GM at the Nellis AFB Exchange, she received a couple of unexpected honors at her going-away party.
Read MoreCivilian Employees Celebrate New Exchange Privileges
The Exchange is honored to welcome the 575,000 DoD and Coast Guard civilian employees who can now shop at their local Exchange.
Read More12 Children of Exchange Associates Earn AREA Scholarships Totaling $40,000
The AAFES Retired Employees Association (AREA) Scholarship Program is funded through donations by generous benefactors. Each year, AREA awards $40,000 in scholarships to graduating seniors attending school in the fall. Scholarships are awarded based on the applicant’s scholastic honors and other recognition, school and outside activities, hobbies and special talents, letters of recommendation and an…
Read More125 Years of Family Serving Family – Gary Rose, HQ
A family connection brought Gary Rose to the Exchange. His Exchange family grew from there.
Read MoreICYMI: The Week that was in the Exchange Post
This week in the Exchange Post, COO Jason Rosenberg congratulated stellar associates with the May edition of Operation: Call Out; a freshly redesigned Exchange at Luke Air Force Base held its grand reopening; the Fort Bliss Exchange worked with garrison command to open a COVID vaccine site at Freedom Crossing; a Fort Drum Starbucks manager…
Read MoreExchange Supports Fort Bliss with COVID-19 Vaccination Site
The Exchange’s Freedom Crossing at Fort Bliss worked in lockstep with garrison command to set up a site at the shopping center for COVID-19 vaccinations. Fort Bliss garrison command approached Exchange General Manager Michael Brennan on April 26, and by April 29, a vacant 7,900-square-foot space in the shopping center was turned into a vaccination…
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