The Exchange at 125: The Exchange in Vietnam
In 1965, the Army & Air Force Exchange Service took over a handful of PXs from the Navy in Vietnam the day after Christmas. At the height of the war in the late 1960s, the…
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125 Years of Family Serving Family – Petrice Gonzales, SAM, PZ/ODL, Fort Lee
One in a series honoring the Exchange’s 125 years of family serving family. When Petrice Gonzales started at the Exchange 31 years ago, working in the fashion department was a great fit because she had…
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125 Years of Family Serving Family – Maria ‘Nancy’ Luke, Joint Base Langley-Eustis
One in a series honoring the Exchange’s 125 years of family serving family. Maria “Nancy” Luke will always remember how she came to work at the Exchange. “When I walked into the shoppette, I met…
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The Exchange at 125: Exchanges Have Come in All Shapes, Sizes
In its 125-year history, America’s Warfighters could always rely on the Exchange to be there for them, regardless of whether the “stores” were tents, pack mules, bamboo huts, mobile trucks, boats, choppers or spacious modern…
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The Exchange at 125: Outfitting America’s Heroes
Throughout most of the Exchange’s history, troops could buy military uniforms in the main stores, but the Army and the Air Force also carried them in their own outlets. To cut costs and combine operations,…
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The Exchange at 125: Horseback Riding Schools, Drive-In Theater and Merry-Go-Round
Throughout its 125 years, the Army & Air Force Exchange Service has offered just about any kind of service customers wanted. During the 1950s, Exchange concessionaires at Fort Hood and Fort Huachuca operated horseback riding…
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The Exchange at 125: Exchanges of Today Aren’t the Ones of Yesteryear
Throughout the Exchange’s history, main stores—post exchanges, base exchanges, PXs, BXs, whatever the troops called them—have changed from rudimentary tents and not-so-well-lit rooms to the most modern shopping malls that rival those in the private…
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The Exchange at 125: Ensuring a Sanitized Shopping Environment During COVID-19 Pandemic
Never before in modern history have Exchange associates faced anything as ominous as the COVID-19 virus, but they remained committed to the well-being of shoppers and themselves. Beginning in March, they began wearing required facemasks.…
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The Exchange at 125: The Battle of Brisbane
On April 5, 1942, the first PX in Australia opened in Brisbane as hundreds of American Soldiers arrived during World War II. Tensions between Australian and American Soldiers began simmering almost immediately because the Americans…
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The Exchange at 125: Our First ‘Store’ in Afghanistan Was a Tent
On Feb. 9, 2002, at Afghanistan’s Kandahar AB, associates Ralph Henderson, Billy Hullender and Larry Reimann opened the Exchange’s first store in that country: a hastily constructed tent. They welcomed a seemingly endless line of…