Watch Now! Top Tips from the Experts on How to Increase New MILITARY STAR Accounts

The MILITARY STAR_® program delivers savings and benefits to Warfighters and their families while reducing costs to the Exchange. We asked some of 2020’s top-performing MILITARY STAR associates to share their tips for increasing new MILITARY STAR accounts – watch the video to see their recommendations.

From all the experts, the No. 1 tip is clear: ask every customer, every time. Click on the video link above to hear more of their top tips.

Last year, Exchange associates helped 55,000 members of the military community acquire a MILITARY STAR card in stores to start saving money and earning rewards. The top 25 associates who processed the most approved applications in 2020 accounted for more than 10,000 new cardholders last year—more than 18% of all in-store applications.

Congratulations to the top 25 associates in MILITARY STAR acquisitions for their hard work in strengthening the Exchange mission!

John Dickson, Fort Belvoir – 1,560 new accounts

Doreen Baluka David, Fort Gordon – 855 new accounts

Gloria Hutchinson, Schofield Barracks – 827 new accounts

Josefina Curry, Fort Bliss – 687 new accounts

Miyong Davis, Joint Base Lewis-McChord – 616 new accounts

Gladys Clibrey, Fort Campbell – 428 new accounts

Gareth May, Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston – 351 new accounts

Betty Ferrer, Hale Koa Armed Forces Recreation Center – 349 new accounts

Sally Green, Offutt Air Force Base – 336 new accounts

Anita Langhorne, Fort Polk – 331 new accounts

Grace Bernardino, Hale Koa Armed Forces Recreation Center – 328 new accounts

Demetria Wheeler, Fort Lee – 320 new accounts

Carmen Quinones, Fort Sill – 319 new accounts

Lorna Beavers, Joint Base Lewis-McChord – 309 new accounts

David Mroczkowski, Kaiserslautern Military Community – 301 new accounts

Luz Ferraren, Joint Base Langley-Eustis – 292 new accounts

Vanessa Jeanphilippe, Fort Gordon – 278 new accounts

Gabriela Mills, Camp Humphreys – 277 new accounts

Nauwatha Battle, Fort Gordon – 271 new accounts

Judy Smith, Fort Lee – 263 new accounts

Migdalia Ruiz Campbell, Fort Lee – 258 new accounts

Heather Daniels, Fort Leonard Wood – 255 new accounts

Wilma Allbritton, MacDill Air Force base – 247 new accounts

Stephanie Aguirre, Fort Leonard Wood – 238 new accounts

Yamillie Negron, Fort Buchanan – 232 new accounts