#FlashbackFriday: A Whole Latte Pictures for National Coffee Day
Sept. 29 was National Coffee Day, but rather than believe that is a day late, #FlashbackFriday would like to propose that every day is National Coffee Day.
The Exchange has offered coffee throughout its history, but things have gotten fancier through the years, with the addition of Starbucks, Dunkin’, Seattle’s Best and more, as well as the coffee and coffee beverages offered at Expresses.
Here’s a photographic, caffeinated look back.
Troops line up outside the post exchange coffee shop at the Foggia Airfield Complex in Italy in 1944. The Foggia Airfield Complex was World War II airfields used by the U.S. Army Air Force to strategically bomb Nazi Germany in 1944 and 1945.
A long way from iced lattes: The post exchange coffee shop at Fort Richardson, Alaska, in 1947. Fort Richardson is now part of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. JBER is home to two Starbucks locations; Café Nai, a Veteran-owned café at the JBER hospital; Soda & S’More, which offers several coffee drinks; and more.
Troops and civilian contractors take refuge from the summer heat under umbrellas outside of the Green Beans coffee shop June 18, 2005, at Camp Victory, Iraq. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Adam Ramsey)
Soldiers at an AAFES Starbucks, Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, circa 2005.
Exchange Starbucks crew members at the opening of the Exchange’s 100th Starbucks in 2020 at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. The location was part of the big celebration when JBLM unveiled its $72.6 million expansion on Sept. 28. The Exchange’s first Starbucks opened Sept. 5, 1997, at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.
