Robert Philpot
Monday will mark the 22nd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, when terrorists hijacked jet planes, flying them into both World Trade Center towers and into the Pentagon. Passengers on United Flight 93 died preventing an attack on the U.S. Capitol, overcoming hijackers to crash that plane into a field in Somerset Count, Pennsylvania. Nearly 3,000…
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In the ad, Andrea Frazier, an Air Force Veteran, talks about how the Exchange serves the military community.
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In case you missed it, here’s a look at this week’s coverage. Click on the photos for the stories.
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One of the more unusual stories of Exchange support began on Sept. 1, 1960—63 years ago today—when the United Nations established a PX in the Republic of the Congo. An Exchange associate was put in charge—and he would have some stress-inducing adventures that weren’t directly related to running the store. A couple of months earlier,…
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Many Exchange retirement ceremonies have taken place in the Brian Sonntag Room, an auditorium on the first floor of Dallas headquarters. On Aug. 31, Sonntag’s own retirement ceremony will happen in the room named in his honor. From March 2004 to March 2005, Sonntag was deployed during Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was assigned to a…
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Exchanges in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina either closed or had limited hours Wednesday morning after Hurricane Idalia made landfall on the Florida Gulf Coast as a category 3 storm.
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Exchange teams are rallying to support the MacDill Air Force Base Exchange, where Hurricane Idalia is expected to make nearby landfall Wednesday morning. The hurricane is expected to generate 8- to 12-foot surges along the Gulf Coast, including the Tampa Bay area, where MacDill is located. Hurricane-force winds and flash flooding are also risks. MacDill…
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The daughter of an Air Force Veteran who served in Vietnam, Patricia Austin grew up with the Exchange. Raised in Dallas, she and her family would go to Carswell Air Force Base for doctor visits, and then stop by the BX and the Commissary. “We’d make a trip out of it,” said Austin, who has…
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After more than 80 years under its previous name, Fort A.P. Hill is now Fort Walker. The new name for the installation, which was established as an Army facility on June 11, 1941, six months before the United States’ entry into World War II, honors Dr. Mary Walker, a Civil War surgeon who is the…
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