Exchange History Articles
Martin Luther King Jr. Day was declared in 1983 and first celebrated as a national holiday in 1986. Exchange associations were honoring him before that.
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The “We Go Where You Go” spirit continued as Reforger became an annual exercise that lasted until 1993. Here are some photos of Exchange support through the years.
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The former president, who passed away Dec. 29, made a few Exchange stops during and after his presidency.
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In the late 1990s, concerns arose about how computers would react to a year represented numerically as “00.” The Exchange began preparing for Y2K more than two years before the year 2000 happened.
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Sixty-one years ago this month, the Exchange closed its operations in Morocco, where it had operated stores since World War II.
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This Saturday, Dec. 7, is the 83rd anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Flashback Friday took a look in Exchange Post archives for connections to the Exchange—and found stories about a few survivors among past Exchange associates. Pictured above is damage inflicted on Hickam Field by Japanese bombers. The post exchange at Hickam…
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Today is the 61st anniversary of the president’s assassination, inspiring this look at Exchange activity with a link to him,
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The space-themed grand opening coincided with a holiday theme. Both themes coincided with howling winds and freezing temperatures, neither of which could stop customers from checking out the new store, which replaced facilities that dated to World War II.
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Exchange associates became “personal shoppers” for troops who had to be quarantined after they returned from West Africa to the United States.
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The beginning of National Native American Heritage Month is one of the inspirations behind this look back at a visit by Navajo Code Talkers, a group of Marines whose encrypted messages based on the Navajo language helped lead to U.S. victory in the Pacific during the war.
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