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129 Years of Family Serving Family: Lisa Olivares, HQ

By Karrington Bradley / March 13, 2025 /

The senior buyer in Consumables, Retail Food, will celebrate 36 years with the Exchange at the end of March. Her mother also worked for the Exchange and her father served in the Navy.

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Words From the Director/CEO: How Your Dedication Strengthened the Benefit in 2024

By Tom Shull / March 10, 2025 /

The Exchange is thriving, and credit is due to your never-ending commitment to serve our Nation’s Soldiers, Airmen, Guardians and the military community.

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129 Years of Family Serving Family: Tamara Loonam, HQ

By Karrington Bradley / March 5, 2025 /

The 14-year associate is a military spouse–and comes from a family with multiple military connections, including a grandfather who was a three-star Army general who served in World War II..

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Exchange Delivers More Than 217,800 Boxes of Girl Scout Cookies Overseas in Taste-of-Home Mission

By Zach Wright / February 19, 2025 /

For more than 20 years, the Exchange has delivered thousands of boxes of cookies overseas to help the Girl Scouts of the USA’s overseas branch, USA Girl Scouts Overseas (USAGSO), make a difference by improving morale with a taste of home.

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Four people cutting a cake at the Zama Express Hunt Brothers Pizza grand opening.

Cheese the Day! Camp Zama Cuts Ribbon (and Cake) on Hunt Brothers Pizza

By Chris Ward / February 6, 2025 /

It’s the second Hunt Brothers Pizza at Camp Zama and the fourth on mainland Japan.

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129 Years of Family Serving Family: Lorraine S. Brown, Holloman Air Force Base

By Travis Day / February 4, 2025 /

The Express store manager, a military spouse and 21-year associate, enjoys the small-town feel of working at a smaller installation.

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Exchange Newlyweds Hear Call of Military Service after Wedding Bells

By Zach Wright / February 3, 2025 /

JBSA-Lackland Exchange Service Business technician Kristen Ruiz and JBSA-Randolph Express laborer Jemse Cruz are planning to reach another milestone together as a couple – joining the Nation’s military, as newlyweds.

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JB Anacostia-Bolling Exchange Provides Support for Coast Guard, Air Force Recovery Workers at Potomac Crash Site

By Robert Philpot / January 30, 2025 /

Within hours of receiving a request for support, the JBAB team arranged for food trucks, bottled water and more to support Coast Guard and Air Force personnel working on recovery efforts after the crash of an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army Black Hawk helicopter.

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Executive Vice President/Chief Merchandising Officer Eric Sidman head shot with "Meet the Team" graphic.

EVP/CMO Talks About His Exchange Career and What’s Coming Up for MD

By Robert Philpot / January 22, 2025 /

For Eric Sidman, who became Exchange executive vice president and chief merchandising officer in June, the new role was a natural segue. He had spent all 17 of his Exchange years in Merchandising, starting in 2007 when he helped launch the then-new Planning, Allocation and Replenishment (PAR) team. Since 2020, he had been senior vice…

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129 Years of Family Serving Family: Davina Thomas, Fort Bliss

By Robert Philpot / January 21, 2025 /

The Purple Heart Express shift manager, an Army Veteran and spouse, talks about her Native American heritage, the role the Express plays in boosting troop morale and more.

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