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The Army & Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES, also referred to as The Exchange and post exchange/PX or base exchange/BX) provides goods and services at U.S. Army, Air Force, and Space Force installations worldwide, operating department stores, convenience stores, restaurants, military clothing stores, theaters and more nationwide and in more than 30 countries and four U.S. territories.
The Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) was established May 15, 1990, by a memorandum from the deputy secretary of defense; this was the first DoD functional agency consolidation during the post-Cold War cutbacks and downsizing. [2] DoD appointed Army Maj. Gen. John P. Dreska as the agency's first director in June 1990.
Fort Walker, [8] formerly Fort A.P. Hill, is a training and maneuver center belonging to the United States Army located near the town of Bowling Green, Virginia.The center focuses on arms training and is used by all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces, independent of any post.
The store first opened in East Lansing on Saginaw Street in 1923. Grand Ledge couple Kelly and Tim Carpenter have owned it for 35 years.
An exchange is a type of retail store found on United States military installations worldwide. Once similar to trading posts , today they resemble modern department stores or strip malls . The terminology varies by armed service; some examples include base exchange ( BX ), and post exchange ( PX ), and there are more specific terms for subtypes ...
The mission would be to reduce the surplus of forthcoming material and to store and ship ammunition, trucks, parts, and other supplies. Construction on the depot took place from January through April 1942. [4] [5] The historic James Finley House, Building No. 505, Letterkenny Army Depot, serves as the post commander's residence
The former military buildings and flightline facilities at Richards-Gebaur are now essentially abandoned, left in a deteriorating state. Most of the former buildings, including the Officers' and NCOs' Clubs, the base hospital, theater, and commissary, the Wing Headquarters buildings, and some of the base housing have been demolished.
A commissary at the Scotts Run coal mining camp, 1938, near Morgantown, West Virginia Commissary for sharecroppers, on display at the Louisiana State Cotton Museum. A commissary is a store for provisions which can include prepared foods for eating either on-premises or off-premises. It is usually run within an organization such as a mining ...