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VetVerify.org. VetVerify.org is a shared online service of the Army & Air Force Exchange Service, the Navy Exchange Service Command, the Marine Corps Exchange and the Coast Guard Exchange. Its sole purpose is to verify eligibility for the veterans online shopping benefit, a 2017 expansion of online military exchange shopping privileges to ...
The Army & Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES, also referred to as The Exchange and The PX or The BX) provides goods and services at U.S. Army and Air Force installations worldwide, operating department stores, convenience stores, restaurants, military clothing stores, theaters and more across 50 U.S. states and more than 30 countries.
Tom Shull is an American businessman and Director/CEO of the Army & Air Force Exchange Service (Exchange), No. 54 [ 1] on the National Retail Federation 's Top 100 Retailers list. Shull joined the Exchange in 2012 as the first civilian [ 2][ 3] to lead the Department of Defense 's largest retailer. He also serves on the Exchange's board of ...
Nov. 30—The decision to join any branch of the military can feel like a giant leap of faith. In the case of U.S. Air Force Capt. Donsha Watkins, 9th Reconnaissance Wing chaplain, she weighed ...
Words Unite only carries titles written by indie authors. Words Unite owner, Ashley Marie Booker-Knight, is a veteran and her first brick-and-mortar location was located on the military ...
Beale AFB was established in 1942 as Camp Beale and is named for Edward Fitzgerald Beale (1822–1893), a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and a Brigadier General in the California Militia, who was an explorer and frontiersman in California. Camp Beale became a United States Air Force installation on 1 April 1951 and was renamed Beale Air Force Base.
PAVE PAWS ( PAVE Phased Array Warning System) is a complex Cold War early warning radar and computer system developed in 1980 to "detect and characterize a sea-launched ballistic missile attack against the United States". [ 1] The first solid-state phased array deployed [ 2] used a pair of Raytheon AN/FPS-115 phased array radar sets at each ...
On 1 May 1949 the 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing was activated at Fairfield-Suisun Air Force Base, California, renamed Travis Air Force Base in 1951. The Air Force also activated the re-designated 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Group and the 1st, 5th, and 99th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadrons. The 9th SRW's mission was to obtain complete ...