AAFES is a multi-channel retailer offering products in retail stores, catalogs, and online to Authorized Customers. In 2006, the Exchange Catalog and Exchange Online Store made more than 25,000 items, thousands of vendor partner items, and hundreds of thousands of partner items from ExchangeOnlineMall.com available to customers through the online site. AAFES supports a very mobile clientele. Regardless of where the customer lives, the Internet can increase the usefulness of the exchange.
It is a joint military operation that provides quality goods and services to active duty members, guards and reservists, retired military personnel, and their families. AAFES donates profits to the Army and Air Force to improve the quality of life for troops and provide dividends to support MWR programs. When military personnel travels to remote locations worldwide, AAFES offers products and services to give soldiers and airmen a sense of belonging.
The exchange also administers and funds the Exchange Credit Program (ECP), created by Congress in 1979 to protect military personnel from predatory lending. The Military Star Card is ECP’s most popular product, with 1.6 million cardholders across all six branches and their families.
In 1895, the Army and Air Force Exchange Service (Exchange) was the place where soldiers, airmen, and their families went to improve their quality of life by donating valuable goods and services at exclusive military prices. Represents the military reseller community by operating the Military Star program. The credit exchange program offers the Military Star Card. It charges no trading fees from the military resale community and saves over $28 million in expensive trading and banking fees in 2020.
With your Military Star Card, you can pay for room charges, AAFES store purchases, Shades of Green Box Office for tickets to Disney and Orlando attractions through Shades of Green, special events, and weddings. New Star Card account holders will receive a 10% discount on day one purchases with their new Military Star Card applied to Shades of Green.