Fort Bliss Monitor

AAFES rolls out taste of home for deployed troops

ARMY AND AIR FORCE EXCHANGE SERVICE

DALLAS – Convenience food is a familiar part of American's daily lives and for American troops in Iraq who want a change from Meals, Ready to Eat, the Army & Air Force Exchange Service continues its tradition of bringing a taste of home to troops deployed in support of the war on terror.

AAFES opened new name brand fast food restaurants in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kyrgyz-stan with more to come in those and other Operations Enduring and Iraqi Free-dom locations.

AAFES opened a Burger King and Subway in Kandahar, Afghanistan; Subway restaurants at Ganci, Kyrgyzstan and Camp Danger, Iraq; and Burger King and Pizza Hut restaurants at Balad Air Base, Iraq.
"This is a good morale boost for sure," said Airman 1st Class Steph-anie Heck, 332nd Expeditionary Operational Support Squadron, Balad AB. "It's also nice to have a little something from back home."

Brig. Gen. James Chambers, commanding general of the 13th Corps Support Command, and Col. Blair Hansen, commander of the Balad-based 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing, were present for the grand opening ceremony at Balad where the two restaurants together pulled in $22,000 in sales the very first day.

"It was a great turnout," said Terry McCoy, Army and Air Force Exchange Service chief of Operation Iraqi Freedom food programs. "Everybody worked hard and it came off very well."

The opening of these Burger King and Pizza Hut restaurants brings the total number of AAFES name brand fast food operations in Iraq to 11 with five Burger Kings, four Pizza Huts and two Subways.

AAFES runs 15 name brand fast food restaurants in Iraq (11), Afghanistan (3) and Kyrgyzstan (1). These are included in the 77 name-brand AAFES-run restaurants in OEF/ OIF as a whole.

In Afghanistan, another Subway is also planned for Bagram, along with a combination Dairy Queen/Orange Julius and Popeye's Chicken. Addi-tionally, a combination Dairy Queen/ Orange Julius is projected for Kanda-har and a Dairy Queen for Camp Phoenix.

"A Pizza Hut in Kandahar will open in the next couple of weeks," said Jerry Hanson, contracting officer for OEF/OIF with AAFES European Re-gion. "We also have Subways planned for Balad, Taji, Sather, Bucca and Victory South, Iraq."

AAFES has even purchased a portable Blimpie Xpress trailer for use at remote training locations. It is currently supporting troops in training here at Fort Bliss and is located at Dona Ana Base Camp, a remote training site for units on the way to OEF.

Wherever our deployed, or soon-to-be deployed, troops are, AAFES is right there alongside them bringing that one-of-a-kind taste of home..



www.bliss.army.mil	Published for the Fort Bliss/El Paso, Texas Community	November 10 , 2004

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