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The Army and Air Force Canteen Service (AAFCANS) was established in 1915 as the Army Canteen Service. It is a not-for-profit Commonwealth statutory body that operates under the Defence Australia portfolio and is answerable to the Minister for Defence, the Minister for Defence Personnel and the Chiefs of Defence, Army and Air Force.
In 1892, the Hon. Lionel Fortescue, Canteen President of the 17th Lancers, became dissatisfied with the corrupt way in which canteen finances were being handled.He established a system for keeping a locked till in the canteen and put Sergeant John Gardner in charge, an honest and able man who would later look after hundreds and thousands of pounds as one of the staff of the Navy and Army ...
It traces its origins to the British colonial period in India, where the Army Canteen Board was created as part of the British Navy and Army Canteen Board. [3] While the British organization was dissolved in 1922 and replaced by the Naval, Army and Air Force Agency, the Indian Army Canteen Board continued until 1927. [ 3 ]
A World War II-era field kitchen used by the Czechoslovak Army. A field kitchen (also known as a battlefield kitchen, expeditionary kitchen, flying kitchen, or goulash cannon) is a kitchen used primarily by militaries to provide hot food to troops near the front line or in temporary encampments.
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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.
In his book Vietnam: Images from Combat Photographers, author C. Douglas Elliott writes that DASPO Pacific "showed soldiers--often teenagers--coping as best they could with unrelenting heat and humidity, heavy packs, heavy guns, and an invisible enemy whose mines, booby traps, and snipers could cut life short without a moment's warning."
The Canteen Stores Department traces its origins to the British Raj, when the Army Canteen Board was established in India as an offshoot of the British Navy and Army Canteen Board. Although the Navy and Army Canteen Board was abolished in the UK in 1922, and was replaced by the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI), its counterpart in ...