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BULLSEYE Feature 11August 28, 2015
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Shopping at Nellis ETHIOPIA, from page 9 ____________________
Exchange pays dividends
didn’t really have any information to really get ready for
From the Army & Air Force Exchange Service it; I had to adapt from nothing.”
NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. — Airmen and change.com are working to better their communities. Woldetsadik stated that he spent the first two weeks
their families shopping and dining at Army & Air “One hundred percent of Exchange earnings serve mimicking the things other trainees did.
Force Exchange Service stores and restaurants on
Nellis AFB generated $552,694 last year for Air Force Airmen and their families,” said Lawrence. “When “After the second week it was all fine,” said Woldet-
quality-of-life programs. service members shop or dine at their Exchange, sadik. ”I adapted and I graduated. I went to tech school,
they’re investing in their own community, making which was supply, and I was actually the second top
Over the past 10 years, the Exchange has provided it a better place to live and work.” student in my class.”
more than $2.4 billion in dividends to military programs.
Since then, Woldetsadik has been stationed at two
“Roughly two-thirds of Exchange earnings are bases, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, and Nel-
paid to the services’ morale, welfare and recreation lis AFB, Nevada, and now has a line number for master
programs, while the other third goes toward build- sergeant.
ing new stores and renovating facilities,” said Nellis
Exchange general manager Lawrence Simmons. “If you understand aircraft maintenance, parts and
supply is our lifeblood,” said Capt. William Keuchler,
The Exchange’s mission of providing quality 757th AMXS Eagle AMU officer in charge. “If we don’t
goods and services at competitively low prices while get parts, say a jet goes down for an extended amount of
generating earnings to support quality-of-life efforts time; if he is not doing his job effectively it really affects
means that the Exchange benefit is more than finding the overall mission of sorties. The job he has done has let
a good price on merchandise. This structure ensures us have some of the best metrics we’ve ever had, he does
that shoppers who take advantage of their benefit really good work.”
at the Nellis Exchange or online www.shopmyex-
Woldetsadik, now a husband and father of four, hopes
to eventually make his way back to Ethiopia to visit his
family.
“For me personally, whenever I hear his story, obviously
it’s pretty cool but to me it’s truly an American story,” said
Keuchler. “He wins the lottery, he gets over here, joins the
Air Force, realizes the military is a great opportunity and
he has taken advantage of it since.
“Ethiopia is one of the largest countries in the world
— population wise — and they have obviously a lot of
people trying to get (to the U.S.) so he won the visa lottery,
but literally he can’t be any luckier — he hit the jackpot.”
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