SUPPORT OUR TROOPS

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SUPPORT OUR TROOPS

Check out the links below for ways to support our troops.

Operation Hero Miles
Your unused frequent flier miles can help our soldiers get home to their families. Find out how you can donate your extra miles to the men and women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Operation USO Care Package
Due to heightened security, individuals can no longer send letters and packages addressed to "Any Service Member." Operation USO Care Package provides a safe, easy way for you to show that your thoughts are with our service members. The Care Packages contain an assortment of items specifically requested by the military, such as prepaid international calling cards, disposable cameras, toiletries, and sunscreen.

Operation Dear Abby.net
Dear Abby, the U.S. Department of Defense, and the U.S. Department of the Navy's LifeLines2000 Services Network in association with SPAWAR SCC (National Capital Region) provides this private and secure online resource that will allow you to send a Sailor, Marine, Soldier, Airman, or Coast Guardsman a message of support.

Send Your Thanks to Service Members
Sign a virtual thank you card at the Defend America Website.

Operation Uplink
Using contributions from supporters like you, Operation Uplink purchases phone cards and distributes them to servicemen and women who are separated from those they care about. Click on the link above to learn more.

The Fisher House
Support families whose loved ones are being treated at military and VA hospitals through a donation to the Fisher House. Click on the link above to buy gift certificates good for commissary purchases in a variety of denominations to be shared with families staying in a Fisher House.

(The above links and information are available courtesy of the Department of Defense website.)

"Operation Thin Mint"

Shipping 1,200 boxes of donated Girl Scout cookies to U.S. Marines in Iraq proved to be difficult for Girl Scout Brownie Troop 348. When Cherie Rhyals, one of the Girl Scout moms, called for help on a project they dubbed "Operation Thin Mint", Alton Garrett, Jr., Field Representative for U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, put Mrs. Rhyals in touch with Captain Donald Traud at March Air Reserve Base in Moreno Valley.

In April 2003, the Brownie and Junior Girl Scouts were able to deliver the cookies personally to the hanger where Marines were preparing to ship out. The Girl Scouts sang songs to entertain the Marines and the Marines taught the girls to shout, "HOO- RAH!"