We were able to send out checks to our partner organizations today. Today we sent: COPS: $262.00 Operation Gratitude: $246.00 Army Wife Netw: $78.00 Packages From Home: $436.00 Marine Corps Association Foundation: $584.00 Military Order of the Purple Heart: $1016.00 Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund: $2014.00 Gold Star Mothers: $618
By Elaine Sanchez American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, April 11, 2012 – First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, today marked the one-year anniversary of the Joining Forces campaign by celebrating the individuals and organizations that have stepped up in “extraordinary ways” to improve military families’ lives. In brief remarks, Dempsey noted the importance of supporting troops and their families. Service members are “pillars of American strength … ...
WASHINGTON (Army News Service, April 17, 2012) -- President Barack Obama has announced that Spc. 4 Leslie H. Sabo Jr., a rifleman with the 101st Airborne Division, will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor May 16 for his actions during the Vietnam War. Sabo is credited with saving the lives of several of his comrades in Company B, 3rd Battalion, 506th Infantry when his platoon was ambushed May 10, 1970, near the Se San River in eastern Cambodia. Sabo shielded a comrade from an enemy grenad...
We experienced this last Friday afternoon. It's an experience that will stay with me forever. I've found more on this monthly tradition within the halls of The Pentagon... Here's a piece I found from the Wall Street Journal and another piece I found from a songwriter. --------- WASHINGTON -- Cpl. Kenny Lyon's mother pushed his wheelchair down a narrow Pentagon hallway, crying as she listened to the applause. Hundreds of Defense Department employees lined the corridor, cheering for Cpl. Lyon a...
Friday the 13th turned out to be very lucky. We were invited to a private tour of The Pentagon. We were in DC on other business and a good friend's mother works in the Pentagon. She's a Lieutenant in the Air Force and she was able to give us time for the full tour. And we just happened to be there on the monthly welcome to the Wounded Warriors. Every month a group of combat wounded Service Members are brought to The Pentagon for a welcome and luncheon. It was, perhaps, one of the most powerfu...
President Barack Obama today signed the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, which increases active-duty and reserve pay by 1.6 percent and governs Defense Department activities, from procurement to military personnel policy. Several provisions in this year’s act will potentially affect active-duty and retired service members and their families. Section 347 requires DOD to finance an independent assessment of overseas troop basing, advising retention, closure, realignment or establishment...
Veterans of the Persian Gulf War with undiagnosed illnesses have an additional five years to qualify for benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs. "Not all the wounds of war are fully understood," said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki. "When there is uncertainty about the connection between a medical problem and military service, veterans are entitled to the benefit of the doubt." A recent change in VA regulations affects veterans of the conflict in Southwest Asia. Many ...
Picked this story up from a UK Website. ---------------- To the troops they are a somber reminder of those who did not make it home, but for their superiors the 'Killed in Action' bracelets have been little more than 'unauthorised jewelry' - and have to be removed. Marines have reacted with fury to orders that they remove their memorial wristbands with names of fallen colleagues etched onto them. Now the commandant of the Marine Corps is changing the rule that bans troops from wearing bracel...
A community salutes 1st Lt. Ashley White Stumpf, who died in Afghanistan Published: Tuesday, November 01, 2011, 7:32 AM Updated: Tuesday, November 01, 2011, 7:45 AM By Brian Albrecht Follow 5 Tweet ShareEmailPrint EnlargeChuck Crow, The Plain DealerThe coffin of Army 1st Lt. Ashley White Stumpf is carried out of St. Joseph Catholic Church with her mother, Deborah White (red dress), and Ashley's husband Army Capt. Jason Stumpf (in back right, red cap), in Randolp...
Dear Friends, As I write to you at this very moment, there are still more than 100,000 American troops in Afghanistan. Another 100,000+ are deployed in foreign countries and on ships at sea -- an American "911 Force" ready to respond at a moment's notice to terrorist attacks, hostile enemy aggression or natural disasters. We must not forget our courageous heroes. 200,000-plus brave service men and women are away from their families, away from home and in...
