Operation Christmas - 2019
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As Americans, we tend to take the military for granted and just assume we are protected. Most people seeing this know that I have been involved with the 505 PIR and 508 PIR for the last 15 years. Both units are part of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, along with three supporting battalions. They are currently deployed to Afghanistan.
My association, Family and Friends of the 505th Regimental Combat Team Assn. has joined forces with the Golden Brigade Chapter of the 82nd Airborne Division Assn. (Vietnam Veterans) and Mr. Leo Hobson, a 505 PIR veteran to launch Operation Christmas 2019.
Our goal is to send cookies and Christmas cards to the 3,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and provide Walmart gift cards to the families of the deployed soldiers (E4 - Specialist and below).
We will also assist the Paratrooper Family Readiness Group in providing "Comfort Baskets" to the single soldiers returning to barracks at deployment's end. (When deployed, the soldiers who reside in the barracks have all their possessions put into storage and return to an empty barracks.) The comfort baskets will consist of one set of sheets, one pillowcase and one towel for each soldier returning to barracks.
It has been my great honor to be involved with 82nd Airborne veterans and active-duty troops and know firsthand how much these holiday remembrances mean to the men and women who fight to preserve the freedoms we enjoy.
They have not forgotten us; let's not forget them.
LET'S MAKE THIS A DECEMBER TO REMEMBER FOR OUR SOLDIERS AND THEIR FAMILIES.
My association, Family and Friends of the 505th Regimental Combat Team Assn. has joined forces with the Golden Brigade Chapter of the 82nd Airborne Division Assn. (Vietnam Veterans) and Mr. Leo Hobson, a 505 PIR veteran to launch Operation Christmas 2019.
Our goal is to send cookies and Christmas cards to the 3,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and provide Walmart gift cards to the families of the deployed soldiers (E4 - Specialist and below).
We will also assist the Paratrooper Family Readiness Group in providing "Comfort Baskets" to the single soldiers returning to barracks at deployment's end. (When deployed, the soldiers who reside in the barracks have all their possessions put into storage and return to an empty barracks.) The comfort baskets will consist of one set of sheets, one pillowcase and one towel for each soldier returning to barracks.
It has been my great honor to be involved with 82nd Airborne veterans and active-duty troops and know firsthand how much these holiday remembrances mean to the men and women who fight to preserve the freedoms we enjoy.
They have not forgotten us; let's not forget them.
LET'S MAKE THIS A DECEMBER TO REMEMBER FOR OUR SOLDIERS AND THEIR FAMILIES.
Co-organizers (2)
Ellen Peters
Organizer
Dallas, TX
Richard O'Hare
Co-organizer