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"USO Programs Operation Phone Home USO Operation Phone Home is a campaign designed to provide prepaid international calling cards to as many of our service men and women overseas as possible. This program designates 100% of monetary donations to the purchase and distribution of 100-minute global calling cards to deployed service members. A $10 donation will provide one phone card, including shipping, for a deployed service member. Operation USO Care Package Operation USO Care Package was developed to boost morale and provide a safe and secure way for the public to show their support for our troops. A USO Care Package can be purchased for a service member when a $25 donation is made. USO Care Packages are delivered to service members who are either in route to an overseas assignment or are currently deployed. Branding opportunities for corporations are available. Operation Mail Call The USO and Pelican Art, LLC, have partnered to create Operation Mail Call -- a new way for the American people to demonstrate support for our troops serving around the world. $25 will purchase a pre-paid greeting card account for a service member, worth 10 greeting cards. Here’s how it works: Greeting card account cards will be distributed to service members by select USO centers. Service members will be able to log-on to access an Internet-based greeting card provider, enter the account number and password from the back of the account card, and personalize and send greetings cards to their loved ones at no expense to them. The cards are sent the next business day from within the United States via the U.S. Postal Service. Pelican Art will donate $10 of each $25 purchase to the USO to support its programs and services. Gift Certificates to the Commissary or the Exchange “Gifts from the Homefront” is a program developed for the donation of AFFES gift certificates to be used by service members at base exchanges. To donate an exchange gift certificate click here. Gift Certificates to the commissary can also be donated through Defense Commissary. To donate a commissary gift certificate click here. Your gift will go to USO Centers stateside and overseas for distribution to military personnel. Operation Homelink Operation Homelink is a non-profit organization with a mission of facilitating e-mail communication between U.S. soldiers deployed overseas and their families back home. This organization provides a free refurbished computer to the spouse or parents of troops within the pay grades of E1-E5. Corporations who donate the computers specify the geographic area or deploying military unit to receive the computers. The USO assists with coordinating the selection of recipients and the distribution of the donated computers. Operation Homelink is not able to accept individual computer requests. Corporations interested in donating computers can learn more about the program by clicking on the link above. General Donation General donations to the USO will support: * Hospital Support for Recuperating Soldiers * USO Overseas Centers * Mobile Canteens * Airport Centers * Family and Community Centers * Celebrity Education Program * USO Entertainment Tours * USO Picnics Your gift will be used to support USO programs and other services that directly benefit our men and women of the Armed Forces to best meet their immediate needs."

http://www.uso.org/pubs/8_20_10417.cfm

11/17/2005 10:42:56 AM

mmm i miss my soldier

11/17/2005 1:34:54 PM

TrjnMan007

11/17/2005 1:36:03 PM

um, he's not a soldier...nice try though

11/17/2005 1:36:44 PM