FZ1riderNY
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Hello Everyone! We are starting this thread after being approached by Mike (stretched06) the other day with a nice idea. He derserves all the credit for this thread.
Since being on this great site for over three years now, I have noticed that many of our members and many of their family members have served, or are currently serving this great country of ours. While it's true that I have never served in the military, I consider myself very patriotic, and am proud of each and every man and women whom have given so much to keep us protected both here and abroad.
Mike had asked me about starting a thread where we could come to find out how we could give back by sending Care Packages to either service men or women we have in our families, and more importantly, service men and women who have little or no family back home and receive little or no parcels from home.
This is totally voluntary, and no one is obligated to participate. Now, while this is new to me and I never knew they had these programs, I have read up on some links that Mike had sent me. and have found out that there are several ways to send items.
A couple of ground rules though to keep things private. We don't want to enable others outside of our site to see the addresses of family members abroad, so if we post that we have a family member in the service and someone else would like to send that person a package, it would be better to PM the person in order to get the address privately. Mike has said that some unsavory people have gotten addresses from sites like this and have run scams on some of the Military people through letters.
We also don't want to list any Facebook Pages of any of our service men or women to respect their privacy.
Now as I have said, this is new to me and I'll probably learn more about it as we post up on the thread. We are willing to make changes as we get input from other members, and if you do know any other ways to accomplish what we want to do, please feel free to give your input.
The page that I have been reading up on is AnySoldier.com
If anyone has ideas that we can incorporate into the thread, please feel free to do so, such as other sites that offer this kind of service, etc.
I'd like to thank Mike for bringing this to my attention. Any credit for this shall go to him. I'll be making this a "Sticky" so it will always be readily available. I think the best way to get started is to just jump in and offer tips or advice. Thanks for looking, and God Bless Our Service Men And Women!
Since being on this great site for over three years now, I have noticed that many of our members and many of their family members have served, or are currently serving this great country of ours. While it's true that I have never served in the military, I consider myself very patriotic, and am proud of each and every man and women whom have given so much to keep us protected both here and abroad.
Mike had asked me about starting a thread where we could come to find out how we could give back by sending Care Packages to either service men or women we have in our families, and more importantly, service men and women who have little or no family back home and receive little or no parcels from home.
This is totally voluntary, and no one is obligated to participate. Now, while this is new to me and I never knew they had these programs, I have read up on some links that Mike had sent me. and have found out that there are several ways to send items.
A couple of ground rules though to keep things private. We don't want to enable others outside of our site to see the addresses of family members abroad, so if we post that we have a family member in the service and someone else would like to send that person a package, it would be better to PM the person in order to get the address privately. Mike has said that some unsavory people have gotten addresses from sites like this and have run scams on some of the Military people through letters.
We also don't want to list any Facebook Pages of any of our service men or women to respect their privacy.
Now as I have said, this is new to me and I'll probably learn more about it as we post up on the thread. We are willing to make changes as we get input from other members, and if you do know any other ways to accomplish what we want to do, please feel free to give your input.
The page that I have been reading up on is AnySoldier.com
If anyone has ideas that we can incorporate into the thread, please feel free to do so, such as other sites that offer this kind of service, etc.
I'd like to thank Mike for bringing this to my attention. Any credit for this shall go to him. I'll be making this a "Sticky" so it will always be readily available. I think the best way to get started is to just jump in and offer tips or advice. Thanks for looking, and God Bless Our Service Men And Women!
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