SUPPORT OUR TROOPS INC
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Mission Statement
Who are we? We are you -- the individual Americans who want to do good things for their troops. SupportOurTroops.Org is a 501(c)(3) public purpose charity through which Americans strengthen the morale and well-being of their current military service members and their families. Without you we are an empty vessel. With you we are full of good works and good will for the complete military unit: the soldier, the spouse, the children. Support Our Troops, Inc. provides millions of dollars’ worth of goods and services that range from large scale enterprise-level container shipments to bases and battalions, down to individual soldier support. If they’re there, we’re with them®
About This Cause
What We Do, and How You Can Help Provide Millions of Dollars of Food Assistance • Monthly provision of millions of dollars of food assistance to military families stationed around the globe. • Interface and coordinate with 24 commissaries and base exchanges around the world to deliver this free service. • Saves average military family $160 monthly, which augments their military pay for other things. Connect the People and Their Troops • Cards and letters from America’s school children are sent overseas through us. • Schools, churches, civic groups, businesses, and individuals across America send extra comfort items to the deployed troops through SOT. • High morale means high mission effectiveness and safety. Provide Stability and Continuity for Overseas Military Kids • Help fund a program that provides similar weekly club and fun activities across bases so they can be with other • American military kids in a familiar social setting when they arrive at new bases every few months. • Help fund family reintegration for families upon their soldier's or sailor's return. • Help fund summer camp for BRATS (the military’s affectionate term for their kids) • Help assure adequate food, and sports activities. Help Other Troop Support Groups as an Umbrella Organization • Help them get located through our Find-a-Group Program. • Provide free goods for their packages via our Care Goods Grant Program. • Enables them to send more packages with a broader variety of goods. • Frees up money for shipping costs, producing more benefit to the troops. • Assures the broadest, deepest and fastest dissemination of support and home messages to the deployed service members. Move Large Scale Support Materiél to Soldiers in War Zones & AOCs • Physically move large scale support materiél from people and companies to soldiers in war zones and areas of conflict by ocean freighter, train and truck. • 40 foot cargo container, tractor trailer, and pallet size MWR (morale, well-being and recreation) shipments to bases and battalions. • Enterprise-wide shipments of MWR goods and supplies, periodically supplying most all branch bases CONUS and OCONUS. • Monthly load 20’ CONEX containers of battalions deploying from major joint bases with requested sustenance, hygiene and MWR supplies for their deployment. Show Soldiers They Are Not Alone • First-deployment soldiers know people back home are with them through individual care packages that boost their morale. • “Any soldier” morale packs for service members without supportive family. • Thank-you cards and letters from school kids, churches, and workplaces. • “Rec-paks” to FOBs and lean-equipped bases provide down time activity. Connect the Troops to Their Families • Connect thousands of soldiers and sailors to family, home and country with phone calls, internet and video chat from remote island and desert locations via our Satellite Communication Program. • From these locations this is the only electronic way to connect with home and the program provides funding assistance at the individual level. Get the Troops What They Ask for Wherever They Are • Thousands of individual care packages. • What they request, in a matter of days, wherever they are. • Items not readily accessible at their location. • Specialty shipments of hygiene, operational and special equipment to increase mission effectiveness and protect lives and limbs. • Items not available or timely available through the conventional supply chain. Support National Guard Members • Support National Guard members at home and deployed with MWR goods, emergency aid, and news about what they do. • Provision CONEX containers of Guard units deploying overseas with requested sustenance, hygiene and MWR supplies for their deployment. Support Overseas Military School Children • Support military youth in overseas military schools with supplies, sports equipment and more. Support America’s K-9 Soldiers • Support America’s K-9 soldiers with necessary gear and health care supplies. • They protect our service members. We support them. • Provide K-9 handlers with basic and specialty dog care items to foster a good environment for the dog and handler. Promote Civilian and Corporate-Citizen Support • Promote civilian and corporate-citizen support for America’s soldiers, sailors and their families. • Official state-issued Support Our Troops! license plates in 23 states. • Meet Your Military articles, newsletters, media releases, interviews, radio interviews, radio and television commercials, and support messages from a number of different perspectives. • Quality PSAs and social media videos that encourage support for our neighbors serving in the military to protect us. Educate Fellow Americans on Our Military as a Force for Good • Educate our fellow Americans about their military. That it is a force for good. Foster public awareness and understanding of • Department of Defense missions, personnel, facilities, equipment and programs. • The importance of their nation's role in the world and the need to protect it. • Inform our fellow citizens that “the military” is actually our deployed neighbors who have stepped up to take their turn protecting all of us. • Through SOT Media, Americans learn about their military, which fosters public awareness and understanding of Department of Defense missions, personnel, facilities, equipment and programs. • High quality PSAs and social media videos that show the principles, reasons and character involved underlying a person's service the military. Provide Millions of Dollars of Food Assistance • Monthly provision of millions of dollars of food assistance to military families stationed around the globe. • Interface and coordinate with 24 commissaries and base exchanges around the world to deliver this free service. • Saves average military family $160 monthly, which augments their military pay for other things. • What We Do, and How You Can Help Support National Guard Members • Support National Guard members at home and deployed with MWR goods, emergency aid, and news about what they do. • Provision CONEX containers of Guard units deploying overseas with requested sustenance, hygiene and MWR supplies for their deployment. Support Overseas Military School Children • Support military youth in overseas military schools with supplies, sports equipment and more. Support America’s K-9 Soldiers • Support America’s K-9 soldiers with necessary gear and health care supplies. • They protect our service members. We support them. • Provide K-9 handlers with basic and specialty dog care items to foster a good environment for the dog and handler. Promote Civilian and Corporate-Citizen Support • Promote civilian and corporate-citizen support for America’s soldiers, sailors and their families. • Official state-issued Support Our Troops! license plates in 23 states. • Meet Your Military articles, newsletters, media releases, interviews, radio interviews, radio and television commercials, and support messages from a number of different perspectives. • Quality PSAs and social media videos that encourage support for our neighbors serving in the military to protect us. Educate Fellow Americans on Our Military as a Force for Good • Educate our fellow Americans about their military. That it is a force for good. Foster public awareness and understanding of • Department of Defense missions, personnel, facilities, equipment and programs. • The importance of their nation's role in the world and the need to protect it. • Inform our fellow citizens that “the military” is actually our deployed neighbors who have stepped up to take their turn protecting all of us. • Through SOT Media, Americans learn about their military, which fosters public awareness and understanding of Department of Defense missions, personnel, facilities, equipment and programs. • High quality PSAs and social media videos that show the principles, reasons and character involved underlying a person's service the military.