The Comfort Crew for Military Kids partnered with flAir Style Lounge last weekend to provide a red carpet treatment for two deserving military teens and their friends for Homecoming. The Comfort Crew first met the sisters, Shannon and Nicole at Camp Hero 2012, CCMK’s annual camp for National Guard youth at Camp Mabry. You can see from the picture below that Nicole still has her signature card from Camp Hero! When Shannon and Nicole were younger, they experienced both parents serving in the military and separation due to deployments. Their father was a Captain in the Air Force and an FBI agent, but passed away eight 8 years ago. Their mother, Laretta, continues to serve in the National Guard Air Force on the Join Counterdrug Task Force and as a Human Resource Advisor at the 136th Airlift Wing. “When their father died, I considered getting out of the military so I could spend more […]

The USO With You All the Way! Tour started back strong at Camp Pendleton last week. So, where will Trevor Romain and the tour be this month? October 6-10     Okinawa October 13-24   Japan October 27-31   Guam R4 Alliance Conference – Comfort Crew’s Angela McDonald joined 35 other R4 Alliance members who provide recreational and therapeutic activities for our military and their families. We are looking forward to providing resources to military kids through these quality organizations. Taking Care of You! Support for Kids of Injured Heroes Kits and Together Again! Helping Military Families Reconnect Kits have already been sent out to member’s camps for October. AUSA Conference – Comfort Crew’s Ronda Englander and Rita Willoughby will be attending the AUSA Conference and setting up with non-profit exhibitors in Washington DC next week. This will be another great chance for us to share information about our resources with military families.

We would like to thank volunteers Welton and Lorraine House for working so hard to let military children and their families in Michigan know about The Comfort Crew for Military Kids and our resources available to them. Long time USO volunteers, Welton and Lorraine have distributed over 1,000 Comfort Crew brochures and displayed our Comfort Kits at outreach events throughout Michigan. We appreciate their time and energy to let military kids know… We’re With You All the Way!

So far this year, the With You All the Way! Tour….. included 20 weeks of travel was seen by 12,811 military kids and 25,000 total students supported 19 military bases representing all branches of the military traveled to 91 schools in 10 different states gave 110 presentations Tour Highlights: In February, the tour made a stop in El Paso. We received many thank you notes from military children similar to this one: “Thank you for helping me realize I have people who can help me get through deployment.” In May, a 5th grade student at a school in Florida, came to the presentation smiling and talking and asking a bunch of questions. Both her parents are Air Force and divorced when she was younger. Her Dad was deployed. Sometimes kids become emotional during the presentation. That was the case this day. The girl clapped along and held back the tears […]