Showing posts with label care packages. Show all posts
Showing posts with label care packages. Show all posts

Monday, December 12, 2016

Twelve Year Old Care Packages Operation Make Their Day

Santa's soldier: Granger boy sending care packages to deployed military
WNDU News
By Maria Catanzarite
December 11, 2016 

GRANGER
Ever since Tristan Badia was a little boy, he had a giving spirit. It started with feeding little sister Haylie.
"Always getting out, getting her bottles -- stuff like that, and it just kind of pushed on and on from there," said Jason, Tristan's father

Now, it's on to Operation Make Their Day, the second year the 12-year-old from Granger is making care packages for deployed service members. Last year, when NewsCenter 16 met Tristan, he sent 26 cardboard boxes of goodies overseas. In 2016, he and Haylie have compiled 30 packages -- and the mission isn't over.
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Monday, July 14, 2014

Troops low on supplies in Afghanistan, friends step up!

Marine’s Email Asking for Supplies Leads to Lifeline for Troops
ABC News
Angel Canales
July 14, 2014
U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsmen attached to an infantry unit in Sangin, Afghanistan receiving necessary medical supplies. TroopsDirect

CHULA VISTA, Calif. – When Aaron Negherbon opened his email and read a message from a longtime friend and U.S. Marine Corps captain in Afghanistan requesting medical supplies, he took action immediately.

The email read: “Major firefight last night. Medical supplies destroyed or depleted. Resupply could take 6 weeks considering where we are relative to the supply depot. Stethoscopes, gauze, bacitracin and hydro cortisone are the big needs. Any way you can help? We’ll take anything.”

He sent the package to his friend who at the time was leading a unit with 150 marines. “I came to find out that service members were not issued these essential items,” says the 40-year-old Northern California native.

That was the first time Negherbon ever sent a care package to anyone. “As patriotic as I am and was, I just never thought to do it,” he says. That email touched off a process that would lead him to reinvent himself and touch the lives of thousands of service members.

His friend’s response prompted Negherbon to take action on a larger scale to help other service members who needed supplies. “We started to supply this unit with all items that they were asking for. Other commanders were hearing what we were doing and took notice and started requesting items,” he says.
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