Support Our Troops

Do you know of an important troop support resource?  Click here.

Team USA Hockey

Your company can support our local military personnel by entertaining them to the best professional hockey has to offer, the TEAM USA games of the 2004 World Cup of Hockey this September at Xcel Energy Center! Utilizing this event for a great cause, an economical sponsorship has been created including recognition elements, and tickets purchased being allocated to Minnesota military members. For more information, contact Mike Kimbell, Minnesota Wild at 651.312.3481

Operation Hero Miles

Operation Hero Miles provides a way to help our troops stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan by donating unused frequent flyer miles.  Efforts are underway to make the donated miles more broadly available to all U.S. military personnel.

http://www.heromiles.com

Help Our Troops Call Home

Military Exchange Prepaid Calling Cards:  The Department of Defense Military Exchanges have been authorized to sell prepaid calling cards to individuals and organizations who wish to purchase these cards for our troops serving overseas in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

http://www.usmc-mccs.org/

(or (800) 527-2345

AnySoldier.US 

Send a care Package to any soldier in “harm’s way”

www.anysoldier.us

Defend America

A Department of Defense site.  Send an e-mail to those who are defending our country.

http://www.defendamerica.mil/nmam.html/

Minnesota National Guard Family Programs

Provides links to organizations and businesses that are providing support to our National Guard members and their families.

http://www.dma.state.mn.us/familyprograms/default.htm

Adopt a Platoon

The AdoptaPlatoon Soldier Support Effort™ founded in 1998 is a nonprofit 501C-3 organization managed nationwide by volunteer mothers to ensure that deployed United States Service members in all branches of the military are not forgotten by providing needed mail support and to promote patriotism in our schools and communities. To provide a better deployment quality of life, lift morale, and assist military families, the AAP created projects that meet the need of military requests, established special projects for holidays, and assigns individual morale lifting mail support to service members of all branches of the U.S. military serving their Nation around the world.

http://www.adoptaplatoon.org/

Red Cross

The Red Cross to provide emergency communications that link them with their families back home, access to financial assistance, counseling and assistance to veterans.

http://www.redcross.org/

Mary Pawlenty’s Website to Support our Troops

If you are a member of a service organization, community organization or faith-based organization and want to provide volunteer services to the families of military personnel during this time of separation from their loved-one, you have come to the right place.

http://www.governor.state.mn.us/FirstLady/flmain1.asp

Make a donation to one of the military relief societies:

Army Emergency Relief

AER is the Army's own emergency financial assistance organization and is dedicated to "Helping the Army Take Care of Its Own". AER provides commanders a valuable asset in accomplishing their basic command responsibility for the morale and welfare of soldiers. http://www.aerhq.org/

 

Navy/Marine Corps Relief Society

The mission of the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society is to provide, in partnership with the Navy and Marine Corps, financial, educational, and other assistance to members of the Naval Services of the United States, eligible family members, and survivors when in need; and to receive and manage funds to administer these programs. http://www.nmcrs.org/index.html

 

Air Force Aid Society

The AIR FORCE AID SOCIETY (AFAS) is the official charity of the U.S. Air Force. It promotes the Air Force mission by helping "to relieve distress of Air Force members and their families and assisting them to finance their education. http://www.afas.org/index.htm