Welcome to our Chapter, repeat recipient of MOAA's "5 Star Level of Excellence" Award (2003-2008) and recipient of Category I First Runner-UP Communications Award for Print Newsletter and Web Site!
Click on www.letssaythanks.com where you can pick out a thank you card, Xerox will print it, and it will be sent to a soldier that is currently serving in Iraq. You can personalize your message or choose one of several thank-you messages already composed.
You can't pick out who gets your card, but it will go to some member of the armed services.
Please send a card. It is FREE and it only takes a minute.
Just visiting? Go to our Membership page for a one year free chapter membership!
17 June Dinner Meeting at The Fairfax
Please join us for an evening with Brigadier General Wilma Vaught, USAF, one of the most highly decorated military women in U.S. history.
6:00
P.M. Social Hour (Cash Bar)
7:00
PM Dinner 8:00 PM Speaker
Make Pre-Paid Reservations Now!
Cost $22 per person
Send reservations and check ($22 per person) to arrive by
Friday, 12 June, to MVC/MOAA,
Attn: Paul Mehler, P.O. Box 97,
Mount Vernon VA 22121-0097 .
Payment at the door is $24.
Please note: In a cost-saving gesture some chapter members are now receiving their copy of The Despatch online by visiting the Newsletter and Articles page on our Website, www.mvmoaa.com. If you would like to join them by discontinuing your paper copy of The Despatch, please contact one of our Board members or Officers or email your request to membership@mvmoaa.com.
Thank you!
Join Us to stuff USO Care Packages for our Troops
Bill Broome lifts a box of 25 Care Packages
What's all the buzz?? Mount Vernon Chapter members gather regularly at the USO warehouse on Fort Belvoir to stuff USO Care Packages for troops deployed in or deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan. A great time has been had by all at each event, as we have helped stuff, box, and shrink-wrap thousands of Care Packages! C'mon and join us at the next stuffing party! Contact Ronee Yasher at ronee@usometro.org to sign up.
The Fort Belvoir USO warehouse is the only location in the world for Operation USO Care Package. They have shipped over 800,000 Care Packages to date. Their goal is to hit 1,000,000 by the end of this year.
Jane Broome stuffs a Care Package
Gary and Betty Jean Hall during the lunch break
At the end of one of the "stuffing parties," a recent returnee from Iraq, SFC Al Baker, thanked the workers and told them how much the Care Packages boosted his morale and the morale of his troops when they received them earlier this year.
For more pictures of Chapter members in action, click here.
For more information on the dates/times of future "stuffing parties" click here or go to the USO Care Package page.
