Salute to American Heroes 12 is coming and it’s going to be SPECIAL! The theme this year will be “Our Heroes Wear Dog Tags” and you can get your very own Official Adopt-a-Soldier Platoon dog tag if you buy something in the silent or live auction or if you donate $$$ to one of the many […]
TRULY A NIGHT OF: PAGEANTRY, PATRIOTISM and ENTERTAINMENT! TABLES were elegantly set up. This year we honored the US Navy Warships in the Red Sea and Eastern Mediterranean Sea regions and our Special Guest was CMC Tim Bickerton of the USS GRAVELY (DDG-107). (Program design by TGD, Edmonds, WA.) This Year’s Esteemed Honoree […]
The week of our Fall Pack we also had a special Outdoor Respite event for our Wounded/recovering Veterans – a fly fishing event in the Catskills! (More info to follow shortly)
On September 25, we packed over 200 care cartons for ALL our Adoptees – warships in the Eastern Med and Red Sea regions, the NJ ARNG in the Middle East, Green Berets and SEALs in East Africa and Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen and Coasties all over the world; also USOs and a Red Cross station […]
On July 4th, Alan and Mary-Edna Krutchkoff got to present a very special memento from the Red Sea deployment of the USS Bataan (LHD 5), a signed Field of 50 stars from the crew. Special presentations from our Adoptees are always heart-warming. The Freidenrich’s are great Benefactors and Patriots and it’s always fun to be […]
Yesterday, 15 February 2024, we had the distinct pleasure to present a signed 50-star Field from the USS Bataan (LHD-5) to our great Benefactors at Best Way Trucking Service in Fairfield, NJ. Owner Mark Trewhella is a very generous Patriot who does all our local trucking pro bono. He picks up food products from Inserra […]
On October 19,2023, our Salute to American Heroes 10 featured an internationally-known Wounded/Recovering Veteran, former Corporal, 1st Royal British Gurkha Rifles Regiment, Hari Budha Magar, as our Special Guest — he climbed Mt. Everest on May 19, 2023, on prosthetic legs. He is an inspiration to all who doubt themselves, who have disabilities and and/or […]
It was a “One in a Million” year. Unilever sponsored a NASCAR Xfinity Race Car with JR Motorsports and the Adopt-a-Soldier Platoon image raced at Charlotte Motor Speedway May 28. Well, our driver, Justin Allgaier, made it to our Gala, even if only briefly for a few hours, since he had to be in Miami, […]
Mooresville, NC, 26 May — An Adopt-a-Soldier Platoon team of military Veterans and their caregivers/family and a core group of Volunteers spent several days in NC visiting the JR Motorsports Shop, touring a local lake on a dinner cruise and attending the ALSCO 300 at Charlotte Motor Speedway for the NASCAR Xfinity race. The reason? […]
Exciting news – a NASCAR Xfinity race car simulator for the Unilever/Adopt-a-Soldier Platoon Car #7 driven by Justin Allgaier on May 28th at Charlotte Motor Speedway will be visiting the following military bases: So very cool. SSgt Garret K. and his family stopped by the simulator and his daughter drove the car, while at the […]
