Project Afghanistan Hunt Club

The recent announcement of Project Afghanistan Hunt Club by Stabley Outdoors reminded me how thankful I am to all the great strangers and family members who sent unsolicited care packages during my deployments to Operation Desert Storm/Shield, Operation Enduring Freedom/Iraqi Freedom and just because.

Care Packages

My wife and I and my office adopt a service member each month.  We gather odds and ends through a central collection box and send them out.  As a twenty year Navy veteran it is something I strongly believe in.  Although these service members are generally deployed from the local area surrounding Naval Station Great Lakes, IL they are usually strangers to us. 

While Project Afghanistan Hunt Club is an opportunity to support our outdoors service members don’t stop there.  Adopt your neighbor’s son, daughter or grand son.  If you visit an online talk forum, ask if anyone has a deployed loved one defending our nation.  There are also organizations that connect service members with good hearted people like yourself and vice-versa.  Go to A Soldier’s Wish List to “Adopt a Trooper” now.  The last Trooper I adopted from there was also an avid outdoorsman. Read the rest of this entry »