MOAA Council Helps Others

摘要

Lt. Col. Jim Bradford, USA, a battalion commander with the 1st Infantry Division in Fort Riley, Kan., is on his fourth deployment since the Sept. 11,2001, attack. Each time Bradford deploys, his wife, Daniele, looks for ways to support her husband and his battalion.rnIn November 2008, Daniele invited families from her husband's battalion to participate in a packing party for "Help us Learn ... Give us Hope." The program, founded in 2008 by MOAA's Kansas Council of Chapters President Col. Gary LaGrange, USA-Ret., allows military families to ship school supplies directly to their loved ones' deployed units.