Photo By Master Sgt. Chris Botzum | Lt. Col Scott Meier, left, Deputy Group Commander for the 111th Air Operations Group...... read more read more
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HORSHAM AIR GUARD STATION, Pa., - Members of the 111th Attack Wing and area Pa. Army National Guardsmen aligned with the Liberty USO and Wawa, Inc. on Nov. 10 in Media, Pennsylvania, to package an estimated 5,000 care packages destined for deployed military members overseas.
Working in assembly-line fashion, an estimated 75 Wawa employees, volunteers and Guard members built, boxed, heaved, transported and stored 7,800 pounds of local convenience store favorites such as coffees, sweets and hand-written support letters to overseas military member from Wawa employees,
“We’re thrilled to continue this tradition for a decade,” said Wawa CEO, Chris Gheysens. “We do these things in support of the military because it’s part of [Wawa’s] DNA. Our teaming with the Liberty USO has been fantastic.”
Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. and assistant judge advocate general with the Pennsylvania Army National Guard’s 56th Stryker Brigade, Michael Stack, kicked off the building process with Gheysens tossing the first stuffed care package bag of treats into the box readying for places unknown.
During the event, titled as a “Taste of Home,” Wawa, Inc., presented a check to the USO for $770,000 raised through customer and employees contributions from across their eastern U.S region 645 stores.
“This is the right thing to do at the right time,” said Leigh Maxson, an IT project manager with Wawa whose father was a 21 –year Navy veteran.
A large Pennsylvania Air Guard box truck, meticulously packed floor to ceiling, front to rear, labored under the load as it made its way back toward the air guard base for storage and final weighing four hours later.
According to Liberty USO’s Program and Outreach Monitor, Kristen Lowe, the care packages trucked in and stored at the Horsham Air Guard Station will ship to points across the globe in advance of Thanksgiving Day.
| Date Taken: | 11.10.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 11.13.2015 09:53 |
| Story ID: | 181880 |
| Location: | MEDIA, PA, US |
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