Nov 5, 2008: SAN JOSE, CA — Operation: Care and Comfort’s “Adopt a Military Family” campaign starts for the holiday season! With your support, we have been able to help many local military families throughout this past year.

The holidays are a special time for us to make sure that military families who need a little support are taken care of. Civilian families, companies and organizations are welcome to join our stand by list of folks who are willing to anonymously help meet the needs of these military families as the needs arise.

We offer a way to assist with no red tape, just help! We also ask folks to consider making a special monetary donation to help us purchase commissary gift certificates for groceries.

If you would like to be added to the standby list, or wish to make a monetary donation, please email Julie DeMaria at troopsupport@comcast.net. For more information, please call Julie at 408-373-8635 or visit https://www.operationcareandcomfort.org/occadopt/index.html.

Checks should be made payable to:

ARC OCC Adopt a Military Family.

Please mail checks to:

Operation: Care and Comfort
3173 Pebble Beach Circle
Fairfield, CA 94534

You can use your Credit Card to make your donation through our Santa Clara Valley Red Cross web site as follows:

Select Operation: Care and Comfort as the recipient.
Add “Adopt a Military Family” in the referred by area.

All funds will be used to help local military families.

Thank you!

About Operation: Care and Comfort:
Since April 2003, the all-volunteer Operation: Care and Comfort program, unique to the Santa Clara Valley Chapter of American Red Cross, has shipped more than 200 tons of care packages for distribution to Marine, Army, Air Force, and Coast Guard personnel deployed in conflict regions. Adopted military units receive care packages monthly, until they return home. Operation: Care and Comfort is a member of the Department of Defense’s “America Supports You” program. For more information on how you can support this worthy program, please visit www.operationcareandcomfort.org.