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Support Our Troops

Support Our Troops is JINSA’s combined campaign to provide assistance to American service personnel in need.

  • Support Our Troops is comprised of the "Fran O'Brien's Soldiers' Dinner Fund" and the "Deserving Soldiers Holiday Appeal."

This Thanksgiving

This Thanksgiving comes at a time of tremendous upheaval, economic dislocation and a truly historic presidential election. As a country, we are exhausted and jittery, and nothing makes us think the way ahead will be any easier or calmer.

JINSA Co-Sponsors 2008 USSOCOM Care Coalition Conference at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina

In September 2003, JINSA established the Deserving Soldiers Holiday Appeal through the guidance of Major General Sid Shachnow, USA (ret.). The Deserving Soldiers Holiday Appeal distributes funds to military families who are identified by their unit commanders as in critical need of financial assistance to participate fully in the holiday season. These families have or had a breadwinner serving in Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries where American troops are deployed or have had a family member killed in action. Funds are distributed from Thanksgiving to New Year's Day.

Deserving Soldiers Holiday Appeal Totals $168,000 in 2007

For the fifth year in a row, members and non-members alike supported American troops through JINSA's Holiday Appeal on behalf of "Deserving Soldiers" and their families. Since the effort was established, more than $450,000 has been distributed.

JINSA Co-sponsors Conference on Assisting Veterans of War on Terror

USSOCOM’s "Care Coalition" Unites Grass Roots Efforts to Aid Wounded Soldiers

by Marilyn Stern, Care Coalition Conference representative, JINSA Board of Directors