Donate to Send Tampons to Deployed Troops to Save Lives

Shelly Vail of Troop Support Alliance gave permission to post her email supporting Treats for Troops:

Treats for Troops is proud to share the news that SaveOnTampa Bay has stepped up to help in a MUCH needed area for our troops ... "tampons."

For the female soldiers the obvious reasons, BUT most of all to the Special Forces who take a handful with them every time they "go across the wire" in case they get shot.

Tampons are individually wrapped, sterile, easily inserted. They absorb, expand
and a surgeon can easily remove it.

This is one area that the manufacturers don't talk about. The fact is that TAMPONS SAVE MILITARY LIVES!

Just $3 can save a life. Please make a donation (in increments of $3) so we can send this much requested item to the war zones. (For example, if you want to buy five "specials," please make out the check for $15.)

If you'd like to add a couple of dollars for shipping, that would be awesome as well.

To read thank you letters from our troops, see photos or find out what else you can do to help... please check out www.treatsfortroops.info

Make check payable to Treats for Troops and send checks to:

Treats for Troops
4923 Patagonia Place
Land O'Lakes, Fl 34638

In memo section write: SaveonTampaBay Special
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Phyllis Zimbler Miller is the author of the novel MRS. LIEUTENANT and her social media marketing company Miller Mosaic Power Marketing works with clients to use social media to attract more business. Read her social media marketing blog.

SKIP Supports Our Troops and You Can Help

Thanks to a tweet on Twitter I just learned of the organization SKIP -- Special Kindness in Packages, Inc. Here's what the org's home page states:

Several minutes of every day deployed US military members think about being back home. These thoughts might be of family and friends, buying a new car, or simply saying, "I can't wait to go home".

Special Kindness In Packages, a.k.a. SKIP, provides those service members with support from home to keep their spirits up and encouragement to perform their jobs well. SKIP has not and will not forget about the sacrifices these men and women make on a daily basis, and we know we're not alone.

America, we need your support and so do our troops. On the SKIP website you'll notice numerous opportunities to make a difference in the quality of support given to our troops. If you don't see something you're looking for, or if you have any questions please contact us.

Each Military Care Package packed by SKIP volunteers is a symbol of America's devotion to our troops, a "thank you" to those who keep this land safe, and a reminder to our military that "we care."

Visit this website now and learn how you can help.
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Phyllis Zimbler Miller is the author of MRS. LIEUTENANT: A SHARON GOLD NOVEL and the co-author of the Jewish holiday book SEASONS FOR CELEBRATION. She also blogs as a National Internet Business Examiner and at Operation Support Jews in the Military and Fiction Marketing, and she is the co-host of the BlogTalkRadio show Your Military Life.

Her company Miller Mosaic LLC builds call-to-action websites that get people to say yes to your brand, book or business. Her newest project is the book/website project In Support of Our Troops.

Supporting Our Wounded Troops in Tampa, Florida: Please Help If You Can

I asked Shelly Vail, who is part of the support group for Haley House (see my previous post), to write a guest post about the Troop Support Alliance and also a wish list for Haley House besides the much-needed monetary donations. Above is a photo from Friday flag wave and below is the first of two parts of Shelly's guest post.

The Troop Support Alliance is an umbrella name used by a bunch of small grassroots groups here in Tampa Bay who do troop support. We also do the Friday flag waves as the Troop Support Alliance as well. We also help support each other's projects and we all support Haley House and the Haley VA in as many ways as we can on top of our niche areas.

My group is called Operation Gamer2Gamer and was started back in 2002 while I was working for Microsoft as a retail field rep. It was a way for the gamer guys here to help support their military gamer family serving overseas.

I was adopted by a game clan called Xtreme Eagles who continue to help me out with troop support even during my extended time as a wounded warrior – xtremeeagles.net and g2g.extremeeagles.net.

We used the video games as moral support at first to help the guys over in combat to relax during off duty hours. Then through Mary Ellen Harlan and Haley House we were able to expand to help with the recreational therapy crew over at the Haley VA Hospital. So since 2004 we have been using the video games as extended physical therapy with some really amazing results.

These are some of the other small grassroots groups that are part of Troop Support Alliance:

Operation Warm Heart – This group raises funds that are given 100% to the needy junior enlisted troops at MacDill AFB. The fund is controlled by the First Sergeants Council at MacDill and is used for those in dire financial need through no fault of their own. Any donation you give is put to good use and is greatly appreciated – operationwarmheart.org.

CENTCOM Memorial – This group is based out of MacDill AFB in Tampa, Florida. It has taken five years but the group has finally gotten its petition through Congress and approved for the memorial. This memorial will be built and maintained at the base to remember all our troops who have paid the ultimate price for freedom –
centcommemorial.org.

Banana Bread for the Troops – This family group actually makes and bakes a special high potassium banana bread that is frozen and shipped over to the troops. Barbara and Al Davis even have the recipe posted for you to try yourself. They recently moved back up to Indiana to live near family but continue to bake for the troops –
bananabreadforthetroops.org.

Stay tuned for my next post with Shelly's wish list for Haley House families and for the wounded troops at the Haley VA Hospital.