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Col. Jason Wesbrock, commander of U.S. Army Garrison â Fort Hood, reads a childrenâs book during USO Fort Hoodâs weekly Bob Hope Legacy Reading Program video, which is posted on the USO Fort Hood Facebook page every Wednesday.
Photo by Benjamin Griffin, USO Fort Hood
Photo by USO Fort Hood
In Honor of 80th Anniversary, USO Encourages Americans to Give More Than Thanks to Military Community
Americans invited to actively express gratitude for troops who serve us all
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ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ On Feb. 4, 2021, the United Service Organizations (USO) will celebrate 80 years of strengthening America s military service members by connecting them to family, home and country, throughout their service to the nation.
The USO has adapted to the evolving needs of the military since its founding in 1941. What began as six civilian organizations pooling their resources to entertain the troops during World War II has transformed into a community-driven nonprofit that continues to reinvent itself and find innovative ways to respond to service members emergent needs. Wherever members of the military are deployed on the front lines overseas or on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic response at home the
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Children receive backpacks full of school supplies from the USO’s Rucksacks to Backpacks program in Moon Township in August.
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United Service Organizations, better known simply as USO, has been improving the lives of military members and their families since World War II, but the organization went decades without a presence in Western Pennsylvania
“It was just an unserved area, nobody really had ownership of it,” said Christine Ree, USO operations manager in Western Pennsylvania. “There was a desire to put a USO in Pittsburgh. From my research, it’s been since 1947 that we had any USO presence in Pittsburgh.”