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This time of year. it helps by sending 20,000 care packages to our troops each year. i had the honor of working with them at joint base mcguire in new jersey. it s called operation troop aid. a big impact bringing a little piece of home to the troops serving overseas. we re about to send 10,000 for christmas. reporter: mark woods is the founder and ceo of operation troop aid a navy veteran of 24 years. he came up with the idea after organizing the garth brooks concert on board the uss enterprise after 9-11. a lot of troops, they may not have family or their family because of the economy can t afford to send bags. so we re just trying to stand in the gap for them. now mark hosts concerts all around the country and uses the money to pay for care packages. ....
Welcome home. men and women serving overseas christmases spent away from family can be hard. i have the honor of working with them at joint base mcguire in new jersey. it is called operation troop aid. a small operation with a big impact bringing a little piece of home to the troops serving overseas. we are about to send 10,000 for christmas. mark woods is the founder and ceo of operation troop aid. a navy veteran of 24 years he came up with the idea after organizing the con ert is. on board the uss enterprise after 9-11. a lot of troops may not have family because they can t afford to send bags. we are trying to stay in the st in the gap for them. now he hosts concerts and uses the money raised to pay for care packages. ....
Give it away. that s the cool thing, we re empowered to give to organizations like operation troop aid, operation homefront, great organizations you can support and this week there are wipes that are free at major grocery stores, a highly requested item troops in afghanistan request. i wouldn t be able to buy $300 or $400 but because i have coupons i can donate them to the troops in afghanistan. how many boxes of stuff you have in your house right now? i do have a lot. if you watch the show you can see my stockpile, it s, it impresses me sometimes but our stockpile is designed to prevent me to spending $200 or $300 at the store. i have 20 or 30 tubes of toothpaste, 50 boxes of cereal, 300 or 400 cans of vegetable or soup. they have a great shelf life, i don t have to buy them when they re expensive at the store. ....
passengers aboard a delta flight. we ll tell you twhapd. and take a close look at the circle on your screen. sometimes baseball fans will do whatever it takes to catch a ball, including dropping their kid just to make a catch, come on. it s sunday, may 29th, 6:00 a.m. in atlanta, 5:00 a.m. in joplin, missouri. the nation s chief executive offering a shoulder to cry on this morning, headed to tornado damaged joplin, missouri. president obama is expected in joplin shortly after 1:00 eastern. te will meet with tornado victims and deliver brief remarks at a 3:00 eastern memorial service at missouri southern state university. his visit comes as the death toll rises to 142 this morning. more than 90 people remain missing, more than 1,000 have been injured. later this afternoon, at 5:41 central, the city is observing a moment of silence, that is the exact time one week ago the tornado plowed a half-mile swathe through joplin. we take you live to joplin. paul brickhaven is th ....
The show, they have so much stuff in their garage. they don t understand why we stockpile and we tell people, why would you pay for something now if it it free or cheap today. buy a couple extra so you can give it away. that s the cool thing. what we re doing is empowered to give to organizations like operation troop aid and this week there are wipes that are free at major grocery stores and that s a highly requested item that troops in afghanistan request. i wouldn t be able to buy 300 or $400 worth if i didn t have coupons. so, just give me an idea how many boxes of stuff you have in your house right now. i do have a lot. if you watch the show, you can see my stockpile. and it s a pretty impressive it impresses me sometimes. but what our stockpile is really designed to prevent me from spending $200 or $300 at the store. right now i think i have 20 or 30 tubes of toothpaste and 50 ....