Troops can send hometown holiday greetings

Army News Service ^ | Oct. 20, 2003

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Troops can send hometown holiday greetings

SAN ANTONIO (Army News Service, Oct. 20, 2003) -- The Army and Air Force Hometown News Service is now offering its holiday greeting program to service members worldwide, allowing troops to send relatives greetings through hometown newspapers.

Submissions will be accepted through Nov. 25, officials said. They said that the print greeting program is in its fourth year, but this is the first time it has been opened to Internet submissions from individual service members.

The print greeting program is a fully electronic Internet program that allows any service member to send a formatted holiday greeting to relatives through the Hometown News Service, officials said. After processing, the HNS staff e-mails the greetings to newspapers serving the relatives’ community. The program is free to both the service members and their community newspaper.

"We have more than 1,000 hometown newspapers signed up for newspaper holiday greetings, and they each cover several zip code areas,” said Gerry Proctor, HNS chief of marketing. “Each form can generate several releases. The greetings are distributed according to ZIP codes and state.”

“Complete and correct information is vital.” Proctor said. “Submissions without a ZIP code or with an incorrect ZIP code go nowhere.”

Besides having several releases generated from each form, the service member can input multiple forms as well, Proctor said.

"Each person can submit as many greetings as they want," Proctor said. "You can send holiday greetings to your parents, in-laws, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles and anyone who is a relative as long as you have their city, state and ZIP code."

Program information and forms are accessible at HometownLink (http://hn.afnews.af.mil) from any government computer system.

(Editor's note: information provided by Army and Air Force Hometown News Service.)

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

 Thanks, Tonkin!

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

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[Ragtime Cowgirl]

The Army and Air Force Hometown News Service is now offering its holiday greeting program to service members worldwide, allowing troops to send relatives greetings through hometown newspapers.

Submissions will be accepted through Nov. 25, officials said. They said that the print greeting program is in its fourth year, but this is the first time it has been opened to Internet submissions from individual service members.

1000 hometown papers bringing the troops closer to home for the holidays.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"The Army and Air Force Hometown News Service
is now offering its holiday greeting program to service members worldwide,
allowing troops to send relatives greetings through hometown newspapers."

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[Soaring Feather]

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[VOA]

very cool...thanks for posting the link

[HiJinx]

Bump-It!!

[VOA]

Bump-It!!

Nada problem...
And I'll shamelessly tell posters/lurkers that if they are even just thinking
of sending a care package to someone overseas in the military...
take the link in post #2 above.

It's time NOW to get those holiday care packages in the mail!!!

[VOA]

It just occurred to me that the press release above should go into any holiday letter/card
or care package...in case the news doesn't get out to those far-flung outposts...

[Wallace T.]

In the present environment of multiculturalism and sensitivity to all (except EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL white heterosexual Christians), will soldiers, airmen, marines, and sailors be permitted to send Merry Christmas messages, or will they be required to send politically correct Happy Holidays messages?

[armymarinemom]

Big Ping. It is so important that we remember our troops. If we don't remember them others will. Please read a message posted on the Blue Star Mothers Forum for messages to our troops today.

Posted by Osama Bin Laden on Oct. 20 2003,16:21
Christ ya'll are dumber than a sack of hammers. A few of you die every day, your pay and benefits have been cut, Butt Head and Beavis are making Trillions and you'll are as happy as pigs in sh**!
Well, got to see your old lady you dumb f****...oh...thanks for "protecting my freedom!" Big Macks for everybody!
Ha ,ha,ha!

See how sweet the liberals are to our troops.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Doesn't the wanker know that his address can be traced? Do the troops laugh at such messages?

Some people need dealing with.

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Link!

Program information and forms are accessible at HometownLink: http://hn.afnews.af.mil  from any government computer system.

[VOA]

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[armymarinemom]

I guess he didn't know. He has been reported and banned but I still didn't like reading the garbage.
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[fatima]

Please spread the word ping.

[Alamo-Girl]

Bump!

[radu]

Thanks for the pings!

Now wouldn't you know I'd see this right after I got the NASCAR race results in the mail to Iraq? LOL! That's ok, I have plenty of stamps and envelopes. I'll get this info out tomorrow, in case the folks I write to over there don't know about this already. I hope they have e-mail access so they can send messages home for the holidays. This is a wonderful idea!

[Soaring Feather]

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[boxerblues]

I'll have to pass this one around. Not many of the guys are aware of this nice service