Any vet can tell you that the Red Cross sucks. The Salvation Army (”the Sallyann”) is the best.
They hosed me in 1979 when I was a young Airman stationed overseas and was trying to get home on emergency leave. The Red Cross kept trying to block me from getting to go home. Finally my First Sgt and Squadron Commander threatened them and wrote the orders anyway.
“Any vet can tell you that the Red Cross sucks. The Salvation Army (the Sallyann) is the best.”
Sooth.