Do Colored Dots deliver Army Trainee’s mail Faster?
Thousands of letters and postcards arrive at Fort Benning each day, bringing inspiration to recruits. Families are asked to add a colored dot to their envelopes to make it easier for the hard-charging mail specialist to sort and deliver mail. According to Fort Benning’s FAQs, the colored dot makes sorting mail easier. Thousands of Soldiers…
“Trust The Process” an Army Mom’s Daily Mantra
No one could have prepared me for the flood of emotions that would follow after sending our oldest child and only son off to Basic Training. I had not done my homework to learn the military acronyms or research the phases, ranks, etc. I just knew our son wanted to join the military, and it…
National First Responders Day
The day of recognition is a relatively new holiday, but it was a long time coming. Congress made October 28 National First Responders Day in 2017, though the first bipartisan resolution passed through the senate in 2019. At the time, there were about “4.6 million career and volunteer firefighters, police, emergency medical technicians, and paramedic workers serving…
National Chocolate Cupcake Day
WHAT IS NATIONAL CHOCOLATE CUPCAKE DAY? National Chocolate Cupcake Day is every year on October 18 – a day where office break rooms everywhere fill with a special kind of joy only brought by chocolate cupcakes (thanks Jan). Chocolate cupcakes were born out of a 1796 cookbook called American Cookery and have since grown into a worldwide craze and dessert staple. So let’s appreciate all…
Military Vendor of the Month
NAVY BOOT CAMP 101 recognizes MondayDelivery.com as their October Vendor of the Month! Monday Delivery has delivered over 100,000 postcards to recruits and veterans in all branches of the armed services. MondayDelivery.com was built on a simple philosophy – spreading encouragement through postcards. CEO, founder and U.S.M.C Veteran Andrew Appleton started his postcard business during…
Adopting-an-Airman at BMT Graduation
Nearly 35,000 men and women graduate from Air Force basic training every year. Recruit graduation is the culmination of weeks of physical and mental training and the most significant accomplishment in their life. Unfortunately, many recruits have no family members who attend graduation. However, there is a way for families attending graduation to fill the…
Too Cool for British Rule – the Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776
The Declaration of Independence was the first formal statement by a nation’s people asserting their right to choose their own government. When armed conflict between bands of American colonists and British soldiers began in April 1775, the Americans were ostensibly fighting only for their rights as subjects of the British crown. By the following summer,…
Heartwarming Father’s Day photos celebrate military dads reuniting with their kids
Happy Father’s Day to all of our military dads. We appreciate the dedication from all our service member’s dads, stepdads, grandfathers, and uncles who have been ‘boots-on-the-ground’ supporting their sons, daughters, and grandchildren. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson went to Spokane to speak in a Father’s Day celebration and wanted to make Father’s Day a…
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