How can you help us send care packages to American troops in the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard?

1) Donate Financially - Our greatest need is cash for our mailing costs. With no paid staff and donated warehouse space, we strive to maximize the use of donations. We are a 501(c)(3) charity, so your gifts are tax deductible. We accept checks to Airborne Angel Cadets of Texas, P.O. Box 116691, Carrollton, TX 75011. You can donate via our mobile website - m.airborneangelcadets.com, or via credit card through our Click and Pledge account.

2) Donate Goods - Many individuals, companies and organizations donate goods to our nonprofit for our U.S. soldiers, airmen, Marines and sailors. We kindly request that you contact us at support@airborneangelcadets.com before sending any goods.

11/10/2010

Visit our Christmas Tree at the Deck the Halls Exhibit

The Airborne Angel Cadets of Texas welcome you to visit our own Christmas Tree at the special Deck the Halls exhibit at the Old Red Museum of  Dallas County History & Culture. The Museum is located at a crossroads of activity in downtown Dallas (100 S. Houston Street, Dallas, TX) – adjacent to the JFK Memorial and Dealey Plaza.

Additional details can be found on Old Red Museum's website:

Deck the Halls at Old Red

Join Old Red in Sharing the Joy of This Festive Season and Celebrate Dallas County Traditions
November 20, 2010 – January 2, 2011
Deck the Halls at Old RedOn view in the Museum’s special exhibits gallery are twelve holiday fir trees, each decorated by the volunteers and staff of a Dallas County non-profit organization to illustrate holiday traditions in Dallas.
Visitors may “vote” for their favorite tree by dropping their donations in the box located near each tree. At the exhibit’s close, the tree with the most donations will be declared the winner.

11/09/2010

Recent photos from soldiers in Afghanistan

Below are some photos showing soldiers with some of our recent care package goodies. Some of the items are being shared with local children in Afghanistan.




11/05/2010

November 2010 notes from our soldiers overseas

Thank you for helping to send care packages for all of the Soldiers within my Brigade. There has been at least 1 care packages with your organization attached to it that have come with books, magazines, dvds, snacks, girl scout cookies, hygeine items, and gym equipment for Soldiers to use. Because these items came very quickly, I did not wait until Christmas for a few reasons. The Soldiers were aware I received a dozen packages with goodies in them, and I did not want the food to go to waste. Therefore, I made a decision to give these items out as halloween presents for the Soldiers.

As one of the Brigade Planners, I have sent many of these boxes to ... the outlying Checkpoints where Soldiers have very little of anything because they are conducting 24/7 operations with Iraqi Security Forces. We marked them as Halloween gifts for Soldiers because they arrived here in time for Halloween. Soldiers were very happy to receive goodies out at these Check Points.

We, at the Brigade are ensuring that we are taking care of the Soldiers with the least because it helps to keep their spirits and morale up. I greatly appreciate all that you have done with sending care packages through "Airbone Angel Cadets of Texas." I personnally was surprised to see a lot of the Soldiers quickly grab up any reading material that came in these packages. It is impressive to see Soldiers reading to gain as much knowledge as they can, as well as reading for enjoyment. Again, thank You! The Soldiers are enjoying the goodies. I will send pictures to all of you of Soldiers with goodies from the care packages as soon as I can. Your time, effort and donations have not gone unnoticed, and they are greatly appreciated.
Respectfully, Harold
----------

I just wanted to let you know that we received the boxes for Halloween. I had just received one box today. I have taken a couple of pictures of military members opening boxes. I would like to thank you for the Care Packages they are very we'll appreciated.
Thank you again from the Military Personnel ... in Kabul.
VR, Mary
---------

To our Airborne Angel Cadets supports,
I would like to personally extend my thanks for making our deployment that much more bearable. The 4th ... is at this moment deployed on an Expeditionary Mission. This means when our unit arrived to the current location we planted our flag and said this is where we will make a Camp.

In the case of an Expeditionary Mission the unit must bring every possible thing they need. Each Soldiers is allotted a limited amount of weight for use of personal items. The senior Soldiers pack care items, while our younger Soldiers pack items for entertainment. Since our camp does not have a PX (store) for US Soldiers to acquire personal items they attempt to order what they need from on-line stores. The items you provide help with the urgent need between delivery times and those items that are hard to acquire anytime.
J.A.
------------

Hello, how is everybody? We are doing okay, I guess (really, we’re blessed, thanks to you all) ... We are hurting on the body washes that you all send (we’re out). Also dialing access anymore). I can’t think of anything else. Whatever eye drops, medicated lip balm (carmex in a chap stick style), and calling cards (we don’t have as much free else that you think of (that is if you send anything), just send it on. We love ya’ll and we thank ya’ll very much. God bless and be good.
SSG Ricky

11/02/2010

More October care packages sent to soldiers

Last week we mailed off 193 boxes full of Girl Scout cookies and coffee to 166 different American soldiers overseas.

The total cost of postage was over $4,600.

Our next big care package packing party for soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq will be November 17, 2010.

Any corporate or individual donations for postage costs for the troops care packages will be greatly appreciated.