Supporting the Troops

The Gratitude Campaign has created a universal gesture to thank troops for their service.

A new app from the U.S. Defense Department provides wounded warriors with a comprehensive mobile resource guide. The Compensation and Benefits Handbook for Wounded, Ill and Injured Members of the Armed Forces is available for Android and iOS devices.

This partnership between Operation Homefront and Chase Bank will give at least 100 wounded-warrior, military and veterans' families their own permanent homes this year.

All applications for the $1,500 scholarships must be received at a commissary location by Feb. 24.

Promoting the idea that "Kids Deploy Too!" when they see parents go to battle overseas, Military Kids Connect offers children of the armed forces an online forum to network with others in the same situation.

American Hometown Heroes connects veterans who want to start companies with marketing and other support from independent Yellow Pages publishers.

Send your manufacturers' coupons-even expired ones-to the Troopons program, and they'll go to military families who can use them.

Medal of Honor Winner Sgt. Dakota Meyer, USMC, wants to raise $2 million to fund educational opportunities for the children of wounded Marines and Navy Corpsmen.

Most deadlines for shipping cards and packages to warzones in time for the holidays have passed, but you can still send ecards to deployed loved ones overseas courtesy of Real Warriors

Pay no shipping on select packages when sent to APO or FPO addresses. But act fast because the deadline for combat-zone orders is December 3.