Supporting Operation HOLIDAY LEAVE

The chapter provided much needed support to the Hartsfield-Jackson USO in December as part of Operation HOLIDAY LEAVE. Each year, Fort Benning conducts the exercise to place military members with their families during the Christmas season. Hartsfield-Jackson International in Atlanta is a nexus for tens of thousands of troops to make air connections on their way to and from their military bases and their loved ones. Mary Lou Austin, director of the SE Regional USO, expressed her appreciation in the January luncheon saying she "appreciated the resources, volunteers, food and drink which you so generously provided, showing 'Hometown America's' support for our troops." Maj. Gen. Austin Miller, USA, commanding general of the Maneuver Center of Excellence at Benning, also expressed his thanks for the benefit received by the troops as a result of the chapter's hard work during Operation HOLIDAY LEAVE. Austin has already asked the chapter if it could execute a double shift next year, a challenge easily accepted.

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