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I want to adopt someone who has NO ONE it is good for those who have family supporting you, it is also very sad when no one is there!

Your nephew is in my prayers!

For the those of you who recognized what is on this site!
http://www.operationac.com/dw_pages/whatwedo.htm

We have stopped buying Air Conditioners for this summer. As of 1 October 2004, we begun to buy space heaters. The procedure to donate space heaters is to donate cash to us so that we can buy them in bulk at a discount (we buy 1000 heaters at a time usually) and we buy boots in bulk as well, about 450 pair at a time. We'll get it to the specific soldier or marine who signed up on our site in Iraq or Afghanistan. We also encourage you to sign up to adopt a soldier or marine and send them cards, care packages or anything to let them know we are still behind them and we support them!

We have an Adopt-A-Soldier program where you can sign-up here on the website to adopt a soldier. You can buy him or her the Altama Combat boots and begin corresponding with them and sending them care packages. We will also continue sending Altama Ripple sole combat boots ourselves to the soldiers we find that have an immediate need. We have just been picked up by a local business to sponsor "Boots From Bikers" campaign from Mike's Famous Harley Davidson located in New Castle, Delaware. We sent 428 pairs out in August and now we are going to do this again in October.

We send soldiers anything they email us and ask for. Our soldiers and marines are humble people and they only ask for what they need like water and food. I have never received a request for a "luxury" item. I do send them snake repellent, insect repellent, sticky traps for the scorpions and flea powder also. It is my hope that we make their existence in Iraq and Afghanistan during their deployment as safe and as easy on them as possible given the job they are there to do. I have found that the 2 pairs of boots they are given for their deployment are just about falling off their feet and they are worn out. Getting new supplies of these types of items is difficult to get to our troops. You will see by the letters our troops mail to Operation AC that the boots are a really big thing for them. Just imagine wearing the same boots in hot sandy conditions following with cold, wet and muddy conditions for nearly a year. Plus you are on your feet about 15 hours a day on average. Anyone who was in the military will tell you - soldiers must take care of their feet. That does not change from Valley Forge with General Washington to now in Iraq.

Rested Soldiers are more alert and able to perform their duty SAFELY! We need to buy and send many items to help these soldiers and marines. They are doing VERY dangerous jobs.

They need us! Please donate!!!

We have struck a deal with the Altama Boot Company in Georgia. We can buy soldiers the Ripple Sole Desert Boots they need for a fraction of the cost that the soldiers have to pay for them.

Please consider adopting a soldier and sending them these boots. If you can't afford it, let us know and we'll put your soldier or marine on our list and we'll buy