Posted on 03/06/2010 11:57:40 AM PST by SandRat
FORT HUACHUCA — Operation Junior Heroes will deploy a new bunch of recruits to Camp Lightning at 9 a.m. March 27.
The event is designed to take the mystery out of deployments and help children express feelings about separation due to the military. The deployment includes check in, registration, mock medical check-up, distribution of orders and a trip downrange where soldiers are training/preparing for deployment. In addition to learning what soldiers do, kids will get to eat at the chow tent and experience a mail call. The young recruits will get to visit the mock PX and take part in a welcome-home ceremony.
The program is sponsored by the Ladies Auxiliary of Veterans of Foreign Wars and Fort Huachuca Child, Youth and School Services.
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