Craig Morgan Helps Raise Awareness for Jack Daniels “Operation Ride Home” Campaign to Help Soldiers and Familes Get Home for the Holidays

There’s no place like home for the holidays . . . Yet for our service men and women, getting “home” isn’t always a financial possibility.

Former Fort Campbell service member and Country Music Star Craig Morgan is lending his support to help “Operation Ride Home”, an organization helping troops get home for the holidays. Craig is lending his support and would ask all those that can, to lend their support. “We’re asking other people to donate what they can,” Craig says. “Just a few bucks makes a lot of difference”.

“Operation Ride Home” Campaign . . .
In an effort to assist soldiers and their families in traveling home for the holidays, the Jack Daniel Distillery has launched the “Operation Ride Home” Campaign.

“There are so many enlisted soldiers with families who would love to go to their homes for the holidays, but just don’t have the means to do it,” said Jeff Arnett, Jack Daniel’s Master Distiller.  “These heroes have been serving our country on multiple deployments overseas and we just want to do what we can to help reunite them with their families during this special season.  After all, it’s not what is under the Christmas tree, but who is around it.”

In honor of the decorated 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Jack Daniel’s has donated $101,000 to launch the campaign and is encouraging its friends to visit www.JDOperationRideHome.com and contribute what they can to assist in the effort. The 101st Airborne Division has members serving from all over the U.S. and has been on multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

(The soldier in the photo is a very close relation to the author. It is Sgt. Jason DiBlasi 561 MP CO 101st Airborne Division, Ft Campbell, KY. Jason is from Winchester, MA and has been a member of the U.S. Army since 2002)

The famed Jack Daniel Distillery has joined forces with the Armed Services YMCA of Fort Campbell that will work with military officials at the installation to identify soldiers and families with particular needs and financial assistance for travel from the base to their homes throughout the U.S. this holiday season. The Armed Services YMCA will be purchasing plane tickets and providing pre-paid debit cards for gas, lodging and food for soldiers and their families to travel to their family homes.

Armed Services YMCA Executive Director Shirley West said the Operation Ride Home campaign could potentially help hundreds of soldiers and their families travel to their respective homes from Christmas through the new year.  “The military does an outstanding job getting our soldiers back to base from deployments, but unfortunately so many of them just don’t have the money to leave the base – whether that’s money for a plane ticket if they live far away from the base or even gas money if they’re closer to Fort Campbell. This campaign will be a huge help in reuniting these families,” West said.

Armed Services YMCA of Fort Campbell is one of 16 dedicated branches of the ASCY national 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.  It provides support services to military service members and their families all over the world, with a particular focus on junior-enlisted men and women — the individuals on the front lines of defending our nation.

The Operation Ride Home effort continues Jack Daniel’s longstanding support of our nation’s military.  In recent years, Jack Daniel’s has been collecting personal messages of support in the form of “toasts” to include in USO care packages, and has hosted 14 “stuffing parties” at military installations across the country.  More than 150,000 care packages have been sent to troops serving overseas through the “Toast to the Troops” program.

 

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