P.S. I love you: Family Readiness Group sends boxes to Afghanistan
Their soldiers have been gone barely a month, but the family members of the Mississippi National Guard’s 223rd Engineer Battalion are reaching out with Cheetos, chewing gum and ChapStick.
Skyping around the Christmas tree: Guard families stick close to loved ones
Maybe he didn’t put on the lights, but he watched and supervised from afar. Really far. A U.S. military base in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Matt Thompson joined his fiancée and their children via Skype to decorate the family Christmas tree.