Volunteers needed to mail holiday cards

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  • By Sheila Rupp
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Any holiday can be hard without a loved one, but being deployed overseas without your sweetheart on Valentine's Day can be particularly rough - but Airmen can still send a card home to their valentine.

Albuquerque resident Sarah Coca has been soliciting donations from local and nationwide businesses for greeting cards and paper goods to send in care packages overseas to provide a way for Airmen to communicate. Ms. Coca has packaged nearly 800 boxes that have found their way into the hands of deployed Airmen via Air Force cargo transport, and more recently members of Team Kirtland have volunteered to mail the boxes. Ms. Coca is continuing her quest to make sure that Airmen have writing materials, this time for Valentine's Day.

"This helps those soldiers who may not have the capability to get cards because of their location," said Tech. Sgt. Steve Felts, the Airman and Family Readiness Center noncommissioned officer in charge.

Each box contains approximately 100 cards and envelopes for servicemembers to write in and mail home to their loved ones. The Airman and Family Readiness Center has boxes full of Valentine's Day-themed products ready to be sent off. The correspondence is packaged in flat-rate priority mail boxes that cost $8.10 to mail.

"I'd like to get them (the boxes) off as quickly as possible so that the troops have time to send them back to family," said Sergeant Felts.

Anyone who would like to help with the task can get one or more boxes at the AFRC in the Consolidated Support building and pay postage.