Operation Gratitude is California based volunteer organization that sends care packages filled with snacks, entertainment items and personal letters of appreciation addressed to individually named U.S. Service Members deployed in hostile regions such as Iraq and Afghanistan, and on Naval ships at sea. Each service member receives their own care package addressed directly to them. Each package has 50 or more items We also send the packages to Wounded Warriors recuperating in transition units stateside Through our "Battalion Buddy" Program, we send a care package including a stuffed animal and boxes of Girl Scout cookies to the deployed troops' children who are left behind.
