USO
USO program helps keep Area I troops in Iraq connected
Phone cards donated by folks back home are helping non-command-sponsored wives in Area I stay in touch with their husbands in Iraq serving with the 2nd Infantry Division’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team (Strike Force), a United Service Organizations official said.
'Ski-nosed Santa' is back in Southeast Asia for laughs
BOB HOPE, the ski-nosed Santa Claus who saves all of his goodies for American troops serving in the war zones, "tooled up" his sleigh and began winging across the sky yesterday on his way to Southeast Asia.
‘A taste of home’: USO serves Thanksgiving staples to single troops stationed in Japan
At Yokota, an Air Force airlift hub in western Tokyo, the USO brought a taste of home to single service members with an early Thanksgiving meal.
US, Japanese service members recognized by USO for community service
Every U.S. military base in Japan, except those on Okinawa, and each branch of the Japan Self-Defense Forces were represented at the Salute to Service Awards.
Ann-Margret digs the military
FOUR YEARS AGO, a swinging coed from Northwestern University headed for Europe with a USO tour that supercharged audiences from Germany to Iceland.
DiMaggio likes A's chances — Taiyo's, too
The Athletics’ first year in their new Oakland home left Joe DiMaggio, their vice president in charge of class, enthusiastic over the club’s chances for a pennant.
Career sailor on Okinawa gets presidential award for hundreds of USO volunteer hours
Petty Officer 1st Class Erin Stroup, 40, received the President’s Volunteer Service Award for volunteering 170 hours at the Camp Foster USO in the previous year; she earned the same award last year for volunteering 120 hours.