Video and info on becoming a USO volunetter. From the site:

"Whether helping a soldier with a connecting flight, distributing a Care Package, serving snacks with a smile, providing local information, or "welcoming home" troops from deployment, USO volunteers are vital to the success of the USO’s mission. While the duties of a volunteer may vary, the goal is always the same – to improve the quality of life of service members, to boost their morale and to serve as the link between service members and the American people."

www.uso.org/howtohelp/becomeavolunteer/

From the Green Beans Coffee site:

In more than 60 cafes overseas, Green Beans Coffee provides a welcomed moment of respite where deployed services members can relax, enjoy premium organic coffees, teas and fresh baked pastries, hear great music and for a few minutes, escape into a peaceful oasis of tranquility that brings a little bit of home with every cup of coffee served.

For a couple of bucks you can treat a deployed US serviceman or woman to a nice, hot cup of joe.

Click here for more info

Home-baked cookies and other "comfort Items," along with a note of thanks, are sent overseas to let deployed American military persons, on the front, living in tents or temporary quarters, know that people at home are remembering them.

www.treatthetroops.org

Toys for the Troops' Kids is a Christmas toy drive sponsored by CRVA Charities, Inc., which benefits children of US Troops stationed over seas during Christmas, or who have sacrificed their lives since the 9-1-1 tragedy.

www.toysforthetroopskids.org

Operation Homefront is a non profit community supporting our troops by helping the families they leave behind when the active duty or reserve member deploys in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps or Coast Guard. Operation Homefront provides aid to military families struggling not only with emergencies, but also the problems of everyday life allowing the deployed servicemember to focus on the demands of their duties abroad.

www.operationhomefront.net

Bake Me A Wish presents Operation Birthday Cake, shipping birthday cakes to Iraq and Afghanistan. Order a cake for a soldier you love, or donate money to help others brighten the birthday of a soldier overseas. 5% of all Bake-Me-A-Wish orders go to support Operation Birthday Cake.

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The US Troop Support Foundation provides care packages and assistance to all military personnel in need

http://www.ustroopsupport.org/

From the group's website:

"The Landstuhl Hospital Care Project (LHCP) is a non-profit organization that
provides comfort and relief items for military members who become sick, injured,
or wounded from service in Iraq, Kuwait, and Afghanistan. Donated items are
distributed to patients at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center (LRMC) in Germany,
the largest American military hospital outside the U.S.; to field hospitals in
Afghanistan and Iraq; and to VA facilities throughout the United States."

Click here for more information.

Xerox is offering a way to send cute postcards to show your support for the troops overseas and it's free.

Click here to do it.

Homes for Our Troops provides specially adapted homes for our severely wounded service members of our military.

http://www.homesforourtroops.org

Here's a job networking site for returning service personnel:

http://hireahero.org/

"Care Packages for the Mind"
Send books, DVDs, games and relief supplies to US soldiers

http://booksforsoldiers.com

Here is a way that Major and Minor League baseball players can help raise money for wounded soldiers being treated at Walter Reed and other military hospitals.

http://www.strikeoutsfortroops.org

If your team is not participating, visit http://www.mlb.com and click on "Team Sites", then find the "Contact Us" link on the bottom of your team's page and lobby them to participate.

Send some Aloha by providing a Ukelele to a soldier in Iraq or Afghanistan

Click here for more details

For only $10 you can send magazine subscriptions to active duty service members overseas or at home. If you don't have a soldier to send a subscription to, they will hook you up.

Click here for all the details

Provides personal cooling systems to troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan

http://www.coolourtroops.com/

Help get comic books to front-line troops and wounded US Service personnel.

More info: http://www.operationcomixrelief.freeservers.com/index.html

Send them to the Citizen 1st Bank in Tyler, Texas and they will get them to the men and women at war right now

For full details visit

http://www.ipods4troops.com/

This organization makes dog tags that soldiers can send to their kids to hold onto while they wait for Mom or Dad to come back. Check it out here.

Dunkin Donuts will send a case of coffee to fifty US service members every month, using a lottery system.

Click here to sign up

JDS Computers is looking for donations of laptop computers that are Pentium II or better to send to the troops. Click here for more information.