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Mile for Mile Matching this Memorial Day Weekend! This weekend, the participating airlines will match your donation mile-for-mile, from 6 AM, Friday, May 25th through 11:59 pm, Monday, May 28th. Now is the time to donate those unused miles in your frequent flyer accounts! |
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Giving Up Your Seat to Someone in Need; But when it came to tickets for the rest of the family, her father and stepmother depended on the Fisher House Foundation, a charity for military families that distributes airline tickets it receives from Delta and other airlines through Operation Hero Miles. New York Times, November 15, 2004 |
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'Operation Hero Miles' Expands to Families of Wounded Troops; Alice Rodgers, a single mother, paid more than $1,000 for round-trip tickets from Tipton, Iowa, so she and her daughter, Lindsey, could visit her son, who is recuperating at Walter Reed Army Medical Center here from wounds he suffered in an ambush in Iraq. DefenseLINK News, December 30, 2003 |
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R&R task force 'doing what we can' to cover troops' travel costs in U.S.; There is no guarantee Uncle Sam will pay commercial travel costs within the United States for troops venturing home for some R&R from Iraq and Afghanistan. But one Army official tells troops that one way or another, they'll get you home. Stars and Stripes, December 11, 2003 |
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Americans' gift to troops; Thanks to some well-timed Yankee ingenuity, though, this story appears destined to have a happier ending. Americans are known for their generous spirits - and for hoarding their frequent flier miles. USA Today, December 10, 2003 |
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Operation Hero Miles Gets 5,000 Soldiers Home; TheChamplainChannel.com, November 26, 2003 |
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Law may make troop R&R flights free; It specifically states that the funding applies only to troops leaving Iraq and Afghanistan from approved debarkation points on the R&R program and tickets are paid for flights to those troops' home of record. However, the Army hasn't finalized details and officials have questions about the law. Stars and Stripes, November 16, 2003 |
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Until that money becomes available, hundreds of soldiers are having to pay a good bit of their own air travel home, Poynter Online, November 5, 2003 |
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Do you fly often enough to have a few thousand frequent flier miles, but not enough to go anywhere?, WTOC Savannah, November 4, 2003 |
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Chinook Tragedy Won't Deter Troops' R&R Program, Armed Forces Press Service, November 3, 2003 |
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Soldier dies while heading home for mother's funeral; Among 16 killed by missile attack on U.S. helicopter. Post Gazette, November 3, 2003 |
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R & R program for Mideast is set to expand to 479 troops a day; two new US destinations, Stars and Stripes, October 31, 2003 |
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New Program Lets Fliers Help U.S. Troops Get R & R, Fox News, October 23, 2003 |
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Frequent Flyer Miles Can Be Donated To Soldiers, Channel 3000, October 23, 2003 Includes a survey on whether the military should foot the bill to get these troops all the way home? |
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US Airways, Southwest, Delta, Northwest, American Airlines cut fares for GIs, Washington Business Journal, September 30, 2003 |
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This site is operated in conjunction with the Fisher House Foundation to promote the donation of airline miles for members of the US Armed Forces. Donated miles may be used to allow family members to visit soldiers injured as a result of their service in Iraq or Afghanistan. Page updated/reviewed on May 24, 2007 |
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