Operation First Response

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Operation First Response

• Supporting our Nations Heroes and Their Families

You can accomplish great things when you dont
care who gets the credit.
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When our Wounded Say to Us, What Will I Do Now?

• Please Join Me in Saying
• Take my hand and we will get through this
  together and give hope to all that need it.
• -Peggy Baker, Found and President

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Financial Aid

• Each case is based on individual needs,
  including
• Rent/mortgage payments
• Payment of overdue utilities
• Vehicle payments and repairs
• Groceries
• Clothing
• Air transportation
• Ground transportation which includes taxi rides
  to and from DC area airports, dollars given to
  purchase gas for traveling by car to medical
  facilities and train tickets
• Personal requested items by service members and
  their families
• Anything else which might be needed

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How Wounded Soldiers Families are Affected

• Most households in the USA are
• 2-income.
• When our Service Members are
• wounded overseas, they are
• placed in a military hospital,
• almost always far from the home.
• Injuries occurring from the Global
• War on Terror are so severe in many
• cases that recovery time will be long
• term and for others it could become a
• lifetime of needs and support.
• Understandably, a spouse or parent,
• quits their job to be with their loved
• one in time of extreme need.

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How Wounded Soldiers Families are Affected cont

• So household income goes down, and expenses go
  up
• Consequently, a good number of them are losing
  their houses, or having their utilities cut off,
  they cannot manage to keep up.
• Our government is doing all they can but the
  number of wounded is so significant that American
  citizens need to come forward and take
  responsibility for those that fight for our
  Freedoms.
• Because of advances in body armor, and medical
  treatments, casualties which would have died in
  earlier wars, are living now
• There are 30,000 wounded soldiers from the Iraq
  and Afghanistan conflicts.

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Military Family Assistance Program

• OFR provides financial aid to wounded,
• injured and critically-ill service members
• and their families during the recovery
• period of the service member.
• We also provide aid to those who are
• making the transition from military life
• to civilian life after being medically
• retired.
• There is a significant lapse of time, from
• six months to one year, between the
• retirement and the onset of VA benefits,
• causing many families to have utility
• services disconnected, lose homes, and
• not be able to provide for the basic needs
• of their families.
• This aid begins at the onset of injury, and is
• continuously available until transition into
• civilian life is complete.

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Travel Program

• OFR provides air transportation for family
• members of wounded, injured, and
  critically-ill
• service members.
• OFR provides train transportation for family
• members of wounded, injured, and critically-ill
• service members.
• OFR provides car service transportation to and
• from DC area airports to major military medical
  
• facilities for family members of wounded,
  injured
• and critically-ill service members.

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Backpack Program

• OFR sends backpacks to wounded service
• members located at Landstuhl Regional
• Medical Center and combat support units
• located in Iraq.
• These backpacks are filled with a set of
• clothing, hygiene products, a handmade
• blanket, and a phone card and sent to a
• POC to be given to our wounded upon arrival.
• These items enable our wounded to have some
• personal items considering many have their
• uniforms cut off in the battlefield and it may
  takes
• weeks or months for personal items to be
  returned.

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Our Results

• The staff of OFR has had the honor of working
  with our Nation's wounded Heroes and their
  families on a daily basis since 2004. The
  support and generosity of our Volunteers and
  Donors have enabled us to meet literally
  thousands of their needs. Our caring and
  compassionate staff goes above and beyond to
  impress upon our Military, our deep respect and
  gratefulness to each of them.
•  

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More Results

• 2,199 wounded Heroes and their families have
  received assistance with mortgage rent
  utilities vehicle payments groceries and other
  various expenses.
• 1014 wounded Heroes and their families have
  received air transportation.
• 1,033 wounded Heroes and their families have
• received ground transportation and lodging.
• 5,254 OFR Backpacks have been sent to Combat
• Support Hospitals in the Theatre.
• Thousands of wounded Heroes and their family
• members have received emotional support.
• All have received the honor and respect that
• they so rightfully deserve!

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Core Values

• We are determined to make a difference in the
  quality of life for injured or critically ill
  military service members and their families.
• We value, respect, and protect the privacy and
  dignity of the families we serve.
• We accept that we are part of a larger team, all
  dedicated to the same goals and objectives, and
  understand that as a team member, we are
  accountable for our actions, and the reflection
  of those actions upon all such organizations.
• We are honest and trustworthy and do what is
  right when no one is watching.
• We have two main goals, both achievable and
  interdependent.
• One is to be the solution for the military
  family.
• Two is to build a network of support and funding
  with a sense of urgency that supports our vision
  and meets our high ethical standards.

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OFR Needs

• Grants from Charitable Institutions. To be used
  for Operations and for Aid to Our Cases.
• Frequent Flyer (FF) Mile Donations Consolidation
  Ability. Most airlines have Donate Miles to
  Charities pages, where gifts of FF miles, can be
  transferred to the Charitable, without transfer
  fee. At present, we are only able to work with
  FF miles donations each large enough to
  facilitate at least 1 flight. The ability to
  accept a large number of smaller amounts of FF
  miles, could be a huge benefit to us, and our
  wounded soldiers and their families.
• Publicity Campaign, On-Going. To help us quickly
  achieve the above. We work with a limited
  budget, and never have enough FF miles, so we
  have to say no to some requests for aid, while
  we say yes to others, as we are forced to
  decide, which case needs the aid more
  desperately.

OPERATION FIRST RESPONSE
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Contact Us

• Organization Operation First Response, Inc.
  (OFR), 20037 Dove Hill Road. Culpeper, Virginia
  22701 USA.
• EIN 20-1622436. IRS 501(c)(3) tax-exempt
  not-for-profit all volunteer charitable
  organization.
• Telephone [phone], Fax [phone]
• Contact Peggy Baker, Founder/President
• Email info_at_operationfirstresponse.org
• Website www.operationfirstresponse.org
• VP/Treasurer Carolyn Crossley, 2331 Highway P,
  Salem, MO 65560. 573-453-2375
• Secretary Heather Sliwinski, 960 Gladwyn Rd.,
  Warminster, PA 18974. 267-210-6956
• Director of Special Projects Bob ODonoghue, PO
  Box 406, Rocky Hill, CT 06067.
• 203-592-1927.
• Purpose of Donation/Grant Overall funding for
  OFR, Inc.