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USO AT FORT CARSON===
The USO is a private, nonprofit organization whose mission is to support the troops by providing morale, welfare and recreation-type services to our men and women in uniform. We represent the American people by extending a touch of home to the military. Service members and their families visit USO centers more than 5.3 million times each year. The USO is the way the American public supports the troops and is proud to open our newest center at Fort Carson, CO.
Description:
USO AT FORT CARSON, CO....Since before the United States entered World War II, the USO (United Service Organizations) has been the bridge between the American public and the U.S. military. In times of peace and war, the USO has consistently delivered its special brand of comfort, morale and recreational services to the military. The USO, a congressionally chartered, private, nonprofit organization, relies on the generosity of individuals and corporations to support USO activities.
Today, the USO delivers its programs and services at more than 130 locations around the world. In recent years, the USO opened centers in Kuwait, Qatar and Afghanistan to support service members participating in Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom, as well as centers in Vicenza, Italy, and at the Dallas/Fort Worth, Raleigh/Durham and Denver International Airports. We are proud to offer our service men and women in Southern Colorado our newest USO center at Fort Carson, CO.
Military personnel and family members visited USO centers more than 5.3 million times last year. Services include free Internet and e-mail access, libraries and reading rooms, housing assistance, family crisis counseling, support groups, game rooms and nursery facilities.
The USO reaches out through:
Airport centers, welcoming weary military travelers with a place to rest and the ability to familiarize themselves with their new surroundings
Family and community centers, promoting intercultural understanding and orientation to unfamiliar locations
Mobile USOs, reaching out to troops in remote and sometimes unstable locations
USO celebrity entertainment tours bring volunteer celebrities to entertain, lift morale, and express the gratitude and support of the American people.
For 67 years, the USO's mission has remained the same. The USO will support U.S. troops and their families wherever they serve. Across the United States and around the world, the American military knows that the USO is there for them. By supporting the USO, Americans show their appreciation and express their gratitude to the men and women who defend us.
History:
Since just before World War II, the USO has been the bridge between the American people and our men and women in uniform, conveying the heartfelt appreciation and support of a grateful nation. Whether it is a quiet place to go for rest and relaxation, movies refreshments, or a friendly face, the USO consistently delivers its special brand of service to the military.
For almost seventy years, the USO has meant a little bit of home in a faraway place. Where Americans have gone, the USO has gone. A private in the U.S. Army provided a succinct testimonial to the USO when he wrote in 1941: "Golly, it was good to have a bath...We soldiers will be thankful for it the rest of our lives."
It can truly be said that the USO has represented the best in the American people - compassion, magnanimity, selflessness, service - universally admired qualities that the USO has mirrored to the world at large. For the generations of men and women it has served, the USO has meant friendship, respite, familiarity, warmth, and acceptance.
Inherent in the USO's mission is a simple faith that the world can be made a better place. "So long as we love," Robert Louis Stevenson wrote more than a hundred years ago, "we serve; so long as we are loved by others, we are indispensable."
To the USO...thanks for the memories.
Contact people:
Address:
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1675 Ellis Street Building 1218
Fort Carson, CO 80913
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Web Site: http://www.uso.org
Directions:
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From I-25...take exit 135 (Academy) and head west. Exit B street and take a left at stop sign. Go through Fort Carson and take right on O'Connell Street. Go two blocks and take left on Specker street.. . . (more) |
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