Texas Chapter Highlights Archive

Operation Homefront of Texas Recognizes the Sacrifice of the Military Spouse

By Kimberly Ruiz - Kimberly.Ruiz@OperationHomefront.net Today, we recognize military spouses across the world, whether they are stationed here or overseas. Our brave service members willingly sign up to be the protectors of our country, b …Read More

Saint Arnold Brewing Company Leads The Way To Aid Our Nation's Heroes

Saint Arnold Brewing Company (www.saintarnold.com), the oldest craft brewery in Texas, has been involved in charitable activities in the past – but never anything like ‘Hops for Heroes.’ The undertaking centers around brewing Saint Arnold H …Read More

True Patriots: Larry and Kathi Kilgore's dedication to our Military Families in Texas

We have had the great fortune of helping some amazing people and in turn have had some amazing people volunteer their time, talent and treasure to our Military families here in Texas. Kathi and Larry Kilgore are dedicated, trust-worthy a …Read More

Operation Homefront of Texas honors our Military Children, our Unsung Heroes, with a Certificate of Appreciation

Operation Homefront of Texas is offering a Certificate of Appreciation to honor our Military Children throughout Texas during the month of April. April has been designated as Month of the Military Child by the U.S. Department of Defense. Th …Read More

Join Us at the Armed Forces Day Concert

San Antonio is well-known as Military City, USA, and Operation Homefront seeks to further honor the brave men and women of our armed services, as well as those who have served in conflicts throughout the history of our nation, with an eveni …Read More

National Charity League-San Antonio Rose, continues to support our Military Families this Easter

The San Antonio Rose chapter of the National Charity League has chosen to donate and assembling Easter Baskets for our Military Families right here in Texas. Leigh Ann King, of the San Antonio Rose, shared her thoughts, “It’s a privilege to …Read More

Vietnam Veterans are Welcomed Home - March 30, 2012 in San Antonio

We were in Laredo, TX at the Texas A & M International University Charity Softball Tournament benefiting Operation Homefront of Texas and met Lt. Tomas Ruiz, a Vietnam Veteran, who threw out the first pitch. Lt. Tomas Ruiz, one of the few …Read More

The City of Houston and the Astros Will Honor Our Iraq Veterans on April 7th

UPDATE: We will be going. We couldn't miss an opportunity to honor our Iraq Veterans as several of our loved ones and many of those we know have served willingly in Iraq. Our hope is to honor and support our Service Members and their famili …Read More

Outback SteakHouse is holding several auctions to help our Military Families in Texas

Outback Steakhouse is holding a series of auctions that will benefit our Service members, their families, and our Wounded Warriors here in Texas. Outback Steakhouse has found a way not only to reuse, re-purpose, and recycle, they are givi …Read More

Proudly providing Food For Our Military Families Here In Texas

Food is our number one requested emergency service. With that being said, we want to thank our donors for trusting Operation Homefront of Texas to say 'YES' to this need and many more. The Austin-Statesman contacted President of Operation …Read More

We are fighters. We are survivors. We are military wives. Michelle Cuthrell speaks at Homefront Celebration

Michelle Cuthrell is no stranger to deployments and all that comes with it. She was 23 years old, nine months out of college and 11 weeks pregnant with her first child when her husband deployed to Iraq in August 2005. Michelle was able to …Read More

We have 38 slots left-Register to run with Team OHTX for the 2012 Marine Corps Marathon

UPDATE: Team OHTX has 38 SLOTS left. REGISTER HERE. The 2012 Marine Corps Marathon is officially sold out AND it happened it record time, 2 Hours and 41 minutes, faster than the Boston Marathon! Semper Fi! If you missed the opportunit …Read More

Jobs for Our Veterans - Airgas commits to hiring 100 veterans

For veterans, coming home from war can be bitter-sweet. They proudly accept the obligation to fight for the freedom and safety of their family and country. Then, come home only to find that they cannot protect their family from financial …Read More

Houston and Dallas friends were invited to a special screening of Act of Valor

Thanks to our friends at Miller High Life we were able to give our Dallas and Houston friends some free tickets to a screening of Act of Valor, a ground breaking film starring active-duty Navy SEALs. This powerful story of contemporary glo …Read More

Birdies For Charity 2012

Giving back to your community is at the heart of Birdies for Charity. Birdies for Charity is a fundraising program giving you the opportunity to generate contributions by pledging one cent or more per birdie made during the 2012 Valero Tex …Read More

Ashley Furniture gave 500 mattresses to our Texas Military Families!

Operation Homefront received a very generous donation of 1,300 Ashley Sleep mattresses to be distributed to military families! About 500 king and queen latex mattresses were distributed yesterday in San Antonio. The line of people continue …Read More

Wounded Warrior Wives Invited to Texas Retreat

Operation Homefront is proud to present a free retreat designed exclusively for members of Wounded Warrior Wives—an Operation Homefront program for female caregivers of injured, wounded or ill service members. Wounded Warrior Wives Retre …Read More

Baby Shower Success!

Thank you to the military spouses and moms-to-be, volunteers, and community partners that attended and helped make the baby shower in San Antonio, Texas a huge success. A big 'Thank you' goes out to the many donors for the wonderful items …Read More

Huggies Creates Camo Diapers To Benefit Military Families

Dress your babies cute for a cause! Huggies has created a camo diaper that will be distributed exclusively in Walmart stores across the country. Operation Homefront will get one diaper for every box of Huggies sold, up to 300,000 diapers(ww …Read More

Texas Governor's Commission for Women

Our sincere thanks to the Texas Governor’s Commission for Women for their generous donation of $5,000 to Operation Homefront of Texas. These funds will be used to provide emergency financial assistance to our military families in Texas. T …Read More

Fantastic Sams Makes Generous Donation

Thank you to Fantastic Sams for their recent donation of $6,000 to Operation Homefront of Texas, collected by offering haircuts for back to school at each of their 29 San Antonio locations. We would like to thank Fantastic Sams for this ge …Read More

Follow us on Facebook!

Join the Texas chapter's Facebook page at: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Operation-Homefront-Texas/135558347457?ref=ts Please copy and paste the link and join our page! …Read More

Reusable Tote Bags to Benefit Operation Homefront

Reusable Tote Bags to Benefit Operation HomefrontHow important it is for us to recognize our heroes. This year you can support our troops, celebrate Veteran’s Day and do something good for the environment. In support of U.S. military famili …Read More

The Gift of Giving

When Marine Corporal Neil Frustaglio and his family received the keys to their new home in Marion, Texas from Homes for the Troops, the work was just beginning. Operation Homefront of Texas received a call from Corporal Frustaglio asking f …Read More

Military Heroes

(L to R) Rose Lammey; Petty Officer 1st Class Michael Lammey, US Navy; Medal of Honor Recipient Michael E. Thornton, Lieutenant, US Navy; Staff Sergeant Bobby Henline, US Army; Connie Henline Night to Honor Our Heroes Our thanks to the Val …Read More

Our thanks to the American Legion Auxiliary Unit 281

Our thanks to the American Legion Auxiliary Unit 281 in Gladewater, Texas for making winter caps for our troops. What a blessing. …Read More

New Chapter for an Army Family

Matthew Hunter is working hard to get his life back on track. After returning from Iraq in January of 2008, the former 1st Cavalry Division soldier stationed at Fort Hood, Texas, began showing signs of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). …Read More