OPERATION CAMO KIDS Our objective is to work with children of honorably discharged veterans, active military, reservists, or any military designation recognized as a disabled veteran, who do not have the necessities to succeed in life or school. This program is designed to meet financial burdens of the neediest first, but will strive to serve any children who meet our criteria.

The 2018 federal poverty level income numbers below are used to calculate eligibility for Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). These same government established numbers are the first measuring stick we will use, but the human condition and one's station in life are equally important. If there is any way we can help you, we will. If we need to reach out to our sponsors and donors, we will.

$16,460 for a family of 2

$20,780 for a family of 3

$25,100 for a family of 4

$29,420 for a family of 5

$33,740 for a family of 6

$38,060 for a family of 7

$42,380 for a family of 8

Families have to reach out for assistance. Cincinnati has other charitable organizations that specialize in advocating for only military children, but they get overburdened quickly.

We have many corporate and military contacts in the Cincinnati area. We participate in quality functions and are prepared to run programs for the children of our military tailored to their specific needs.

OPERATION COLLEGE CAMO We are introducing this initiative to help fill in the gaps that our military enrolling or returning to college will face. We'll let the government handle the tuition and board and help our military with all the other things that add up to make college so expensive.

We have the ability to purchase new laptop computers via a veteran-owned business and another veteran IT business owner who can provide us with refurbished laptops.

We will focus on the items like books, laboratory fees, inkjet printers, graphing calculators, mini-refrigerators, and campus-related swipe cards for purchasing essentials on campus.

These items add up fast and many students have to load up credit cards to get essentials. Every situation will be vetted individually, the awards based on the government money being used and of course FASFA-related data.

The incidentals can add up to thousands of dollars. Laptops needs to be continually upgraded to keep pace with university programming and of high quality to run these programs expeditiously. 

There are many veterans who served and are headed off to college. We want to make their transition as easy as possible and reduce the fees that put them in financial duress.

I have completed the My GI Appropriations Estimate for a program, that if funded, would help a great many military students in the Cincinnati area. We are searching for the $79,950 it would take to fully fund this initiative.

OPERATION RETIRED VET We understand that while military benefits for the duration of our vet's lives are covered by our tax dollars allowing, in part, for care at our VA Hospitals or on certain miitary governed or government owned facilities.

However just like most retirees our vets live on fixed incomes with some great benefits for their service to our country.

Right now the Vietnam veterans are the demographic we seem to draw the most attention from and we do everything we can do to serve them.

Our mission here is partly financial, but there are many services our retired vets simply need labor help with like replacing wooden steps or tearing our brush that has overtaken their yard. Those are services we can use volunteer veterans to help with alongside My GI personnel.

We hold an annual banquet called Cincy's Soldiers and many of our honorees are retired military. We also hold a Soldier of the Year banquet every other year and all honorees  for this wonderful evening are retired.

Both of my grandfathers are retired and served in the Army and Air Force respectively. Please do reach out if there is anything we can help you with.

THANK YOU for your service!