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Socks for Heroes Reaches Major Milestone
The nonprofit has sent more than 203,000 pairs of socks overseas May 2011, founder Jim Hogan told Patch.
Socks for Heroes has passed a major milestone in support of deployed Marines.
Socks are vital for deployed Infantry Marines and it’s difficult for a unit to keep up with demand, according to San Clemente Marine Corps Support Group web site:
Well the infantry spends all of their time on their feet.
They have no laundry facilities, so they have to wash their socks in the canals and air dry them. While in California, this would be no problem, but where they are located, the sand and grit gets into them and make them unusable within a couple of days. Speaking to over 100 field Marines, the answer was uniform: “Send us Socks.”
They have no laundry facilities, so they have to wash their socks in the canals and air dry them. While in California, this would be no problem, but where they are located, the sand and grit gets into them and make them unusable within a couple of days. Speaking to over 100 field Marines, the answer was uniform: “Send us Socks.”
The site also shows just how many socks a unit goes through in a month:
A Marine Battalion is a thousand men. Multiply that by a change of socks every 3 days. That means a minimum of ten thousand socks a month.
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