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Nellis’ 2015 Feds Feed Families campaign ends
By Airman 1st Class Mikaley Kline
99th Air Base Wing Public Affairs
NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. — The annual We wanted to raise awareness rather than pester U.S. Coast Guard image
Feds Feed Families campaign ended here Oct. 2 Airmen to donate.”
with over 28,000 pounds of goods collected at Nellis Guire, 99th Contracting Squadron contract special-
AFB and 184,000 pounds collected throughout Air Feds Feed Families was launched in 2009 as part ist. “Just seeing the massive collection of goods and
Combat Command. of the United We Serve campaign put into action by knowing that they’re going to families in the local
President Barack Obama. Since 2009, the drive has Las Vegas area who need it, especially since we are
Nellis Air Force Base partnered with Three Square collected approximately 39 million pounds of food nearing the holiday season.”
Food Bank in Las Vegas to collect and deliver the to help those who need it.
non-perishable goods to communities all over the For more information on the Feds Feed Families
United States. “For me, the most rewarding part of participating campaign, visit the U.S. Department of Agriculture
is seeing the end result,” said Tech. Sgt. Michael Mc- website at http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/
“This year the food drive was split up between the usdahome?navid=feds-feed-families.
commissary and the military organizations,” said 1st
Lt. Keith Van Dyck, 99th Logistics Readiness Squad-
ron Fuels Management Flight commander. “A week
into the drive the commissary had already collected
and donated about 24,000 pounds of food. We knew
our role wasn’t going to be to collect as much as it
was to help raise awareness.”
The military organizations at Nellis AFB, not
including the commissary, collected over 4,500
pounds of food.
“This year was different than last because they
decided to split the commissary from the military
organization side,” said Van Dyck. “On the organi-
zational side we are at a disadvantage because the
commissary is so good at this. They had little bags
out for people to take with them to the check-out.
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