A new program called “Giving Thanks” will allow civilians to show their appreciation to military personnel overseas through a simple text message.
The program starts November 17 and ends on Thanksgiving. During this time civilians or corporations can text whatever they want to military men and women. The specific number they have to use in order to initiate the text session is 89279. The best part about the program is that in most cases the service member being texted will be able to send a return message.
Almost all of the major cell phone companies will be participating in the Giving Thanks program. These include Sprint, T-Mobile, Nextel, Verizon and AT&T. Participants using these services would text in the same way they would any other cell phone. In some cases they may even be able to send a text online.
Civilians or corporations who participate in the program will be given a chance to visit the American Supports You website. Here the participants will be able to see several sets of text samples that others have sent. This will give them an idea of the types of messages that are best to send. Additionally, participants will also be given an opportunity to see what the troops themselves have to say.
Giving Thanks is also available to individuals who speak Spanish as their native language. They simply text what they want to say in Spanish instead of English. By including Spanish text messages, non-English speaking Hispanics also get a chance to receive the recognition they deserve from members of their community.
tinker air force base adopted the LEAN program from the Japanese and it is ruining us. We fix old aircraft not build them on an assembly line. If is costing us work, we can’t get parts because they LEANed everything and now its at a order it as we need it which does not work for aircraft parts that are made by very few companies and it takes sometimes months to even make some items and we are on waiting list to get the few parts made a year….we used to have extra parts in storage now nothing. We were stunned in our last meeting with section blaming us for not producing the numbers to make him look good. Why don’t you go to japan and see what they do to save money. They only pay there employees $18 dollars an hour to toyota cars. I couldn’t even afford to buy a used toyota and still afford to live in a lower middle income lifestyle. stupid idea really.