You can also follow HuffPoImpact on Twitter and become a fan on Facebook. I thought I did, but I never felt it until I started getting up early to feed the soldiers.'” Deihl says, ‘I never felt the spirit of Christmas. Each December 25, Deihl rises at 4 a.m., ‘getting up when Santa’s just putting his sleigh away,’ to prepare a lavish traditional feast for soldiers. The interview shows that preparing meals for service members is about much more than just food: “Deihl’s favorite holiday to feed the troops is Christmas.
OCU is an ongoing partnership between the Greater Atlanta Chapter of the American Culinary Federation and USO of Georgia to feed Troops traveling through the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta.
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(USO Photo by Michael Clifton)Ĭontinuing this week’s HuffPost Impact series “ Breaking the Roles” is today’s profile of Michael Deihl, the Executive Chef at the East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Georgia, and one of the founders of Operation Chefs Unite. Army Sergeant Sherree Vannoy, 28, from New York City is served lunch by USO Volunteer Larri Milligan the Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport USO on Feb 14 as part of the Operation Chefs Unite Valentine's Day buffet. They brought warmth and comfort to an otherwise cold and desperate situation.” “If we had been trying to do all of this without the USO … we definitely would have had problems,” she said. Honestly, they probably wouldn’t have eaten. I don’t even want to know what would have happened had the USO not been here. They’re all so confused and lost because they haven’t had any training yet. “For many of them, it’s the first time they’ve left home. “My group alone was more than 300 recruits,” she said. But for Rosel, taking action was the natural thing to do. Hunter was amazed at how quickly Army recruits jumped in to help out with the toddlers so these mothers could tend to their infants. “One had a son who was 2 years old, laughing and having fun - it was an adventure for him - but she also had, and was probably 8 months pregnant on top of that.” “They are stuck here for who knows how long,” Hunter said. And when they needed a place to lie down, Hunter constructed rest areas out of of body-length ottomans. Many of those mothers had placed their diaper supply inside their checked luggage. He quickly realized that it wasn’t the young soldiers who needed his help most, but instead the young wives and family members traveling with small children.
It took Hunter three hours to get to the Airport, but he was determined to help. Richard Hunter, who couldn’t wait to repay the USO for the help he received as a young lance corporal more than 40 years ago. One of them was Vietnam-era Marine Staff Sgt. She knew she would be short-staffed because of the icy roads, so she called in reinforcement volunteers. “We’ve been open and operating 24 hours per day, feeding and serving thousands upon thousands of nervous recruits, expectant mothers and unaccompanied families who were on their way to see their sons or daughters, brothers or sisters graduate from boot camp,” said Mary Lou Austin, CEO of USO of Georgia.Īustin – who hasn’t left the airport since the storm hit on Tuesday – went through a similar “snowpocalypse” nearly three years ago to the day. Lindsay Rosel, center right, and other troops have been stuck at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport since Tuesday.
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