Three decades of Operation Fireside continues for Coast Guard
CAPE MAY, N.J. – The Coast Guard and the American Red Cross will place more than 190 Coast Guard recruits with more than 45 local-host families for Thanksgiving as part of Operation Fireside Thursday at 8:45 a.m.
Operation Fireside has placed recruits with South Jersey families during the holiday season since 1981. It allows the recruits to celebrate the holiday with a host family while they’re...
Coast Guard Training Center Cape May Letter to the Editor
Editors Note: Coast Guard Training Center Cape May sent the follow “letter to the editor” to New Jersey newspapers today.
South Jersey Community,
Thank you for your continued and overwhelming support of the Coast Guard this Thanksgiving Day! More than 45 families and organizations will open their homes to approximately 190 of our Nation’s most junior military members. This commitment...
Cape May area families to host Coast Guard recruits for Christmas
CAPE MAY, N.J. – The Coast Guard and the American Red Cross will place approximately 240 Coast Guard recruits with 79 local-host families for Christmas as part of Operation Fireside Sunday at 11:45 a.m.
Operation Fireside has placed recruits with South Jersey families during the holiday season since 1981. The training center may have more than 600 recruits training to become Coast Guardsmen at any...
South Jersey families host Coast Guardsmen for Thanksgiving
CAPE MAY, N.J. – More than 220 recruits from Coast Guard Training Center Cape May had Thanksgiving dinner with 92 families in Southern New Jersey as part of Operation Fireside Thursday.
Families eager to host recruits lined up outside of Coast Guard Guardian Chapel aboard Training Center Cape May where they were met by representatives from the American Red Cross and Coast Guard chaplains. The Southern...
South Jersey families host 250 Coast Guard recruits for Thanksgiving
CAPE MAY, N.J. – The Coast Guard and the American Red Cross will place 250 Coast Guard recruits with 92 local-host families for Thanksgiving as part of Operation Fireside Thursday at 8:15 a.m.
Operation Fireside has placed recruits with South Jersey families during the holiday season since 1981. Coast Guard Training Center Cape May may have more than 600 recruits training to become Coast Guardsmen...
Coast Guard and American Red Cross sponsor Operation Fireside
CAPE MAY, N.J. – Local community members participating in Operation Fireside are scheduled to pick up 370 recruits at Coast Guard Training Center Cape May, Thursday at 9 a.m., to celebrate Thanksgiving.
The Cape May County Chapter of the American Red Cross has sponsored Operation Fireside with training center Cape May since 1981.
“This event strengthens the ties of friendship that exist...
Recruits celebrate Thanksgiving with community members
CAPE MAY, N.J. – Local community members participating in Operation Fireside are scheduled to pick up 452 recruits here at Coast Guard Training Center Cape May, Thursday at 9 a.m., to celebrate Thanksgiving.
