Current Projects

1.  Presentation to the Foundation's Bank trustees to solicit and incorporate major service organization employing 65,000+ employees with approximately 3 million monthly customers.  Beneficiaries will be random employees, customers, but most importantly the men and women serving our country against the war on terror in Afghanistan and Iraq and their families who share in the sacrifice.  Assistance in elevating awareness is Jeff Rense of Rense Radio (www.renseradio.com) and Ms. Devvy Kidd, live talk-show host (www.devvy.com) from Monday-Friday at 6PM PDT / 7PM MDT / 8PM CDT / 9PM EDT. 

2.  Pillows for Patriots -- to raise capital and provide transportable field pack size pillows carried by our young men and women engaged in combat for Operation Iraqi Freedom and Afghanistan's Operation Enduring Freedom. 

3.  Lobbying efforts to Sen. Mitch McConnell & Sen. Lamar Alexander to secure 11 Carl Gustaf 84mm Recoilless Rifles for the 1st & 32nd Squadron, 1BCT of the 101ST Airborne. 

Upon reading an Afghanistan ambush report recently, it was followed with a request to procure the 84mm RR's for use during Security & Logistical Patrols and aid our soldiers in a defensive manner should an ambush occur. 

The Foundation strongly supports our 2nd Amendment rights but doesn't hold any type of "firearms dealership" authorization nor do we envision the need to establish one in the future. 

We will, however, use any/all resources to facilitate the transfer of such weaponry and help insure the safety of our combat troops against whatever offensive threat perceived.  Should a "Mission Needs Statement" be denied, we will progress with Private Funding.

February 19, 2010 -- we have been advised the Carl Gustaf 84mm Recoilless Rifles will be supplied to the requesting units in theatre.

April 26, 2010 -- Notification received the Carl Gustaf 84mm Recoilless Rifles arrived at FOB per request.

Request for 10,000 pillows by three Brigades of the 101st Airborne/Fort Campbell, KY prior to deployment to Afghanistan this winter and spring.

Anonymous Donor - Houston, Texas dedicated to the 101st Airborne

Gerry Carroll, Jupiter Dive Center/Pompano Dive Center dedicated to the 101st Airborne

Tim Young & The Auto Shoppe, Murfreesboro, TN dedicated to the 101st Airborne

** Immediate request for 50 pillows from A Company, 15th MI BN (AE), Fort Hood, Texas.  Est. cost at present rates for domestic shipping:  $112.50** 

***Immediate request for 850 pillows for overseas shipment for the HHD, 180th TRANS BN, Fort Hood, Texas currently in Afghanistan.  Est. cost at present rates:  $2,762.50

Within 24 hours of these requests, Air Routing International, Houston, Texas, its owners, management, and staff, volunteered to meet the needs of these troops.  They have donated $2,875 for both requests.  An additional donation for $1,000 from an anonymous donor and Patriot from Houston.  (With deepest gratitude from the Robert Mack Foundation in support of the "Pillows for Patriots" program). 

	

Barb Farrior, Co-founder of "Pillows for Patriots"

distributing pillows to pre-deployed units.

Barb Farrior & friend on location at

Rockefeller Plaza for Today Show 

What it's all about - to give something back and show
our gratitude to those engaged in the Global War on Terror.

 Marine Lt. Jonathan Bush, on watch in Helmand Province in Afghanistan

(photo courtesy of David Furst/AFP/Getty images; article by Lara Kakes of the Boston Globe)