Month of the Military Child Recognition Day

Arizona Operation Military Kids in partnership with the Arizona National Guard Family Programs presents…


MONTH OF THE MILITARY CHILD RECOGNITION DAY
Saturday, April 9th 11:00am – 4:00pm


This event is for the whole Family and includes a picnic-style lunch, an AZNG VIP welcome, plus interactive activity stations hosted by various military and community partners.

Events include a rock wall, static educational displays, ball toss, F-16 simulator, fire truck, crafts & much, much more!

Join us as we salute our Military Youth and their Families!

This event is FREE! Pre-registration required. Visit www.jointsupportservices.org for registration information
This event is open to all current Military Families　
All Branches - Active Duty, Guard and Reserves
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I volunteered for the morning shift, 9-12, for this event today and nearly froze. My. Butt. Off. The weather was supposed to warm!

What we got was cold and rain. There were supposed to be more vendors there, and an Apache helicopter was supposed to land there, but some of the vendors bailed (due to the weather) and the 'copter couldn't get clearance to leave its location. Which kinda sucked. I would've enjoyed seeing that.

The Phoenix Suns Gorilla was supposed to show up, as was Howler, the Phoenix Coyotes mascot, but I don't know if they showed. A slightly paunchy Spiderman was there, too, which I thought I was hilarious.

I was in the registration area, so at least we were covered, and we put together a lot of good bags for the kids: journals, stickers, suckers, canteens, caribiners, pens, pencils, pins, hats, CDs...tons of stuff. And they had some goodies to raffle off, too. Including Build A Bear animals! Too cute. I hope more people came in the afternoon and signed up for that raffle because there was A LOT of cool stuff.

When I got home, I stood underneath a hot shower for 15 mins to get warm. I'm so glad I wore a turtleneck, sweatshirt and coat. I even had gloves on and I was still cold! I felt sorry for other people who showed up in just short sleeve shirts and hoodies. One college kid showed up in long basketball shorts! Definitely not warm clothing. Crazy, it's like these people don't check the weather before leaving the house.

Still I had fun participating. A few people from my job were there on the same shift as me and I got a chance to meet other people from different organizations as well as people who came out to support family service members. Pretty cool