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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – More than 500 U.S. Air Force and Space Force recruiters, support staff and leadership volunteered their blood, sweat and time volunteering in and around the local area of southern New Jersey during a community-service day, Oct. 20, 2021.
The 360th Recruiting Group, which is responsible for one-third of all U.S. Air Force and Space Force accessions, is hosting their annual end of fiscal year training conference at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino from Oct. 18 to 22. In an effort to show appreciation and invest in the local community, the 360th RCG partnered with several non-profit organizations on Wednesday for volunteer work across southern New Jersey.
“Parents and families support our recruiters with everything we do, wherever we are,” said Tech. Sgt. Noah Dankocsik, an enlisted accessions recruiter with the 314th Recruiting Squadron in Toms River, N.J., who volunteered at a bayside clean up event in Ventnor City. “There’s nothing much more significant than volunteering your future for the defense of this great nation, and this community, like many others, have given us their sons and daughters in support of that mission.”
Every conference attendant was requested to sign up for a volunteer event, bring a canned food item, school supplies for a backpack drive, and items to be sorted and delivered in blessing bags for the homeless community.
“We believe it’s our distinct honor and duty to invest in a community that has invested so much in us,” said U.S. Air Force Col. Jeffrey T. Rosa, commander of the 360th RCG. “Recruiters are very much a part of the communities they live and work in, and this is a small thank you for the support and appreciation they show us daily.”
That 360th RCG’s collaborative impact was tallied as follows:
Surfrider Foundation - South Jersey hosted 110 volunteers, who picked up 44 bags of trash totaling 559 pounds on Wellington Avenue in Ventnor Beach, N.J.
Volunteers donated 140 backpacks with notebooks, pencils, pens, folders, binders and markers to four schools in the surrounding area including Middle School of Pleasantville, Chelsea Heights Middle School, Richmond Avenue School and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School complex.
Conference attendees donated 253 boxes of non-perishable food totaling 1,168 pounds to the Community Foodbank of New Jersey.
Volunteers donated 188 “Blessing Bags” of hygiene items, cold weather clothing, toothpaste and toothbrush kits, socks and gloves, juice boxes and other various items to Angels in Motion to be distributed to the homeless community.
Forty volunteers also contributed their time and effort to the South Jersey Horse Rescue to walk horses, rake, mow grass, shovel waste, groom horses, trim trees and pick up trash on the property.
Additionally, 47 Airmen donated 47 units of blood to the American Red Cross.
The 360th RCG is one of three recruiting groups responsible for inspiring, engaging and recruiting the future generation of Airmen and Guardians. It includes approximately 900 active duty and civilian personnel in nine squadrons, 333 recruiting offices, and 14 military entrance processing stations across 1.2 million square miles spanning Michigan to Maine, down to South Carolina and all of Europe and Africa.
| Date Taken: | 10.20.2021 |
| Date Posted: | 10.21.2021 12:36 |
| Story ID: | 407689 |
| Location: | ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY, US |
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