Aerospace Firm Breaks Record to Help Troops

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Muhammed El-Hasan
on March 20, 2008 9:21 AM | | Comments (0) |

On Saturday, more than 400 Northrop Grumman empoyees gathered at the companies El Segundo Integrated Systems sector to stuff USO care packages for US personnel stationed in Iraq, Afghanistan and
other overseas locations.

I about six hours, company volunteers assembled 16,200 packages - a USO single-day record.

Each package contains a collection of items deemed "most wanted" by deployed troops.

The gathering marked the second year that Northrop has hosted a care package stuffing event with the USO.

Since 2003, Northrop Grumman employees have also donated more than $310,000 to the USO.

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