Operation Uplink

In all areas of the world, whether it be in the United States or overseas, over two million deployed military personnel, and also hospitalized veterans, have trouble with being far from home and no way to communicate with loved ones.

OPERATION UPLINK was started in 1996. It provides free pre-paid phone cards to active-duty service members and hospitalized veterans. Over 4,000,000 phone cards have been distributed - amounting to over 60,000,000 minutes of phone time. This is all posible due to the support of VFW and Auxiliary members.

Ever since the events of September 11, 2001, the need for OPERATION UPLINK cards has been tremendous with the thousands of troops that have been deployed to one "hot spot" or another. This is why OPERATION UPLINK is so important to active duty personnel, it provides them with a means of communicating with home.

OPERATION UPLINK can also make an immediate difference in the lives of hospitalized veterans by providing them with a means of communicating with loved ones that may be far away.

If you would like to order an OPERATION UPLINK card for you or someone else, please click on the following link. These cards are provided free under the OPERATION UPLINK program. Just complete the information requested in the link, and send it on-line.

State Farm Insurance has donated $63,755 toward OPERATION UPLINK. As of January 2005, more than 7,000,000 phone cards have been given out since OPERATION UPLINK began. To read more about this, click on the link below.

R.J. Reynolds Company's Doral brand conducted a "Seals for Soldiers Fund". promotion asking Doral smokers from across the country to donate pack seals. As a result of this, the company has made a $520,000 donation to OPERATION UPLINK. It will be used to purchase over 1,000,000 minutes of calling time for service men and women. This year marks the 10th anniversary of OPERATION UPLINK, and it has distributed more than 7.5 million phone cards since starting.