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- [Narrator] Anyone who's ever been away from family

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knows how nice it is to get happiness from home.

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Those are feelings that folks from the

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910th Airlift Wing intend to deliver in bulk,

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in the form of delicious baked goods.

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^- Basically, we found, as people deploy,

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^all the families want to do is do something to help,

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so we set up a few things.

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We had a deployed family harvest party for them,

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and this is our cookie bake.

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We were hoping to make over 200 dozen cookies,

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and those are going to be shipped overseas

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to all the deployers.

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- [Narrator] 200 dozen?

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It must take days to make that many cookies, right?

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- Well, we set up a craft station,

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because we had a lot of crafts left from our deployed

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family harvest party, so we have kids doing those,

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and then we have people in the back running the ovens,

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people in the back putting cookies on the trays,

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and then people are packaging them up after.

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- [Narrator] Volunteers work like a well-oiled machine

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to provide something for everyone's taste.

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- I think we counted seven or eight.

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And all the cookies were donated,

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so we were very blessed this year.

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We had tons of donations coming in.

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We actually had a VFW donate an entire box

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of Bigelow Tea that they had a special message

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to the troops put on there, so it's just awesome.

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We've just had a huge outpouring.

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People just really want to help.

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They haven't forgotten we're deploying,

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and this is a good way for them to do it,

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so they were thankful to do it.

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- [Narrator] Deployments can be hard,

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but knowing you're always in the thoughts

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of those back home does help ease the burden.

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For the 910th Airlift Wing Public Affairs Office,

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I'm Tech Sergeant Marshall Hunsaker.

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(echoing booming)

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