We have another great Supply Crate deployment to check in on. This one comes to us from John who is in the Army. Keep reading to check out the full request! This is the classic reason of why Stack Up exists, to help the troops with gaming during their downtime overseas. From the stories of our own CEO, we know all too well how gaming can help make deployment just a little bit easier with a small taste of home. We were only too happy to answer John’s request and went to work p

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It is time for us to check in with another amazing Supply Crate shipment! This one heads out to some soldiers stationed in Afghanistan. Brian reached out to us to secure some gaming fun for the troops under his command. Check out the full request below… We are the 368th Military Police Detachment “BOONIE DOGS” Deployed in Bagram Afghanistan. Our Mission is to Protect the Customs Territory of the U.S. by conducting Customs pre-clearance of Personnel and Cargo. We currently fel

We check in with another great Supply Crate deployment. This request comes to us from Chris who is a chaplain for his battalion. Check out the original request below! I’m currently serving as the battalion chaplain, for 1-16 IN BN, 1ABCT, 1ID from Fort Riley, KS. We are currently deployed to Camp Humphreys, Korea, till the summer of 2017. We have 700 Soldiers (married, single, etc..) who need support for the holiday season. Thank you!! We here at Stack-Up were happy to oblige

We are still checking in with some of the recipients of our massive Holiday Cheer Supply Crate shipment. This time we take a look at Holiday Cheer 13. Chaene. who is in the Army. sent us over the following request… We have more than 30 years of deployments and time overseas amongst us all to include deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo and so on. The care packages would serve multiple purposes from home use to benefiting multiple Soldiers in what we call Day Rooms so othe

We check in with another Supply Crate this one Code Named: Holiday Cheer 5! It comes to us from Steven who is an Army Helicopter pilot. He sent us in the following request… Hello, my name is Steven and I am a helicopter pilot as well as the Supply Officer for my unit currently deployed to Kandahar. We run 24-hour flight operations and the men and women in our unit work unbelievably hard to keep the flights going and the maintenance on track. I would love to be able to get the

Supply Crate HOLIDAY CHEER 2 checking in! Justin was a machine gunner with an Infantry company with two trips to Afghanistan under his belt that, by the time his second tour was over, he was convinced his platoon sergeant was trying to kill him. Justin ended up being asked to leave the service under a general discharge with a 60% disability rating from the VA, most of which was for severe post-traumatic stress disorder. His request stated: “I am a veteran. During my military

With PAX South a few hours away, the Stack-Up volunteer team from San Antonio decided to call an audible and descend on San Antonio’s Brooke Army Medical Center for a little supporting the troops. Brooke is one of the military’s largest medical installations; if you have anything medical to do in your job with the military, you spend some time in San Antonio getting trained up. Brooke also sports one of the world’s leading burn treatment facilities as well, which made it quit

This past PAX South 2017 was, as always, a fabulous extravaganza of video gaming fun! We here at Stack-Up had the great honor of spending it in the company of two remarkable individuals, Mary and James, our PAX South 2017 Air Assaults. We sat down to chat with these two about their experience in San Antonio at PAX South and now we would like to share that with you. Sit back and hit play as we experience the magic of PAX through the eyes of these two amazing veterans! We are t

Time to check in with another Supply Crate we recently deployed downrange. This request came to us from Casey stationed in Iraq. I’m a HH-60M Blackhawk Crew Chief currently fulfilling a Medevac deployment in Iraq. Our unit’s mission is to provide area medical evacuation support for coalition forces operating in our area of responsibility. Our unit operates in 24hr on call shifts, meaning we spend 24hrs on call at the flight line to perform Medevac missions, then we have 24hrs

With PAX South 2017 rapidly approaching we wanted to take a moment to introduce to the incredible Veterans who will be joining us on what will be the first of many Air Assault missions in 2017! Our Air Assault program is where Stack-Up hand-picks deserving veterans and pays for them to attend life-changing video game and geek culture events, whether it be a Comic-Con, an Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), a Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) or even a game developer studio tour. With t

Today we are checking in with a special Supply Crate request. This one comes to us from Daniel and his Special Forces group. You may remember Daniel from our #GivingFriday campaign. Take a look at Daniel’s request below! “We’re an ODA (ODA = Operational Detachment: Alpha = Special Forces “A-Team”) with attachments working in Africa with little to no access to amenities. We would love to receive a package to put in our team area in order to pass the time and relax.” Thanks to

Today we check in with a special kind of Supply Crate request. Not all of our Crates are shipped downrange or overseas. Sometimes we get a request from a trooper who just needs their spirits lifted a bit back at home. Read on to check out this latest request we received from Dane who is medically retired from the Army. I don’t know if I qualify because I’m not in a hospital or currently deployed. I just thought it would be worth a shot to help establish some morale as I live

Hello, my name is Joe, and I am a disabled combat veteran, I struggle with PTSD. Please understand that I am not speaking for everyone that struggles with PTSD and I am by far not an expert but I struggle with PTSD daily, so maybe what I have to say might help someone. I served for twelve years in the U.S. Army; I wasn’t the most hard charging-ist soldier you might have met but I wanted to be great at what I did, and I got to serve with some amazing people. Then, one day, I w

We have another great Stack-Up Supply Crate to talk about! This time coming at us from Armando in the Army. He reached out to us looking to turn to gaming for a bit of R&R when him and his team have some down time. Read the full request below… Our group was asked to recently deploy to Afghanistan. Like many units, we have been moved around throughout the Area of Operations. We are currently in a small camp with no PX (Post Exchange) and limited amenities. We are tasked to pro

We have another great Supply Crate update for you! The request came to us from Chris who is in the Army! He reached out to Stack-Up looking for a bit of a Morale Booster. You can read his full request below! My group is a bunch of great Joes with awesome leadership. We deployed on short notice, “10 months over here” with our “2-month train-up beforehand.” We are an all Infantry unit, and love our job! Doing what you love and having fun with it is the true “American Dream.” No

We are checking in with our latest Supply Crate shipment. This request was sent to us from Sergio who comes from a communications unit that is lacking morale and team boosting activities. Read on to check out the request from Sergio below… We’re a communication unit combine from different states. Some soldiers are from Puerto Rico, Arkansas, and California that support air control. Although we are from different states, we try to maintain a sense of cohesion and family orient

It’s time to check in with another amazing Supply Crate Shipment! Recently William reached out to us asking for some games and entertainment for a remote base in Eastern Afghanistan. Check out his request below! I am writing to you to see if there is anything you can donate to help outfit the unit MWR we are currently constructing. You can rest assured knowing anything that we receive I will ensure remains unit property and will not go home with one or two individuals at the

We just recently got back some photos from one of our Supply Crate shipments. Codenamed SURPRISE TWIST 4, this latest shipment was sent to a group of around thirty Army medical and aviation personnel. The request was spearheaded by CPT Ryan, who wrote to us asking for some gaming gear…. F/7 is a detachment of DUSTOFF Air Ambulance personnel, serving in Afghanistan. The items provided by your organization are a great outlet for the unit as our ready up crews await a MEDEVAC ca

We here at Stack-Up.Org love when we get pictures back from the troops enjoying their supply crates. It is one of the reasons we do what we do, to much the suck…less so. Recently we sent out a supply crate, not to the front lines but closer to home here in San Diego to a young soldier facing a different kind of battle with cancer. You may have seen the video REVERSE UNBOXING, Ep 3: Brendan from San Diego VA Hospital, well the supply crate codenamed “Silver Bullet” has reached