Press Kit for MarineParents.com

In the past six years, MarineParents.com, Inc. has provided a Place to Connect & Share™ for Marines and their families across the country. This is evidenced by:

Over 90,000 registered members on three message boards for different stages of a Marine's career, from recruit to veteran from every state.
Over 500 emails received and answered by volunteers monthly.
Over 35,000 approved posts monthly.
Over 100 members participating in moderated chat rooms nightly.
Over 12 million hits on the combined 17 web sites each week
Over 1,400 meals have been served to families of injured and hospitalized Marines and Sailors
Over 26,000 cards have been sent to injured Marines and Sailors
60+ volunteers work 520 hours a week supporting Marine Corps families through email, chat rooms and message boards
Five full-time and three-part time staff are employed at the corporate office
From January 2005 to January 2009 over 18,000 care packages have been shipped shipped to Marines in combat zones
Over 190 families in the Gold Star Families support forum and community
Email newsletters sent twice each month to 23,000 readers

Outreach Projects
Additional support for Marines and their families are available through the following Outreach Projects of MarineParents.com, Inc.:

Connections: a Place to Connect & Share
Our mission is to provide a place for families to connect and share with each other. We accomplish this by offering five different venues for communicating with one another and the correct USMC Offices:

Message boards for Marine and Recruit parents
The message boards give the unique opportunity of connecting family members whose Marines are stationed together in Iraq or Afghanistan, or whose recruits are together in basic training (bootcamp)
A chat room is open for three hours each evening and is frequented by folks with questions, and assisted by trained Volunteers from the web site
Live support to talk with a volunteer from MarineParents.com about concerns or questions, or to just be a listening ear
Database of local support military groups to help folks connect with each other in their local communities
Database of USMC Units to learn about the specific unit of a family members Marine, such as location, contact information, phone numbers, mailing addresses, and more

We help families of Marines by answering questions and providing information about

Returning from a combat zone
Legal issues and how to solve problems while Marine is deployed
How to contact the USMC, and who to contact
Ideas on how to support the troops besides care packages
How to start a support group in your community
Military issues such as pay, training, etc
Definitions for military jargon
Training information for Boot, SOI, and MOS
Information about Retrograde (homecomings)
And many more, too numerous to list