[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 196 (Monday, December 9, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6901-S6902]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                RECOGNIZING MILITARY MISSIONS IN ACTION

  Mr. TILLIS. Mr. President, I rise today to pay tribute to Military 
Missions in Action, MMIA, an organization with locations in Fuquay-
Varina and Southern Pines, NC, that is doing tremendous work throughout 
the State of North Carolina for Active-Duty servicemembers, veterans, 
and military families.
  Mr. Mike Dorman founded MMIA in 2008 after a 20-year career in the 
U.S. Coast Guard. Since then, MMIA has worked tirelessly to accomplish 
a wide array of support for servicemembers, veterans, and their 
families. MMIA conducts a number of operations each year such as: 
Operation Building Hope, which gathers volunteers to make modifications 
and repairs necessary for safe and independent living for veterans with 
disabilities; Homes for Healing, through which volunteers provide new 
and gently used furniture and household goods to formerly homeless 
veterans; Operation Rescue Christmas, which provides holiday assistance 
to low-income veteran and military families through gift cards, new 
toys, and monetary support; and Fill the Footlocker whereby comforts 
from home, health, and hygiene items are packaged and shipped to 
deployed servicemembers.
  MMIA completes the operations mentioned above in addition to many 
other projects in community engagement and support with the help of 
volunteers and other collaborators. To date, MMIA has completed 710 
building projects, assisted over 30,500 homeless veterans, provided 
furniture and household goods to 463 families, shipped over 58,000 care

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packages to deployed servicemembers, and assisted 1,620 children 
through Operation Rescue Christmas.
  I would like to thank and recognize the men and women of MMIA and all 
of the volunteers for their continued dedication and support for the 
large servicemember and veteran populations of the State of North 
Carolina and their families.

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