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        Policy UpdatesNewsroomReoptimizationBIOGRAPHIESAF Senior Leaders      Pennsylvania Air National Guardsmen Airman 1st Class Igor Karlov, left, and Master Sgt. Joe Sommers, both from the 111th Logistics Readiness Squadron at Horsham Air Guard Station, Pa., work together to create boxes for sorting donated items at a Toys for Tots warehouse in Glenside, Pa., Dec. 22, 2015, Eight logistics and supply Airmen from Horsham AGS collected, sorted and boxed more than 1,000 donated items. (Pennsylvania Air National Guard photo/Tech. Sgt. Andria Allmond)Horsham AGS helps out at Toys For Tots local warehouse
                        
                        
                        Pennsylvania Air National Guardsmen Airman 1st Class Igor Karlov, left, and Master Sgt. Joe Sommers, both from the 111th Logistics Readiness Squadron at Horsham Air Guard Station, Pa., work together to create boxes for sorting donated items at a Toys for Tots warehouse in Glenside, Pa., Dec. 22, 2015, Eight logistics and supply Airmen from Horsham AGS collected, sorted and boxed more than 1,000 donated items. (Pennsylvania Air National Guard photo/Tech. Sgt. Andria Allmond)
                
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Guardsmen use logistics skills to relieve toy donation stockpilePublished Dec. 28, 2015
                    
                    By Tech Sgt. Andria Allmond
                    
                    
                    111th Attack Wing Public Affairs
            **HORSHAM AIR GUARD STATION, Pa. (AFNS) --**Eight Airmen from the Pennsylvania Air National Guard’s 111th Logistics Readiness Squadron used brain, brawn and a little military training to overhaul a congested Toys for Tots warehouse in Glenside, Pennsylvania, a few days before Christmas.The decision to help came from Capt. Dan Taylor, who serves as a logistics readiness officer for the 111th Attack Wing at Horsham Air Guard Station.“We were making a drop off and noticed that they were inundated with donations,” Taylor said. “After seeing the bottleneck, there was no way that we could leave them in that state."Taylor rallied some of the wing’s top logistics and supply technicians and led the Airmen to the warehouse. According to Toys for Tots volunteer John Soghomonian, the guardsmen’s few hours of labor accomplished the equivalent of days of work by overwhelmed volunteers.Within a two-hour timeframe, the guardsmen retrieved, sorted, packaged, and hauled more than 1,000 donated items.“(Soghomonian) said that they are about 25 percent over what they normally receive and are having a hard time keeping up,” said Master Sgt. Joe Sommers, the 111th LRS material management flight chief. “So, while it’s good that they’ve had so many donations, being an organization that runs solely on volunteer support, they’re overwhelmed with the sheer amount of donations here."Sommers said the influx of donations normally runs in spurts of 10,000 to 20,000 items at a time. This year, the organization saw toys coming in at a range of 13,000 to 25,000 at a time, which pushed the already-overextended volunteer team well past its current capability.“These are good people volunteering their time to a great cause. Helping them out wasn’t even a question," Taylor said. "This is what being a guardsman is about -- it’s about being an upright steward to the community.”guardsmen 



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