At the 2011 Five-Star Gala and Auction, USO Puget Sound Area Board Chairman Malcolm McLellan made a spectacular announcement. The USOPSA received the highest recognition from USO Headquarters in Arlington, Virginia – a Five-Star rating.

Unbeatable service, outreach and enthusiasm are offered to the 500,000 service members and military families coming through the Puget Sound area annually. When the ratings began in 2008, the USOPSA was recognized as a Five-Star Chartered Center. It the first Chartered Center to hold this title for the last three years.

"The men and women who serve our country deserve the best. Our staff and volunteers strive to provide this daily," USOPSA Executive Director Don Leingang said. "It is a great honor for the USOPSA to provide them with places of rest, comfort, services and programs."

For more information on the 2011 Five-Star Gala and Auction, or the renaming of the USOPSA JBLM Center, click here.

The USO Puget Sound Area Mobile has a new look! No longer a white Winnebago, the mobile unit sports a digital camouflage print with the USO Puget Sound Area logo shining bright on every side.

"The Mobile with its new wrap will be a great symbol of USOPSA's support of the service members and their families as it hits the road to provide USO programs and outreach," Executive Director Don Leingang said.

USOPSA's Mobile made its debut at the Veterans Day Parade held in Auburn on November 5, 2011. FastSigns of Olympia-Lacey completed the wrap of the mobile.

Great story about Joan Shalikashvili, USO Puget Sound Area Board Member, volunteer and longtime spouse of former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the late Gen. John Shalikashvili. Joan is a steadfast advocate for USO and our local military families, and we can't thank her enough for her constant and generous support!

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USOPSA Executive Director Don Leingang appeared on KING-5's "New Day Northwest" with Margaret Larson, along with Leslie Mayne, founder of Race For A Soldier, and Army Staff Sergeant Aaron McCarthy.
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USO volunteer Misty Leingang's English students at the French Immersion School of Washington held a teddy bear drive to support the camp for children who have lost a parent in active military duty.

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The Governor declared July 11, 2011 "USO Puget Sound Area Day" in Washington State to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the opening of the USO center at Sea-Tac Airport on July 11, 1966, and the USOPSA's 45 years of serving the local military community. A group including USOPSA board members, staff and USO World Volunteer of the Year 2010 Herb Schmeling went down to Olympia this morning to take pictures AND fly a large USOPSA flag atop the Capitol building.

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Boeing board members and executives spoke with USOPSA Board Chairman Malcolm McLellan and Executive Director Don Leingang about recent renovations to the USO center at Sea-Tac Airport and plans for the donated funds. Boeing has been a long-time supporter of our USOPSA and our local military heroes.

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The winter sun barely warmed the clear and frosty morning Feb. 18, but it made perfect weather for a vigorous walkathon at Surprise Lake Middle School. Throughout the day, every physical education class filed outdoors to the track, the site of the school's first-ever fundraiser for the United Services Organization, more commonly known as the USO.

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Take a look at a new photo gallery of our fine soldiers and USO volunteers from a recent training deployment at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.

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Erin Michael sits down with Don Leingang and Ralph Graves from the USO Puget Sound Area to find out more about how this organization serves our local military community.

Walmart's generous support of USOPSA will help sustain USO centers at Sea-Tac Airport and Joint Base Lewis-McChord, providing 'all the comforts of home' to nearly half a million military personnel and their families each year

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