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Helping out here and there Companies try to fill gaps for veterans.

Publication: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
Publication Date: 30-JUN-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Helping out here and there Companies try to fill gaps for veterans.(News)

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Byline: Michael Sean Comerford Daily Herald Business Writer

mcomerford@@dailyherald.com

Preparing for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, 300 Illinois Marine reservists found themselves in Kuwait poised for combat but without tools to maintain their vehicles.

Feverish attempts at swaps, trades and favors proved fruitless. So Marine reservist Chuck Brewer improvised, sending e-mail to his private-sector employer, Hoffman Estates-based Sears.

"Next thing we knew there were $10,000 worth of Craftsman tools in Kuwait City," said Brewer, a USMC major and a Sears vice president. "It was like Christmas in the summertime for us."

It's one of example of how local companies and nonprofit groups continue to be an essential part of the U.S. war efforts in Afghanistan and...

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