Welcome Home Activities

Hello Mad Fox Families,

Great news!! The end of deployment is in sight and our Mad Foxes will be returning soon!! We do not have any definite dates as of yet, but we are looking at an early June time frame. We will be sending out emails quite often with any changes or updates concerning the flights and homecoming preparations, so please check your email daily.

With that said we have several projects we will be working on for our Sailors return and are hoping our Mad Fox families here at home will join in the fun and help make this the best homecoming VP-5 has ever seen!!

The following projects we will be needing help with are as follows:

Single Sailor Barracks Room Fix up. - We have several sailors who will be coming back from deployment to no families and stark bare rooms. Our goal is to brighten their rooms with welcome home posters, fix their beds, and leave goodie bags in their rooms so they know their extended Mad Fox Family welcomes them home as well.

Front Fence Cup Sign - The message - Welcome Home VP-5 – is written out using red plastic cups on the front entrance to the base letting our Sailors know they were missed and all who enter the base will know WE LOVE OUR MAD FOXES and are glad they are home at last!

Pillow Case Banners - The pillow cases which some of our family members have made for their Sailor will be displayed in the hanger. If you have not made your pillow case and wish to do so there is still time!

Welcome Home Signs – Signs for the Barracks rooms as well as signs to hang in the hanger for the homecoming.

Cookie bake – Although MWR does provide snack foods for the families to enjoy while waiting on the plane to arrive, special home made cookies and brownies (or any finger foods) would be a welcome treat for the families as well as adding some to the Single Sailor bags. Nothing says welcome home & your loved like home made goodies!

If you would like to help with any of the homecoming projects please let me know which one by giving me a call 904-269-6104 or email me at l.naylor@comcast.net.

Remember this is our homecoming, join in the fun and together let’s make it the best homecoming ever!