FORT LEE, Va. -- Eleven military communities have been chosen to host the 2017 football ProCamps events for boys and girls.
Winning installations qualified for a camp based on purchases of select items, like Tide, Bounty, Charmin, Head & Shoulders and Old Spice in their local commissaries from March through April. The two-day events are sponsored by Procter and Gamble in partnership with the Defense Commissary Agency and are open for first through eighth grade youth of active duty military, Reservists, retirees, and DOD civilian employees.
This year’s 11 ProCamps sites are: Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark.; Fort Drum, N.Y.; Randolph Air Force Base, Texas; Robins Air Force Base, Ga.; Keesler Air Force Base, Miss.; Naval Base San Diego, Calif.; Tinker Air Force Base, Okla.; Fort Campbell, Ky.; Naval Support Activity Mid-South (Memphis), Tenn.; Hickam Air Force Base, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii; and Langley Air Force Base, Va.
“We are so excited to announce this year’s ProCamps locations,” said Sallie Cauthers, DeCA’s marketing and mass media specialist. “Our communities, especially the children, benefit from our partnership with industry that brings these football stars to their installations. At the same time, our commissary patrons save significantly on quality products versus what they’d have to pay outside the gate.”
This marks the fifth year P&G has partnered with the commissary to run the NFL Military ProCamps program at installations worldwide, said Molly Fanning of ProCamps. “We are so excited to continue to grow the program with top NFL athletes.”
ProCamps manages and operates sports camps around the world led by professional athletes. This year they’ve already conducted camps overseas for military children in the Kaiserslautern Military Community (Germany). At the end of July they will run a camp in the Far East at Camp Humphreys in South Korea.
“These camps teach the fundamentals of football, teamwork and how to make new friends,” Fanning said. “By the end of summer we will have executed more than 50 camps for military youth. We are excited to continue to support military families through this program.”
Football ProCamps will be at Tinker July 13-14 with Tyler Eifert, tight end, Cincinnati Bengals. Day 1 will be from 1 to 4 p.m. and day 2 will be from 9 a.m. to noon. Commissary meet and greet will be July 13 at 4:30 p.m. For more information or to register, contact the Tinker Youth Center at 734-7866. The football ProCamp is open to the first 150 youth who register.