Local Georgia veterans have connected with supporters from Maine to Montana to raise money for a local soldier whose tools were stolen during his overseas deployment.
“We want him to come home and not focus on what happened to him but what has happened for him,” said Bill Lockhart, senior vice commander of American Legion Post 106 in Trenton, Ga.
Thieves stole tools and the pickup truck that his friend, Spc. Jeffery Farmer, had planned to use to start a tree service when he returned from his current deployment in Afghanistan, Mr. Lockhart said.
Spc. Farmer is deployed with the 1st Battalion, 121st Infantry Regiment, 48th Infantry Brigade in Ghazni, Afghanistan. It’s his third tour during the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns.
The specialist could not be reached for comment.