Evacuation of over 1500 sailors and U.S. troops with families from Mideast base in #Bahrain sends #Virginia community groups scrambling to help

“…personnel say that the sailors arrived with very little.

A call went out to community groups, asking for basic supplies like hygiene products.”

"The base was asking for donations of toiletries for the sailors coming back, because they were coming back with nothing,"

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/03/nx-s1-5770491/evacuation-bahrain-norfolk-troops