Pastor and Commander

Fr. Sean O'Brien, a friend and supporter of T-shirts for Troops since its humble beginnings, was recently promoted to the rank of Commander. Fr. Sean, currently the pastor at Christ Our Light in Pulaski, New York has been a friend of the project and of ours!

Fr. Sean returned from his second tour in September 2007. He had previously served in Iraq where he traveled from ship to ship in the Fifth Fleet based Bahrain providing spiritual support for servicemen and women stationed there in 2002 and 2003. In March 2007 he was summoned to duty once again, this time to Afghanistan. Fr. Sean served at Bagram Air Force based in Afghanistan. He returned home in September 2007.

You can scroll down the blog to see some pictures of Fr. Sean and the US firefighters currently serving in Afghanistan.

Fr. Sean distributed hundreds of T-shirts for us during his deployment. He delivered shirts to the troops in remote out posts of Afghanistan to the soldiers who really could use the support.

Congratulations and best wishes to Fr.Sean on his promotion.