Fort Carson and Salvation Army are teaming up to help people in need

Salvation Army is teaming up with Fort Carson Culinary Specialist volunteers for the 29th year to prepare holiday meals for people in need.

We are less than a week away from Thanksgiving and soldiers at Fort Carson do not want anyone going hungry.

SSgt. Mark Scozzafava said, “Fort Carson working with the community enable Fort Carson to give back to those who need who have also given us so much.”

Soldiers will be working around the clock to make sure that people in need have a home cooked meal on Thanksgiving as more than 350 turkeys were delivered today.

“Seventy-two hours, three straight days,” said Scozzafava.

Local organizations donated the food and when it’s all said and done soldiers here at Fort Carson will have prepared more than 3,500 servings of food.

Melany Jackson with Salvation Army says it’s an incredible thing to see soldiers at Fort Carson donating their time.

“To have the soldiers getting involved helping the people in this community because sometimes I think they get a bad wrap that they are really not so much a part of the community, but this is a concerted effort to help people here in the springs,” said Jackson.

There will be four different serving sites on Thanksgiving: Manitou Springs, Fountain, Woodland Park and right here in Colorado Springs.

Salvation Army will also have 60 volunteer drivers going around picking people up and delivering food.