Press Release
☷Presidio of Monterey Touch A Truck event honors military children
U.S. Army ( By Press Release office)
Apr 29,2022
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A child smiles for a photo while sitting in the wheel of a large bulldozer during the Touch - A - Truck event at the General Stilwell Community Center , Ord Military Community , Calif . , April 23 . Children explore a Presidio of Monterey fire truck during the Touch - A - Truck event at the General Stilwell Community Center , Ord Military Community , Calif . , April 23 . A child meets Cletus the first responder therapy dog during the Touch - A - Truck event at the General Stilwell Community Center , Ord Military Community , Calif . , April 23 . A child poses for a photo on a Presidio of Monterey fire truck during the Touch - A - Truck event at the General Stilwell Community Center , Ord Military Community , Calif . , April 23 . Children explore an ambulance during the Touch - A - Truck event at the General Stilwell Community Center , Ord Military Community , Calif . , April 23 . A child explores a Presidio of Monterey fire truck during the Touch - A - Truck event at the General Stilwell Community Center , Ord Military Community , Calif . , April 23 . Families view a cement truck during the Touch - A - Truck event at the General Stilwell Community Center , Ord Military Community , Calif . , April 23 . PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY , Calif . ( April 28 , 2022 ) – The Presidio of Monterey’s Touch - A - Truck event in honor of the Month of the Military Child featured a variety of trucks and other vehicles for children to see , touch and explore . PoM Child and Youth Services organized the event , which took place April 23 at the General Stilwell Community Center at Ord Military Community . Each April , members of the military community and beyond celebrate the Month of the Military Child to recognize the resiliency , selflessness and sacrifice of military children as they serve our country as part of a military family . Families with young children thronged the event , which featured a PoM fire truck , a PoM police cruiser , a cement truck , a dump truck , a U . S . Postal Service delivery truck and several more . LaToya Maben , Child and Youth Services outreach director and an organizer of the event , said this was the installation’s first Touch - A - Truck event , but organizers hope to make it an annual tradition . The event’s kickoff included Nick Morgan , 14 , the Porter Youth Center’s Youth of the Year , who spoke about how the youth center has inspired him and other military children . “This program represents the best of the military children , ” Nick said . “It brings out the best in us , as I’ve seen all the leadership all my fellow military youths have provided , how they have inspired the young children , how they continue to go forth and be strong . ” Nick said the military children who attend the center might not always have a lot of time together due to frequent military moves , but the center helps them form strong relationships and good memories . In addition , Chaplain ( Maj . ) Ben Ellington , U . S . Army Garrison PoM chaplain , delivered the event’s invocation , praying for military children and spouses , who often pay the heaviest price when service members go to war . “It’s the military spouse and the military child that is often the unsung and the forgotten heroes of our service to our country , ” Ellington said . Those who attended said they had a lot of fun . Steve McIntyre , his wife Kim Hall and their daughter Harper , 3 , were among the attendees , and McIntyre said he and his wife knew they had to take Harper when they saw the flier because she loves trucks of all kinds . “It’s great , ” McIntyre said of the event . “We love it―just the fact that we can get up and see the trucks and she can touch the trucks and she can sit in the fire truck . ”
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