DeCA launches baby care program

FORT LEE, Va. The Defense Commissary Agency is launching a new initiative called the Li'l Heroes Baby Program, effective July 6.

The Li'l Heroes Baby Program will be featured on a special section of http://www.commissaries.com that will offer articles from the DeCA dietitian, Lt. Col. Karen Hawkins, and the agency's home economist, Kay Blakley, as well as links to other government sources providing tips and advice to new parents.

The highlight of this new program will be DeCA's newest e-newsletter: the Li'l Heroes Benefit Bulletin. In addition to linking commissary customers to the articles mentioned above, this monthly e-newsletter will provide access to military-exclusive vendor Web pages offering special savings for readers. This information will help you learn how to make the commissary that much more worth the trip for the things your little ones need. Vendors will also be offering special thank-you gifts to subscribers.

"Customers have told us that the commissary is their most important nonpay benefit, so we want to maintain that by supporting the whole military family as much as possible," DeCA director and CEO Philip Sakowitz Jr. said. "We value the sacrifices these families have made for our country, and hope that the support this program will provide will make the commissary even more worth the trip for them."