Carnival Cruise Line president making big leap for hurricane relief
Christine Duffy has accepted an adrenaline-fueled challenge to support first responders and military assisting with hurricane relief.
As communities across the Southeast recuperate from Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton takes aim on the Florida Gulf Coast, Carnival Cruise Line President Christine Duffy is literally jumping into action to strengthen the first responders and military who're on the bottom helping in impacted areas.
“Saying that Carnival is The u . s . a .’s Cruise Line and the favourite cruise line for active-duty militia and military veterans is one thing. Showing it is able to be miles any other story, and I’m always in a position to leap on the chance to prove it – and that’s what I’m going to be doing on Saturday, October 19. And I mean JUMP!”
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When Carnival Paradise departs from Port Tampa Bay on Oct. 19 for its first-ever Special Forces Legacy Initiatives (SFLI) cruise, Duffy will do something she’s never done ahead of – jump from an airplane.
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Christine Duffy will show her strengthen in a high-flying way
On a mission to lift $50,000 to strengthen our nation’s heroes, Duffy will tandem skydive with members of the Special Forces from a special airplane. She will leap from the “Tico Belle,” a World War II veteran C-forty seven aircraft flown sooner or later of the Normandy D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944.
Duffy will jump with Round Canopy Parachute Team, a non-profit that honors the history of Allied Airborne Forces, besides as members of the USSOCOM Para-Commandos, the U.S. Special Operations Command's premier aerial parachute demonstration team.
Funds raised through Duffy’s jump will benefit hurricane relief efforts during the Gary Sinise Foundation. Established in 2011 by award-winning actor and humanitarian Gary Sinise, the muse works to serve the nation by honoring our defenders, veterans, first responders, their families, and those in need through many of national and local programs.
The foundation’s hurricane relief efforts strengthen first responders and military on the bottom, who're working day and night to bring relief to communities devastated by Hurricane Helene.
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Carnival Paradise’s Special Forces cruise is a chief-of-its-kind sailing
Special Forces Legacy Initiatives chartered Carnival Paradise for the special 5-day Bahamas cruise. That is going to provide a possibility for special forces alumni, their families, Gold Star families, and friends to bolster the bonds within their community.
The first-of-its-kind cruise will bring together Green Berets who have served from the Korean War to present times to experience a reunion at sea. Sinise and the Lt. Dan Band will perform on embarkation day.
In the same method to special sailings like this one, Carnival Cruise Line salutes active and retired militia with reduced rates and military appreciation days with a militia appreciation gathering on every cruise. Every month, one militia member who attends thought of one of several important gatherings wins a free cruise.
The cruise line’s most up-to-date ships feature a Heroes Tribute Bar & Lounge and passengers on all Carnival ships can raise a pitcher in strengthen of heroes with an exclusive Heroes American Pale Ale. For every pint sold, Carnival donates $1 to Operation Homefront, a company that provides militia families with rent-free housing, helping wounded veterans and their members of the family back on their feet.
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A strategy to sign on for Carnival in supporting heroes and hurricane relief
Carnival Brand Ambassador John Heald shared an invite for Carnival Cruise Line fans to strengthen Duffy’s fundraising effort on his Facebook page with a non-public note:
“I am going to ask every person reading this to please lend a hand Veterans, First Responders, and for those in peril having faced Hurricane Helene and who may face the wrath of Hurricane Milton.If we, yes it’s as much as us, can raise this money for Veterans and First Responders then Christine will jump for joy...literally," he wrote.
Here is the link to the Gary Sinise Foundation donation page for all of us to donate. Thanks and have in mind……every little helps.”
As of the afternoon of Monday, Oct. 7, Carnival had already raised more $18,000 toward the cause.
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