This was not the first time the two SPRINT managers had gone out of their way to support New Jersey’s citizen-soldiers.  In recent years they made similar donations of calling cards for troops participating in the NATO Peacekeeping operations in Bosnia and Kosovo.   As an added bonus, SPRINT also provided calling cards for use by the family members left back home as well. SPRINT has been a regular sponsor of various National Guard Association activities which benefit their scholarship programs and in September of 2000, SPRINT was a major corporate sponsor of the 122nd Annual Conference of the National Guard Association of the United States which brought more than 6,000 Guard Association members to Atlantic City.

Both Robinson and Lewis are actively involved with the New Jersey Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Committee, an organization which operates under the aegis of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs and is dedicated to fostering a close working relationship between New Jersey’s employer / business community and the 20,000 National Guardmembers and Reservists serving in units throughout the state.