Readiness

Lt. Gen. Rex C. McMillian, commander of Marine Forces Reserve and Marine Forces North, speaks with children as they wait to receive gifts during the annual Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club’s Toys for Tots distribution at New Orleans City Hall, Dec. 17, 2016. Nearly 2,000 families lined up to receive toys and gifts. Toys for Tots, an annual Marine Corps Reserve Program, aims at collecting new, unwrapped Christmas gifts for less fortunate children in the community in which the campaign is conducted. Since its inception in 1947, Toys for Tots has distributed 512 million toys to 237 million children.