Heroes: Group ‘LEEPS’ to Help Afghan Police

Steve Newton started the Law Enforcement Equipment Program as a way to provide used gear for American armed forces units to use in training or equipping friendly foreign police forces. The program accepts donations of used equipment from U.S. law enforcement departments and helps get it overseas.

“We simply act as a go-between for the American law enforcement community and the military,” Newton said of the organization, more commonly known as “LEEP.”

[i.e., yet another example of individual US soldiers taking the initiative to help above and beyond their already humbling sacrifices]

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