Photo:  White House photo by Joyce Boghosian

President Bush presents the President's Volunteer Service Award to Air Force spouse Bob Davison from Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi, before the White House celebration of Military Spouse Day on Tuesday, May 6, 2008. Davison's wife, Major Lisa Davison, has served in the Air Force since 1996. At his wife’s current duty station, Davison started the combined Mississippi and Alabama Chapter of Operation Homefront, through which he has raised more than $350,000 in donations, including more than one million phone card minutes for distribution to service members. Davison secured funding and donations to provide catered meals and 2,000 backpacks filled with toiletries, blankets, and clothes to injured service members and their families who were transitioning through the base or onto frontline hospitals. Davison also volunteers with R.I.D.E.S – Ready to Improve Development, Esteem, Strength, and Spirit, which provides therapeutic horseback riding for special-needs children. While at various other duty stations, Davison has also helped to collect 1,000 toys and raised $10,000 to support Fisher House and established an Airmen’s Food Pantry to provide short-term food aid to military families facing financial difficulties.

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