What are phone cards for the military and how do they work?
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 at
4:56 am
i’m speaking at my church so we can raise money for the military to buy phone cards can someone please explain them to me?
Chosen Answer:
Basically buying them minutes to use to call back home. They have to pay if they want to call home from wherever they may be deployed to so getting them a card with minutes is very helpful to them.
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Basically buying them minutes to use to call back home. They have to pay if they want to call home from wherever they may be deployed to so getting them a card with minutes is very helpful to them.
When a soldier goes to training he is stripped of his phone, so the only he/she is able to communicate back home is through letters and phone booths. When I was at basic training we had to buy cards that had prepaid minutes on them, and used these cards to call home on phone booths that were located all over the post. I believe soldiers use these same cards to call home from over seas as well. So its pretty much a card that has a code on the back that you enter when you call and it subtracts the minutes off of the card. AT&T, Verizon and a whole bunch of other telephone companies make these and they can range anywhere from $10 to $120 and higher, depending on how many minutes you want. If you’re using the card to call within the U.S. then the cards are pretty cheap and you get a lot of minutes but if you’re calling out of the country then the cards are quiet expensive.