GLOCK, Inc. donates $100K for fifth consecutive year to Special Operations Warrior Foundation

Online, June 22, 2010 (Newswire.com) - TAMPA, FL -- GLOCK, Inc. made a $100,000 donation to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation (SOWF) during the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference (SOFIC) on June 15.

During the past five years, GLOCK has donated $500,000 to SOWF, a top-rated nonprofit organization providing college educations to the surviving children of Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps special operations personnel killed in combat or training.

Accepting the donation on behalf of SOWF was Col. John T. Carney Jr., the founding father of Air Force Special Tactics and current President of SOWF, and Taniya Wright. Taniya's father, Sgt. James Wright, died in a training accident in 1987 while serving as a member of the U.S. Army's Special Forces. Taniya was 4 years old and her younger sister, Taryn, 2, when they lost their father.

Through donations such as GLOCK's, SOWF was able to provide the sisters with full college educations their father would have wanted for them. Taniya graduated from the University of South Florida in 2006 with a degree in Mass Communications and now works as an associate producer at the NBC affiliate in Tampa. Taryn graduated in 2008 with a degree in Film from the Savannah College of Art & Design. She is currently working in Los Angeles in the film industry.

The SOWF currently has 135 students enrolled in colleges and universities across the country and another 600 students who have yet to reach college age.

GLOCK, Inc. donates more than $500,000 each year to causes that benefit those who put themselves in harm's way to defend the freedom that Americans enjoy.

Since 1980, the SOWF has been supporting Special Operations Forces through its two primary programs: college educations for the surviving children of fallen special operations personnel; and immediate financial assistance to severely wounded special operations troops. For more information please visit online at www.specialops.org