Alrighty, I will admit it... once upon a time, I did, indeed, have a Maxim subscription - see, I am not as nerdy as you once thought. At least not mostly. If it is any consolation, I read it primarily for the same reason my mother read Playboy - the articles and features. Yes, my mother read Playboy. For the articles. Ya got me. Moving on... I read it (Maxim, that is) for a while, simply because it had some really shiny toys featured in it, and no, I do not mean the things mounted to some of the people's chests. However, the Internet is a wonderful place, and I did not renew the subscription simply because I could find the similar features and articles elsewhere in the world... that and Better Half was not so keen on the concept. I told her it could be worse - I could be reading Playboy for the articles - but that did not work quite as well as I had originally planned.

So what does all of this personal information that you probably did not want to know about have to do with a damned thing? Well, RangerUp, the creators of some absolutely outstanding military-related shirt designs, are trying to get their model, Grace, into Maxim, to raise awareness for both RangerUp, and the Wounded Warrior Project. Thus is born Operation GRIM (Grace in Maxim). I mean, hell, if nothing else, she is certainly attractive enough to make it in Maxim. Of course, I regularly tell Better Half that, and she never listens to me... I mean, my glasses may be a bit on the thick side, but give me some credit.

What is the Wounded Warrior Project? As stolen shamelessly from the RangerUp webpage:

The Wounded Warrior Project is a nonprofit organization full of American patriots, many of them former servicemen and women, that is fighting to do something to help our wounded heroes. Their mission is “to raise the awareness and enlist the public's aid for the needs of severely injured service men and women, to help severely injured service members aid and assist each other, and to provide unique, direct programs and services to meet their needs.” In short, they are a motivated and lean organization that truly cares about our armed forces and is doing everything in its power to see that each and every wounded hero has the opportunity and tools to excel in every facet of their lives post-injury.

How can you not appreciate an organization like that?

So what can you do to help get Grace in Maxim (and thus publicity about the Wounded Warrior Project out to a probably-very-interested crowd)? Way down at the end of the Operation GRIM webpage, they give you a bulleted list of four things: Email Maxim (if you are not in the military, feel free to edit their form email appropriately - this is something civilians can easily help out with as well), send that page to a friend, buy a GRIM shirt, or donate straight to the Wounded Warrior Project. I figure that two out of four is not all that bad.

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