When it comes to United States troops stationed overseas, nothing, it seems, is missed as much as that much-anticipated delicacy, that claim of every American's birthright, the anathema of every failed diet, Girl Scout cookies.

Phil Randazzo, founder of Nevada Benefits Foundation, a nonprofit organization created to support U.S. troops and their families, helped see to it that the troops were not disappointed. Working with the Girl Scouts Frontier Council and relying on community support, the troops were sent the irresistible cookies.