We understand that it\u2019s not always easy or affordable for our troops serving overseas to call friends and family at home, so starting today we\u2019re making it completely free for or all uniformed military personnel with valid United States Military (.mil) email addresses to call the United States, right from Gmail<\/a>. <\/p>\n There are two easy steps to enable free calling from Gmail (detailed instructions<\/a>): <\/p>\n (Cross-posted from the Gmail blog) <\/p>\n We understand that it\u2019s not always easy or affordable for our troops serving overseas to call friends and family at home, so starting today we\u2019re making it completely free for or all uniformed military personnel…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":434,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-blog-feeds"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thuis.us\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thuis.us\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thuis.us\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thuis.us\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/434"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thuis.us\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thuis.us\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thuis.us\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thuis.us\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thuis.us\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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<\/a><\/center> And don\u2019t forget that for friends and family at home in the U.S., calling troops abroad is as little as $.02\/minute<\/a>. Similar to free calling within the U.S., free calling to the US for service members will be available for at least the rest of 2011.\u00a0<\/p>\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7719008003036124316-8532542793411921304?l=googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com\")
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