Texas Airman makes wreaths from old military uniforms for veterans, their families
Staff Sgt. Nicole Pompei didn’t intend to start her own business this year, but after she turned her old Air Force uniform into a wreath, people immediately started asking her to make more. “It just kind of blew up,” Pompei, told Fox News. It all started in July when Pompei, a former Marine and current airman from San Antonio, Texas, had to switch her uniforms from airman battle uniforms, or ABUs, to the occupational camouflage pattern, or OCP. After the switch, Pompei wanted to do something special with her ABUs and someone in a veterans’ Facebook group recommended making a wreath. Pompei was visiting with her mom at the time, so they worked together to find a design that worked.