6-9 p.m.
USS Midway Museum
910 N. Harbor Drive, downtown San Diego
Cost: $5
Operation Thin Mint℠
Operation Thin Mint℠ (OTM) is a local Girl Scout service project that originated in San Diego in 2002. With support from the community, Girl Scouts and their cookie customers send packages of America's favorite cookies and countless notes of support to veterans and deployed troops serving around the world in places like Afghanistan, Iraq, Africa, Japan, Korea, and the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean.
Celebrating More than 20 Years and 4.2+ Million Packages of Operation Thin Mint℠
Save the date: OTM Sendoff and Family Festival Returns on Saturday, May 17, 2025!
During the 2024 cookie program, Girl Scouts in San Diego and Imperial counties marketed more than 2.3 million packages of cookies and secured 152,500 packages of donated cookies for OTM, a service project that originated in San Diego in 2002 that shares Girl Scout Cookies with U.S. military personnel.
Last year, we celebrated those successes with the Operation Thin Mint℠ Sendoff and Family Festival aboard the USS Midway Museum. The event welcomed more than 1,500 guests and commemorated 23 years and more than 4.2 million packages of Operation Thin Mint SM (OTM). Attendees enjoyed bustling community partner stations, the GSSD pop-up shop, picnics on the USS Midway’s flight deck, and an epic dance party to end the night.
GSSD CEO, Carol Dedrich, and Sky Williams, Co-Host of The Show on Rock 105.3 and event emcee, led a patriotic pep rally to honor top Girl Scout cookie entrepreneurs: Elite Entrepreneurs (Girl Scouts who reached 2,024+ packages of cookies) and Top 10 OTM Entrepreneurs.
The program featured remarks from CDR Robin Dirickson, Executive Officer for Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron Fourteen on Coronado, who highlighted the special impact of the OTM program for military troops.
Check out photos from last year’s event.
Hope to see you aboard the USS Midway this year!
Registration Information 
Event Logistics
2025 Sendoff Partners
4-Star Partners
Community Sponsors
Inquiries:
Sponsorships: Betsy Paige, 619-610-0801
OTM Sponsor Sheet
Registration questions: customercare@sdgirlscouts.org
Help us send 200,000 letters
Print blank OTM notecards, decorate, and return to any Girl Scouts San Diego office or resource center so we can send "notes to show we care" to deployed troops and veterans with shipments of OTM cookies. We collect notes year round.
"Grown men do cry! The Operation Thin Mint cookies brought back memories of home. With all our hearts, thank you for thinking of us."— Deanna Moore, Supply Officer, USNS PATHFINDER (T-AGS-60)
"Thank you for the cookies. It just feels like a little piece of home was delivered to us!"— LS1(SW/AW) Jennifer Workman, USN, USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74)
"Two things Marines overseas look forward to are letters from family and Girl Scout cookies. So believe me when I say we are thankful for your support and thoughtfulness."— SGT J.T. Drake, USMC; U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia
"We have just received a shipment of Girl Scout cookies out here in Djibouti (Horn of Africa). We are very thankful!"— PO3 Tiffany Woodruff, USN; U.S. Central Command
"The Girl Scout Cookies were such a morale booster! Thank you for keeping our soldiers in your thoughts."— First Sergeant Kerry Wood, USA; Camp Humphreys, Korea
