The recruiters are busy trying to recruit new troops so they have little free time to help? The best place do donate rods or equipment to would be the MWR (Morale Welfare and Recreation) and every base I know of has one? These are the places that soldiers can go to and borrow equipment, etc. If you need the contact info for any of these places I can look it up? FT. Leonard Wood, MO is the one I am most familiar with.
Allen