We Did It. The Drones for Ukraine Have Shipped.

Our dronation effort to send a reconnaissance drone to Ukraine is complete. In the end a team of sixty people came together and we shipped not one, but two drones with a third on the way.

It's official. They're out the door.

I have checked my UPS tracking numbers to make sure both drones had been received at the shipping center in New Jersey for UNITED24. From here, they are in other hands and will make their way to the front lines.

When I started this fundraiser in October, the target was to buy a single state-of-the-art reconnaissance drone exactly to the desired specifications posted on UNITED24. And that's the one that I picked. Thermal camera. Can go up miles. 30 minute flight time. If you are interested in this sort of thing, the specs are here.

I know nothing about drones, but I knew this is what Ukraine was asking for. $7,600 at the time. Putting this out there with a target of $7,600, I had a wave of insecurity around getting this done. There's nothing like a public stand, though, to keep one's focus sharp.

I worried too much.

Almost sixty people came together to purchase these. The Friday before Christmas a wave of contributions came in and we hit the target n…