WASHINGTON - Dozens of helping hands spent hours assembling care packages for people they didn't even know.

The USO-sponsored Package Stuffing Party for Women attracted about 100 volunteers to the Rayburn House Office Building Wednesday. They filled care packages with mascara, razors, lipstick and hair bands for female soldiers serving overseas.

U.S. Marine Corps Major Justin Constantine was wounded in 2006 while serving in Iraq (web | news) . He knows how much these gifts from back home make a difference to those overseas.

"Getting something like this is going to help make their day a little easier," Maj. Constantine said. "It's fantastic and that's what this is all about. A lot of the women don't get female specific items in the care packages, so this is huge for them."

This is the first time the USO has tailor made its care packages for women in the military.

Volunteer Nancy Fiscus served in the Navy. Her husband is on his second tour of duty in Iraq.

"When we do the other care packages they don't specifically go to a woman," Fiscus said. "There's not the smelly stuff, there's not the special stuff that we need as a woman."

Jill Biden, the wife of the Vice President Joe Biden, volunteered her time to pack care packages. Her stepson Beau served in Iraq.

"As a military mom I have seen first hand how acts of kindness and service like today's effort can help improve the life of a serviceman," Jill Biden said.

The volunteers assembled 2,000 care packages, which should begin arriving overseas in about three weeks.

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