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The Bizarre, Unsatisfying Things Soldiers Receive in 'Care Packages'
TheAtlantic.com ^
| Sept. 4th 2010
| Wesley Morgan
Posted on 09/10/2010 4:01:08 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg
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Wow, Romance novels and Hello Kitty T-shirts for our troops in Harm's way?
Sometimes I wonder if America is doomed because it is full of Americans who have no clue about God and Country...
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posted on
09/10/2010 4:01:09 AM PDT
by
Mad Dawgg
To: Mad Dawgg
When my son was in Iraq, the care packages we sent were filled with Cliff bars, Tim Horton’s coffee (his favorite), and DVDs. And some NY Yankees paraphernalia during baseball season. He liked them!
To: Mad Dawgg
I’m surprised they don’t have a field manual on how to survive in open water, or learn Japanese in 3 hours....;-)
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posted on
09/10/2010 4:12:30 AM PDT
by
Dem Guard
To: Mad Dawgg
I long ago determined the jokes about the people at the DMV line or other such agencies were not jokes.
Quinn and Rose occasionally air a bit they call, "They Walk Among Us".
There really is an almost overpowering number of a compilation of innocently stupid and evil people that actually have power and authority to do such things as .. show Barbarella in prison.
That's true and don't ask how I know ... suffice it to be .. that was in 1969 ...
They've been at it a long time.
That's why we sometimes bang our heads against the wall in disbelief.
They walk among us.
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posted on
09/10/2010 4:13:39 AM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: RochesterFan
A friend was in Iraq and I sent similiar stuff, plus fly paper for the tents (he said the flies were really bad there) and multiple copies of South Parks “Team America”. The movie became a cult favorite in his camp LOL.
When this same friend was in Bosnia I sent Jim Beam in the smaller plastic bottles, didn’t realize at the time that it was a) illegal to send hooch through the mail and b) that he was on a dry base LOL. He wanted it, so I sent it!
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posted on
09/10/2010 4:16:21 AM PDT
by
LizardQueen
(The world is not out to get you, except in the sense that the world is out to get everyone.)
To: knarf
You worked at a prison movie theater in 69???
HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA
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posted on
09/10/2010 4:19:28 AM PDT
by
RaceBannon
(RON PAUL: THE PARTY OF TRUTHERS, TRAITORS AND UFO CHASERS!!!)
To: knarf
“They walk among us.”
And they vote & reproduce. (Face palm)
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posted on
09/10/2010 4:22:56 AM PDT
by
rickb308
(I love watching libruls heads explode as they see their karma run over their dogma.)
To: Mad Dawgg
Handi-wipes, work gloves, case of beef jerky, small binoculars, starburst candy, socks, orthotics (different sizes), sports illustrated swimsuit DVD , Swiss Miss chocolate mix, 8 macanudo cigars hidden in coffee packages, matches, home brew supplies labelled as cookie mix, and headlights with a box of batteries.
a couple of letters from the kids in my childrens classes also. Especially around Christmas
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posted on
09/10/2010 4:24:35 AM PDT
by
Dick Vomer
(Our President-A modest man, who has much to be modest about.)
To: Mad Dawgg
>>> Romance novels and Hello Kitty T-shirts
And WHAT is wrong with Hello Kitty t-shirts? Hello Kitty and soldiers are a good fit. Kittys don't take anything off of anybody.
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posted on
09/10/2010 4:29:52 AM PDT
by
tlb
To: Mad Dawgg
"Soldiers say that no plan survives its first contact with the enemy..."Hell, we used to say that no plan survives contact with reality.
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posted on
09/10/2010 4:31:52 AM PDT
by
ronnyquest
(There's a communist living in the White House! Now, what are you going to do about it?)
To: Mad Dawgg
His current Afghanistan deployment is the first of SPC Niteowl77 Jr's "field trips" wherein I have had to use the new customs form, which is less friendly than the previous version. Why there is not a separate, far less turgid form for gifts to service members with APO/FPO addresses remains a mystery to me. Nonetheless, we persevere and send - for example - the "2011 Gun Digest" in lieu of bodice-ripping romances.
(Thanks to FR, this conjures up the image of a ludicrously herculean Obama ravishing an apparently "tingly" Chris Matthews.)
I am tempted to send him some "Hello Kitty" stickers just to see where he'd end up applying them, but past experience tells me that might be asking for trouble.
Mr. niteowl77
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posted on
09/10/2010 4:38:35 AM PDT
by
niteowl77
(I don't mind them stewing in their own juices, but I do object to them stewing me in their juices.)
To: Mad Dawgg
Why do these types of threads always wind up with some people telling the rest of us how smart they are and how they do things?
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posted on
09/10/2010 4:43:30 AM PDT
by
1raider1
To: RochesterFan
"When my son was in Iraq, the care packages we sent were filled with Cliff bars, Tim Hortons coffee (his favorite), and DVDs. And some NY Yankees paraphernalia during baseball season. He liked them!" When I still had my Hobby store I sent Magic The Gathering Decks (A two player or more card game that is popular among college age kids and up) and a Popular War game called Warhammer to some of the guys that lived in my area and got stationed over in the sand (as they called it).
The first package went out in September By the time Christmas rolled around I had everybody in their gaming click several Decks of Cards and at least a full army of Warhammer each.
People from around the area got wind of the gaming crew and come in droves to donate money to buy those guys stuff. Then we started sending DVDs and CDs and all kinds of food they requested. My store became the collecting point and we would box it all up and then walk to the post office sometimes it took ten or more people top get all the packages to the post office during the Holidays.
Then all of the sudden we couldn't get packages through we tried for about three months straight. (We used priority mail and the box would come back marked undeliverable no reason given) It fell apart then but we had a good run of nearly three years.
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posted on
09/10/2010 4:46:28 AM PDT
by
Mad Dawgg
(If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the next one...)
To: Mad Dawgg
A missionary friend told me one time that people would send USED tea bags because everyone knows you can use a tea bag more than once....
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posted on
09/10/2010 4:52:23 AM PDT
by
Calm_Cool_and_Elected
("Stupidity is always astonishing, no matter how many times you may deal with it." - Jean Cocteau)
To: Calm_Cool_and_Elected
Nigerian law prohibits the importation of “used tea bags”
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posted on
09/10/2010 4:55:03 AM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Greetings Jacques. The revolution is coming)
To: bert
This guy worked on Indian reservations in the SW US.
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posted on
09/10/2010 4:57:13 AM PDT
by
Calm_Cool_and_Elected
("Stupidity is always astonishing, no matter how many times you may deal with it." - Jean Cocteau)
To: Mad Dawgg
OK...anyone want to organize a “Berlin air lift” of Skoal and Jim Beam?
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posted on
09/10/2010 4:58:30 AM PDT
by
Renfield
(Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
To: Mad Dawgg
You can’t send a Bible but you can send DEVIL-WORSHIPPING CARDS!!! /sarcasm
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posted on
09/10/2010 5:01:19 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: 1raider1
Why do these types of threads always wind up with some people telling the rest of us how smart they are and how they do things?Let's just cut to the chase. I'm the smartest and coolest person here and the things that I do are the best and most interesting things that anyone could possibly do. Now that we all agree on that, we can have some profitable conversation.
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posted on
09/10/2010 5:04:35 AM PDT
by
Drawsing
(The fool shows his annoyance at once. The prudent man overlooks an insult. (Proverbs 12:16))
To: Mad Dawgg
Well my first care packages contained cell phone jammers, wet wipes, candy, loads of batteries, smokes and lip balm. Most were sent randomly. One was received by a Marine Gunny that I have become close friends with. He believes that the cell phone jammer saved his Marines from IED’s on several occasions and then the dumba$$ brass made them stop using them and he lost four guys in one attack.
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posted on
09/10/2010 5:04:57 AM PDT
by
mad_as_he$$
(Playing by the rules only works if both sides do it!)
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