Posted on 02/19/2005 12:40:42 AM PST by patriciaruth
Time for a new thread!
Our Merry Band of Patriots has seen a psy-ops unit at Bagram, Afghanistan, help educate voters in Afghanistan and come home successfully, while we supported them and special forces in the field by sending over 100 movies and many packages of snacks and toiletries and Hallowe'en candy. A Christmas tree and decorations (Daybreakcoming) and stockings (Ican'tbelieveit) and cards and over 400 candy canes were sent for their follow-on unit, and a box with movies and magazines and misc is just beginning to fill for their next care package. The movies and books we sent previously went into the Special Forces library there.
We've seen Beast Battery at Kirkuk, Iraq, through till their deployment home, sending them over 100 movies and dozens of books and a microwave and DVD/VCR player (from arjay) and many big boxes of snacks. Plus a huge wave of goodies was organized by McLynnan for Christmas in Kirkuk (2 prelit trees, ornaments, Santa suit, many stockings with stuffers, many cards, and a couple thousand candy canes to share out with all the forces there).
We've supported the 411th Engineers at Baghdad in 2004 with about 70 movies and several dozen books, a Playstation 2 and a Nintendo console with a couple dozen games (from asgardshill and ican'tbelieveit), a 4 foot Christmas tree and ornaments and boxes of snacks and many cards and 600 candy canes. In the next couple months we will be bidding them Godspeed as they return to their homebase in Hawaii.
We've sent over 50 movies, a DVD/VCR player (from arjay), and a dozen and a half books to an MI unit near Kirkuk, plus some Christmas decorations and stocking stuffers, and many cards and 156 candy canes. They have mostly left for home now and we just sent a package with more movies to their follow-on unit.
Also we have sent some packages to an Aviation unit at Balad, Iraq and to an Infantry Medics unit, and a small Christmas package each to another AVN unit and an MP unit.
Stryker Infantry company formerly at Fallujah and now at Mosul since November has been the major focus of our care packages these past months. All of Stryker at Mosul has taken fire, and our adopted company has suffered a KIA and some soldiers with severe injuries.
Early on we sent food items (mostly power bars and dried fruit and nuts) then Christmas stockings stuffed with goodies and many cards and 200 candy canes, and since Christmas have begun sending movies. They recently received a DVD/VCR player (from arjay) and with the movies just mailed today their collection will total about 75 movies and a dozen books.
And all this happened because our grassroots volunteer group began forming in the early summer of 2001 to send care packages to Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo, when the 101st Airborne and then the 10th Mountain were there.
The contents of packages just mailed will be listed in post below.
I retreived the first line of the ping list from an old list. You hadn't lost your mind, you hadn't been pinged. Somehow it got deleted in a transfer.
Okay, thanks! I'm going to keep an eye out for 4th of July decor to send to Baghdad or wherever.
Cute sign!! Thanks for dropping by!
You're very welcome. Hope you're having a nice day.
Interim report:
My living room is full of 4th of July decorations for the troops and a bunch of movies I bought from eBay, Amazon, etc.
Because I've been under the weather, Diamondhead and his neat wife are coming this Saturday to help me get them all packed up for five or six different units in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Anyone who wants to see pictures of the decorations can locate me under eBay, as patriciaruth, and hit on the items that I bought during May.
I got 5 copies of the recent movie National Treasure because it is about the Declaration of Independence and the troops keep asking for "recent movies" without giving me any titles.
Also got several copies of White Chicks, Spanglish, XXX, Chronicles of Reddick, The Day After Tomorrow, one of Alien versus Predator (AVP), and a bunch of Western movies and paperback books for the soldiers at Kirkuk.
Next is getting more popcorn (but have a couple cases already).
I'll post next after this is mailed out. Anyone who wants to help with postage, contact me by FReepmail.
Cheers!
Just watched The National Treasure tonight and the troops will love it. An action movie with the Declaration of Independence involved in the adventure and I found myself realizing more than ever how precious that document is.
A postage check will be in the mail in the next couple days. Hope you are feeling better and bless Diamondhead and wife for the help.
That is a very enjoyable movie - I think they'll love it. Good choice!
Email from Bagram, Afghanistan! Are there a few volunteers in our group who could get together a package of personal care products for the unit there and mail it off to them in the next 7-10 days?
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EMAIL:
Dear Patty,
Hello from Afghanistan.
Sorry about not writing you guys sooner but it's been busy here. Sorry to hear about your father. We've been lucky over here. Nothing serious happining over here.
... I think that both coffee and lemanade would be great. Also as far as other things that we could use, lots of hygiene items. The girls are requesting dove shampoo and conditioner. And we were thinking beyond that just soap, shampoo, deoderent, and shave gel and razors for all the guys. They are the ones who need the stuff the most since alot of them are at places were they can't just buy the stuff themselves.
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Again thanks for everything. We really apprecitate all the support you and all your friends provide.
Mark
I can get a package together and sent. Let me know where. I will include at least one of each item listed.
Patty, I'll put a package together. Just let me know the details.
Thanks!
Send me the address and I'll get the stuff today.
Y'all have FReepmail.
If anyone else is interested in getting together a box of personal care items for our troops at Bagram and the smaller fire bases, please let me know and I'll supply details on how to mail it to them.
Our Girl Scout Service unit sent a bunch of GS cookies to the troops. I can't remember to which unit they were sent. When the troops had their booth sales, they always had a notice that folks could buy a box to send to the troops. I think they had over 150 boxes that were sent this year!
BUMP
That is wonderful, Suzi!
OK, Patty. Here's what I got.
10 - 5 packs Personna Twin Blade Plus disposable razors
10 - 2-5 oz. gillette Gel shaving cream
1 - 6 pack of Dove White soap
1 - 6 pack of Dove Pink soap
6 - 10 oz. Dove shampoo
6 - 10 oz. Dove conditioner
10 - Suave 2.6 oz. stick deodorant
10 - Mennen Speed Stick deodorant
Today is the last day of school for my son, so if I don't get it out today, I will in the morning.
They'll be so thrilled to get these personal care goodies you're sending to Bagram. Coop is also making up a box. You knew about iceskater and mathluv doing it, too.
You all are the best!!
Your orders for the Clint Eastwood and Adam Sandler movies may arrive here next week and still make it by the Fourth of July.
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