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 got jtill's popcorn today, so I can be ready to mail her donated 4 boxes worth this coming Monday, too.
BUT we will wait till everyone is on deck before shooting the starting gun for the waves to begin.
Aye, Aye, Captain! :-) standing by......
I've adopted the unofficial title of ramrod for this cattle drive.
LOL!
That's cool!
I've tried a couple times to get an answer from the CSM in charge of the rec room for the Engineers at Baghdad about what specific Playstation2 games they'd like, and never got any specific answer. Like me, he knows next to nothing about action computer games.
Have you been waiting for my attempts at contact or did you go ahead and use the judgment of your kids?
Really neither... truthfully, with our finances I have to do this at the right time just after a paycheck or there never seems to be enough extra. I will try to go this weekend and see what we can find.
You might be able to get something used at Amazon Market Place or eBay for less money than new.
But it might be a better experience for your kids to remember if they go out with you and pick something out and you all mail it directly to the soldiers in Iraq.
You don't have to go overboard. One game will mean a lot to the soldiers over there, especially if you include notes written by your kids.
I agree. I do want to get them involved, so that they remember helping the troops in this war when they were young! Thanks for your patience with me!
Operation Popcorn is a go!
West Coast, Arizona to mail on Monday, August 29
Texas, Mississippi River, Midwest states to mail Tuesday, August 30
Eastern U.S. to mail Wednesday, August 31
I will send everyone a FReepmail with all the particulars later this evening, just to be sure no one has missed any details.
Roll 'em out!
Your ramrod,
Patty
Thank you to MJY1288 and his friends for the contributions that made this box possible.
Mailed August 27, 2005, to Battery company at Kirkuk
Insured for $167, postage $10.90
2 decorated thank you letters from Ros42, 1 letter from etabeta, 5 cards (from angelsonmyside, Lion Den Dan, JustaCowgirl, Theresawithanh, iceskater)
3 Books:
The Connection (Stephen Hayes)
Reagan’s War (Peter Schweitzer)
1776 (David McCullough)
9 DVD movies:
DC 9/11- Time of Crisis (Timothy Bottoms)
9/11 Filmmakers’ Commemorative Edition
Two Mules for Sister Sara (Clint Eastwood, Shirley McLaine)
Anger Management (Adam Sandler, Jack Nicholson)
Charlie’s Angels (Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu, Drew Barrymore)
The Alamo (Dennis Quaid)
The Alamo (John Wayne)
Hitch (Will Smith)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda)
DVD recordings made by MJY1288:
Company of Heroes
Rush Limbaugh July, 2005
Rush Limbaugh June, 2005
3 cans 4 oz Gold Bond body powder
Thank you to MJY1288 and his friends for the contributions that made this box possible.
Mailed August 27, 2005, to Battery company at Kirkuk
Insured for $167, postage $10.90
2 decorated thank you letters from Ros42, 1 letter from etabeta, 5 cards (from angelsonmyside, Lion Den Dan, JustaCowgirl, Theresawithanh, iceskater)
3 Books:
The Connection (Stephen Hayes)
Reagan’s War (Peter Schweitzer)
1776 (David McCullough)
9 DVD movies:
DC 9/11- Time of Crisis (Timothy Bottoms)
9/11 Filmmakers’ Commemorative Edition
Two Mules for Sister Sara (Clint Eastwood, Shirley McLaine)
Anger Management (Adam Sandler, Jack Nicholson)
Charlie’s Angels (Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu, Drew Barrymore)
The Alamo (Dennis Quaid)
The Alamo (John Wayne)
Hitch (Will Smith)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda)
DVD recordings made by MJY1288:
Company of Heroes
Rush Limbaugh July, 2005
Rush Limbaugh June, 2005
3 cans 4 oz Gold Bond body powder
Bought a whole bunch of popcorn today, and already have my customs forms! [saluting smartly] :-)
Move 'em out! Get 'em out! Drive 'em in! RAWHIDE!!
Box #1 is ActII Butter Flavored (28-3.5 oz bags)
Box #2 is ActII Butter Lover's (28-3.5 oz bags)
They will be in the mail Monday! :~)
Woo-Hoo!
We got another form letter back from Landstuhl in Germany thanking us for the care package for the wounded that we sent this month.
We got your shoebox of goodies for the troops. THANKS!
We mailed your popcorn out to the Engineers in Baghdad today, and were able to fit in a few items from us and from anglesonmyside and CAluvdubya.
Box 1
28 bags Act II Kettle Corn microwave popcorn
Unforgiven ( Clint Eastwood)
Stand and Deliver (Edward James Olmos, Lou Diamond Phillips)
In Harm’s Way (John Wayne, Patricia Neal)B&W
9 large packs Carefree sugarless spearmint gum
box 2
28 bags Act II Butter Lovers microwave popcorn
Dick Tracy (Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome/Dick Tracy Dilemma)
The James Dean Story/Hometown Story with cameo of Marilyn Monroe
9 large packs of Carefree sugarless spearmint gum
box 3
28 bags Act II Kettle Corn microwave popcorn
Rio Grande (John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (John Wayne)
9 large packs of Carefree sugarless spearmint gum
box 4
28 bags Act II Kettle Corn microwave popcorn
To the Far Blue Mountains (Louis L’Amour)
McLintock! (John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara)
9 large packs of Carefree sugarless spearmint gum
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