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We are currently waiting for confirmation of the name of the new captain of our adopted Stryker company at Mosul and for information on whether the 24 headlamps we ordered (and paid for) from Petzl America arrived.

Airborne will be seeing his nephew on 2 weeks leave from Mosul this weekend and help us get this all confirmed.

If it is good to go, then I have a local donor who is offering to foot the bill for another 24 headlamps if they still want more.

The REALLY GREAT NEWS is that with my "new" (used) laptop and updated Windows program (which my brother got for me), Paypal finally accepted my credit card number, etc. and is in process of verifying me.

With any luck, I'll be able to accept Paypal contributions by next week, AND finally be able to access the contribution to my Paypal account that Tampa Caver made last summer....

(POSTED on 3-31 PDT so this is not an April Fool Joke...!!)

More info on care packages that are going out will be posted in the near future.

I've had a chance to get a little rest and rescue my old cat from a week boarding at the vet's, and will be transferring my files to this laptop (belonged to an architectural firm who got new ones and sold the "old" ones for $75 a piece).

Hope everyone is doing okay.

Please post any news about care packages you've sent off or news you've had from our adopted companies during this past month.

Cheers!
Patty

All those tubes of Crystal Lite lemonade you got with me in Garland are either on their way to Iraq, or will be sent soon.

They were split up, and some are going to Mosul, some to Kirkuk, and some to Baghdad.

Have you got your movies and other goodies packed yet?

I noticed a fair number of soldiers at DFW as I was waiting to fly home last Friday, so I got a dozen big Snickers crunchers and passed them out to the soldiers going by...hanging onto a wheelchair as I was pretty rocky at the time.

Thanks for the idea!!

Airborne's nephew says he has seen some of the headlamps with the flip up red filter, so I have to assume the 24 we ordered have arrived in Mosul.

A local optometrist here is going to order 12 more in the next couple days with our contact at Petzl America donating a matching 12 for another 24 headlamps (LED 4, covered push button, attached red filter) to be sent to our adopted Stryker company at Mosul.

We have confirmation on the name of the new captain of our company, and so care packages big time will be flowing again to them. A shipment of many movies will be going out from Texas this week, and I'll list them here as soon as they go.

MY ACCOUNT AT PAYPAL IS NOW VERIFIED! (Thanks to my new Windows program on my new used laptop).

I'll be ordering tomorrow shipment of some headlamps to specific soldiers with specific APO's.

If anyone wants to order a headlamp (please specify whether camouflage color or black color) for a soldier, let me know. Price is 21.50, and a small donation to cover mailing is appreciated but not necessary.

I accept checks, money orders, cash, Walmart shopping cards, Amazon gift certificates, Target gift cards, and Paypal.
If you pay by Paypal, you have to give more to cover their usage fee.

A box of books and movies will be going out tomorrow to our adopted MI company near Kirkuk. I'll post contents after it's mailed.

Also, I have half filled a new box for our new unit that took over from CheneyChick's unit at Bagram, Afghanistan. Some of the books that jtill sent me will be going in that box. I already mailed out some coffee she sent to my brother to mail to a civilian contractor south of Baghdad.

Does anyone know what's up with the new ban on coffee going to the troops in Iraq??

Because I couldn't confirm that your adopted soldier at HHC got his headlamp, SW, I'm having Petzl America send me a couple headlamps directly, and they should arrive next week.

I'll repack one for Victor and one for airborne's nephew. Let me know if the APO's have changed.

I was going to send your soldiers more to pass around to their units, but Petzl America won't have enough stock till April 29 for a large order.

AND The GOOD NEWS is that I've arranged for a 501 (c) organization to handle the order for our local donor and he has upped his order (now that he'll get a tax deduction), and 100 or so headlamps will be heading out at the end of this month to the North Carolina branch of this troop support organization, and then out to our adopted company at Mosul.

Thought I'd give a heads up to Hanna and Lori, as they were the sparkplugs for this venture.

When it goes through, we'll get more information posted.

Meanwhile, I have to see that a box to MI at Kirkuk gets in the mail.

Cheers!