[Marine_Uncle]

"I wonder if such things have been/are being done."

One never knows. But I believe in respect to the Islamic faith, and agreements meet with the Iraqi's way back when,
our military are not allowed to import into the country anything that is forbade, such as alchohol and pork products.
However, it would be erroneous not to point out that some coalition troops have through more secular Arabs and others in parts of Iraq, obtained alcholic beverages. After all one only walk into a liquere store in Baghdad for instance to obtain lets say a point of booze. Under Saddam booze was permitted in the country.

[rdl6989]

Thanks, I didn't know that about the pork products.

[Wolverine]

"Send a Salami to your Boy in the Army!"  the salami-shipping trend has transcended the decades since World War II .

Most people credit Katz’s Deli for “Send a Salami to Your Boy in the Army,” but it actually comes from Louie the Waiter.

12 November 1943, Washington Post, pg. 13:
The New Yorker will do a profile on Louie, the Waiter, who coined the couplet, “Send a Salami to Your Boy in the Army,” and who alone sold $2,060,000 in war bonds at the delicatessen in the Fifties where he is employed.

The bonds he sold paid for 66 P-47 THunderbolt fighter planes and each bore the name “Louie the Waiter” and his sales record to that date.