Posted on 05/12/2005 4:21:21 PM PDT by AZHua87
SINGAPORE (NNS) -- Girl Scouts and Brownies from two troops in Singapore dropped in on the crew of USS Safeguard (ARS 50) during a port visit to Singapore to pass out boxes of Girl Scout cookies May 9.
The cookie delivery was part of Operation Thin Mint, a program developed by Girl Scouts in the San Diego area, where they teamed up with their customers to send cookies and handwritten notes of support to service men and women serving overseas.
“We’re extremely grateful to the Girl Scouts for bringing a piece of home out here to us while we’re deployed,” said Lt. Cmdr. Doyle Hodges, Safeguard commanding officer. “We’re delighted at the chance to show them around and teach them a little bit about what the Navy does.”
While aboard, the girls formed an old fashioned navy-style “working party” to "onload" the cookies and hand them out to eager crew members gathered on the fantail. Sailors where delighted to eat up this famous piece of American culture.
“Every time I take a bite out of a Girl Scout cookie, it reminds me of home,” said Seaman Corey Jones, who was holding onto a box of Samoas.
After handing out cookies, the girls took a quick tour of the ship, learning about its salvage and rescue mission and daily life aboard ship.
“The ship was great! I even got to sit in the captain’s chair!” said 8-year-old Cassandra Maillet, a member of Brownie Troop 30. She was one of more than 40 Scouts of various nationalities involved in scouting here who took part in the Operation Thin Mint event.
Since the project began in 2002, more than 438,000 boxes of Girl Scout cookies have been sent to military personnel deployed overseas. The staff of Commander, Logistics Group Western Pacific (CLWP) in Singapore has been involved since the beginning. This year, CLWP will ship more than 40,000 boxes of Girl Scout cookies to more than a dozen ships operating in U.S. 7th Fleet.
“It’s great sending cookies to all those ships,” said Lt. Philip Lowrey, CLWP’s combat logistics force and transportation officer. “We’ve had a great response from the Sailors, and that makes it worth it.”
The majority of the cookies in the 7th Fleet area of operations are being delivered by Combat Logistics Force ships of the Military Sealift Command during routine underway replenishments with operating forces.
Safeguard operates from Sasebo, Japan, as part of the 7th Fleet's Forward Deployed Naval Forces.
Girl Scouts are supporting the Navy.
Operation "Thin Mint"...how cute. Go Girl Scouts! That ought to be worth a special badge!
Girl Scouts bttt!
Almost worth re-enlisting for.
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