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You are right about the coffee in the Exchanges. I've been dispatching boxes with bags of Seattle's Best and Starbucks to LCpl Namsman Jr. since he deployed. He says he's pretty popular with the coffee drinkers.

Namsman sends.

Yeah, the Starbucks. They had something like that going at Camp Victory in early 2004 sent from the company. Starbucks was sending over 1 lb. bags to troops. Good stuff too. There was a high ranking officer here for New Years (CJCS ?) who was handing out part of like an 18,000 lb. shipment of Starbucks coffee the company sent over -again. There's Green Bean and the PX but if AAFEES has a say they'll squash the freebies. They did that to the Hadjis who've been undercutting the PX or selling better stuff from their ad-hoc conex setups. Then stuff like coffee, etc. goes missing from the smaller bases and you see the Pakistani cooks sipping coffee outside their hooches.... yeah, the stuff of riots.

If Namsman Jr.'s base isn't getting coffee at the PX (it happened a lot in Babylon) I'd try getting some proof of this or something and contacting Starbucks HQ about shipping donations directly to that base. Most of the gratis stuff piles up at the log. and HQ bases, not getting to the troops who appreciate/need it the most. The bigger bases usually have all that anyways in the PX as the scumbags usually don't pull their C*^&^* around the flag pole. The command even has a gift shop here selling souvenirs so they can purchase stuff to send to the troops at the boonie bases.

If Jr. is pulling ops outside the gate S@#@#$ the coffee and get him some Modealert (Modafinil). It's all-eyes-and-ears + mental sharpness without the nerves, hype and side effects of stimulants. It counteracts sleep deprivation without jitteryness or nerves while increasing alertness and focus. It's also not addictive like stimulants.

So, sh!t on a shingle is no longer standard issue?