We send the bulk of our packages to Tal Afar, Rawah, Mosul, Kirkuk and Ramadi. Sent alot of stuff to Baghdad, but those units have come home now.
Am cultivating another SGM who may be able to set us up with a Special Forces unit in Afghanistan. So far we've been relegated there to sending care packages to the fire bases via convoying by member of a POC.
There's a remnant left at Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo that we send an occasional holiday package. They were cut off for a while due to a mudslide.
How was the mud this last winter where you were?
"A roadside bomb aimed at a U.S. military patrol exploded Friday morning in Dora, missing its target but wounding two Iraqi civilians who were driving nearby, said Abdul-Razzaq. A U.S. Army official confirmed that the attack had missed the American soldiers.
Three Iraqi policemen also were wounded by a roadside bomb that hit their patrol Friday in Baghdad's western neighborhood of Yarmouk, said Abdul-Razzaq. When police and witnesses rushed to the scene, a second bomb exploded, an AP photographer said."
The mud wasn't as bad this past winter for two reasons. It didn't rain as much this year and I'm in the middle of town where everything is paved.
Last winter ('04-'05), I was out on the desert at Taji (north Baghdad) and it rained a LOT. The mud here is the slimiest, slickest nastiest mud I have ever seen. I'm glad to be away from it. ;-)