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[JavaJumpy]

Cookies, baked goods & related gifts shipped to APO/FPO addresses for free. These are GOOD cookies!!

[NautiNurse]

Link doesn't work :o(

[JavaJumpy]

Bad link, here's the correct one: www.cherylco.com

My apologies.

[JavaJumpy]

I'm sorry! It should work now.

[kellynla]

As a grunt who served in Viet Nam in 69 & 70, save your money and bake your own cookies. Looks like $20 is the cheapest box of cookies and let me inform you that by the time they get the cookies they will by crumbs. For $20 you could bake a whole lot of cookies. If you have a 99 cent store in your neighborhood, go down and buy 20 boxes of cookies. Or buy some girl scout cookies. That way the money goes to a good cause for a good cause. Semper Fi

[Mark]

I read somewhere that the military did not want stuff sent because it takes up needed space on the planes going over there.

[Mark]

NOW I checked and found this story. I hope that they are getting the packages out.

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Posted Mar. 27, 2003

Man buys $10K worth of cookies for troops

The Post-Crescent (Wisconsin)

NEENAH — Dr. Lawrence Bauer took a cue from actor Bruce Willis in coming to the assistance of American troops overseas.

After hearing a recent radio report that Willis donated 12,000 boxes of Girl Scout cookies to U.S. troops serving in Afghanistan, the Neenah radiologist purchased $10,000 in cookies from the Girl Scouts of the Fox River Area Inc.

“I thought, ‘Geez, I can do that,’” Bauer said Wednesday. “I’m a patriotic person, so I called the Girl Scouts to see what I could to do support our troops in the Middle East. I’m not a millionaire or a movie star like Bruce Willis, but I can afford $10,000.”

The cookies purchased by Bauer will be sent directly from the Girl Scouts’ cookie company to the USO Care Package Program and will be distributed to members of the military as they board planes and ships and head overseas.

The Girl Scouts’ most popular cookies — Thin Mints — won’t be making the trip, though. Nor will any other with chocolate, which doesn’t fare so well in desert heat.

According to Cathryn Mutschler, chief executive officer of the local Girl Scout council, filling the order for 3,300 boxes of cookies was a piece of cake.

“That was the easy part,” she said. “The hard part was actually getting them overseas.”

The troops won’t be the only ones to benefit from the sale. Bauer’s gift has been a big boost for Fox Valley Girl Scouts in a year that has seen cookie sales slump. Proceeds from the annual sale support the organization’s programs throughout the year.

Bauer said he was pleased that his donation helped Girl Scouts and military personnel. “I had been trying to think of some way to support our troops,” he said. “This is a win-win.”

[JavaJumpy]

OK, I found this report (which may be posted somewhere out there already)...some alternatives (in addition to Kelly's) to expensive cookies!!!! Thanks for the feedback.

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www.seattlepi.com

Wednesday, March 26, 2003 · Last updated 5:57 a.m. PT

U.S. Seeks to Curb Some Parcels to Troops

By MONA CHAMBERLIN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Legions of well-meaning church groups and schoolchildren have overwhelmed the military with unsolicited care packages and letters for troops fighting in and around Iraq.

Because of security concerns, the Department of Defense has started advising people that many of the packages and letters intended for random troops can't be accepted.

In addition to possibly exposing military personnel to biological or chemical threats, unsolicited mail competes for limited airlift space with mail sent by friends and relatives, the Pentagon said.

In October 2001, anthrax concerns led defense officials to abolish the "Operation Dear Abby" and "Any Service Member" postal programs, now conducted through e-mail.

"There's great support ... for the deployed servicemen - not only for National Guard but for all the services - and believe me, the people who are deployed need that support," said Lt. Col. Pete Brooks, spokesman for the South Carolina National Guard.

"The problem comes in not knowing what is in the prepackaged packages, and of course that comes from the anthrax scare."

Phillip Reavis, principal at Oakview Elementary in Simpsonville, said his pupils were already writing letters when word came that they might not be delivered.

"We have been looking at some other opportunities, such as electronic mail," Reavis said.

Children at Newington Elementary in Summerville collected items to fill more than 270 shoeboxes for troops, which teachers took to nearby Charleston Air Force Base on Monday - despite the Pentagon advisory.

"These packages are all inspected here by our people and then sealed up," said Lt. Col. Bruce Adkins of the 701st Airlift Squadron. "We are trying to do the best we can to get them distributed."

Supporters elsewhere were unhappy with the policy but seemed to understand.

"It's too bad," said Irene Ungson, a nurse from Campbell, Calif., who was trying to find out how a Girl Scout group could send letters to soldiers. "You don't necessarily have to believe in the war, but I think we need to be supporting the guys over there."

The Department of Defense refers troop supporters to the USO, which accepts $25 donations toward Pentagon-approved packages for soldiers headed overseas. The packages contain items that military personnel have requested - such as CDs, books, toiletries, sunscreen and, the most popular, calling cards - along with a message from the person who provided the contribution.

Most of the packages go to departing troops, because delivering items in the middle of a battle is a logistical nightmare, said Elaine Rogers, president of the USO of Metropolitan Washington.

American Red Cross spokeswoman Stacey Grissom said her office is encouraging people to contact their local Red Cross to determine where support is needed most. Volunteering time at veterans' hospitals and helping military families left behind is often more important - and probably more successful - than trying to send cookies or shaving supplies to the front lines, she said.

USO officials said their group can use cash donations to support other programs, which include housing for family members of wounded soldiers or entertainment events.

And Brooks, of the National Guard, was quick to say that the military doesn't want to seem like it doesn't appreciate the thought.

"We're very grateful for all the support that is going on, it's just that the support needs to come in the way that the Department of Defense has approved," he said.

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On the Net:

http://www.defendamerica.mil/support-troops.html

http://www.usocares.org

http://www.redcross.org

http://www.aafes.com/docs/homefront.htm

[Smocker]

Whatever you do, bake them yourself if best, buying GirlScout cookies would be a donation to the feminist lesbian cadre that runs the organization and which brainwashes young girls to their ideology.

[BunnySlippers]

I thought they said not to send packages. They said email and letters only from family are accepted.