Tobacco Shortage Makes Marines Irritable

GOUPSTATE.COM ^ | April 01, 2003 | RAVI NESSMAN

[AmericanMade1776]

SOMEONE GET THESE GUYS SOME CIGARETTES!!!

[InvisibleChurch]

the irony is that the mideast is the world's biggest ashtray

[thoughtomator]

Tell me where to send them and I'll order up a few cartons of Marlboros right now.

[sam_paine]

Seriously. I'll make a trip to WalMart and FedEx today if someone will tell me how to send them.

[firewalk]

.

[joesnuffy]

Cpl. Aeron Jackson, 22, of Circleville, Ohio, sold 9 tins of chewing tobacco, for which he paid $4 each, for prices that started at $5 and escalated to $20 as his comrades run out.

Send you cigs to this guy and split the profits with him...beats the heck outta the market <>sarcasm</>

[raisincane]

Cigs used to be included in the rations. Now that we are a PC nation, tobacco is taboo! GEEESH! Get our forces some smokes!

[Beck_isright]

I've emailed CigarDave and asked him to contact the USO to find out how we can contribute. I've suggested a program called "Stogies for Victory" or "Blunts for Baghdad" or whatever he wants to call it, but we need to take action. As soon as he gets something up on this, I'll let everyone know.

V

[mollynme]

I think you have to have a specific person to send them to. Since the anthrax attack, the military won't deliver any other kind of mail. Maybe one of your aquaintences has the name & address of someone serving in Kuwait.

[g'nad]

Ladies... you know what to do...

[AmericanMade1776]

I read on the USO site, that the troops can not recieve packages due to security measures, but that the USO sends care packages to the troops, maybe the USO should be contacted, as to how to get them cigarettes. I do not smoke, and do not encourage it, but this is..different. :-)

[thoughtomator]

post a link to the USO site please

[AmericanMade1776]

http://www.uso.org/pubs/8_13_18.cfm?CFID=1331385&CFTOKEN=51458909

USO SITE

[genxer]

Funny you guys should mention this. I spent yesterday on the phone with various government agencies trying to figure out how to go about sending cigs, diaperwipes, toilet paper. All stuff they've run out of and that the govt doesn't supply. So we are now on a hunt for a "soilder" and his platoon to adopt so we can start sending stuff.

The recruiting office, who finally answered the question was very nice and kept apologizing that he couldn't help more said that you have to get a name of an actual soilder on the front and contact their family. They have addresses that arent to be made public because they don't want anthrax and other nasties being mailed. So you just can't send package. So today we are spending the day calling the local churches and such to see if we can locate a family who would be willing to let our little company adopt their family mameber on the front line.

This has been hard but very well worth it.

[vin-one]

I heard a guy on the local DC radio station, begging people to send him cans of copenhagen snuff
It is like gold over there.
The problem is getting it the front lines.

[AmericanMade1776]

SEE ABOVE

[Beck_isright]

Got it but I want to use a public figure to help raise smokes for our boys for two reasons:
1. It's more effective and he'll get a bigger response.
2. To poke a finger in the eye of the PC police.

V

[ET(end tyranny)]

Would the USO give them cigarettes??? Or has the
USO become PC too? With few packages being allowed through, it sure would be an easy way to sensor what they receive.

[HairOfTheDog]

Ladies... you know what to do...

At their service g'nad!

[capydick]

TO KUWAIT WITH LOVE CAMPAIGN: Sending a care package to our Chaplains in Kuwait will provide much needed supplies and goodies to hundreds of soldiers. Do not send pork products.

Chaplain (Captain) Chuck Atanasio HQ/A 426 FSB Unit# 96036 APO/AE 09325-6036

Items needed, baby wipes, pre-packaged foods, lip balm, eye drops / eye wash, petroleum jelly for dry skin, cotton men's socks (dark solid colors, size 10-13), and powdered drink mixes such as sugared Kool-Aid & Gatorade. Also needed are writing material and envelopes plus any kind of board games.

Also - here is a great group to work with getting care packages to our troops:

http://www.adoptaplatoon.org/