Just one of the many packages lovingly sent from family members back home, for American soldiers on the front line in Iraq.
~ U.S. Army photo by Spc. Frank Pellegrini
Tenn. Army Reservists
Deliver Mail to the Front
By U.S. Army Sgt. Frank N. Pellegrini
U.S. Army Reserve Public Affairs
UNDISCLOSED U.S. MILITARY BASE, Kuwait — Here at the Joint Military Mail Terminal, where soldiers of Operation Iraqi Freedom enter the theater, the letters and packages keep coming in. On the unloading dock, Army and Marine postal troops roll up the doors of 40-foot trucks filled from back to front and top to bottom with bulging orange mail sacks and boxes marked “Happy Birthday” or “Thinking of You.”
Lined up two-by-two in a postal bucket brigade, they heft each item out of the truck and pass it down the line and finally heft it onto the clattering rollers that take the mail down to the cavernous sorting warehouses on either side.
The JMMT receives hundreds of thousands of pounds of mail every day from the Kuwait International Airport via JFK International in New York City, the stateside Army and Fleet Mail system collection point.
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Army Reserve Staff Sgt. Jeff Campbell (center), of Jacksboro, Tenn., places mail bound for the front lines on a conveyer at the coalition’s mail distribution center in Kuwait.
~ U.S. Army photo by Spc. Frank Pellegrini