Posted on 02/19/2005 12:40:42 AM PST by patriciaruth
Time for a new thread!
Our Merry Band of Patriots has seen a psy-ops unit at Bagram, Afghanistan, help educate voters in Afghanistan and come home successfully, while we supported them and special forces in the field by sending over 100 movies and many packages of snacks and toiletries and Hallowe'en candy. A Christmas tree and decorations (Daybreakcoming) and stockings (Ican'tbelieveit) and cards and over 400 candy canes were sent for their follow-on unit, and a box with movies and magazines and misc is just beginning to fill for their next care package. The movies and books we sent previously went into the Special Forces library there.
We've seen Beast Battery at Kirkuk, Iraq, through till their deployment home, sending them over 100 movies and dozens of books and a microwave and DVD/VCR player (from arjay) and many big boxes of snacks. Plus a huge wave of goodies was organized by McLynnan for Christmas in Kirkuk (2 prelit trees, ornaments, Santa suit, many stockings with stuffers, many cards, and a couple thousand candy canes to share out with all the forces there).
We've supported the 411th Engineers at Baghdad in 2004 with about 70 movies and several dozen books, a Playstation 2 and a Nintendo console with a couple dozen games (from asgardshill and ican'tbelieveit), a 4 foot Christmas tree and ornaments and boxes of snacks and many cards and 600 candy canes. In the next couple months we will be bidding them Godspeed as they return to their homebase in Hawaii.
We've sent over 50 movies, a DVD/VCR player (from arjay), and a dozen and a half books to an MI unit near Kirkuk, plus some Christmas decorations and stocking stuffers, and many cards and 156 candy canes. They have mostly left for home now and we just sent a package with more movies to their follow-on unit.
Also we have sent some packages to an Aviation unit at Balad, Iraq and to an Infantry Medics unit, and a small Christmas package each to another AVN unit and an MP unit.
Stryker Infantry company formerly at Fallujah and now at Mosul since November has been the major focus of our care packages these past months. All of Stryker at Mosul has taken fire, and our adopted company has suffered a KIA and some soldiers with severe injuries.
Early on we sent food items (mostly power bars and dried fruit and nuts) then Christmas stockings stuffed with goodies and many cards and 200 candy canes, and since Christmas have begun sending movies. They recently received a DVD/VCR player (from arjay) and with the movies just mailed today their collection will total about 75 movies and a dozen books.
And all this happened because our grassroots volunteer group began forming in the early summer of 2001 to send care packages to Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo, when the 101st Airborne and then the 10th Mountain were there.
The contents of packages just mailed will be listed in post below.
Patty, I'm anxious to see the email and photo that you mentioned from our group in Mosul! :-)
Wow, Patty! This Rejoices my Heart! God Bless Everyone who Ministered/is Ministering to our Troops, and Cover with Grace our Military men and women! (Wonderful Pictures and Email, Ros42!)
Box One
2 boxes Little Debbie Swiss Cake rolls (10 per box), 2 boxes Little Debbie Marshmallow pies (6 per box), 2 boxes Little Debbie Peanut Butter wafers (12 per box), 1 box Little Debbie Banana Marshmallow pies (6 per box), 1 pkg. Little Debbie Choc. Sugar wafers, 2 pkgs. Chips Ahoy cookies, 2 pkgs Oreo cookies, 2 bags Beef Jerky, 1 bag Dubble Bubble gum, 4 pkgs. gum (5 packs per pkg.) 2 playing cards.
Box 2
6 boxes Swiss Miss Hot Choc mix (10 per box), 2 boxes Creme filled cookies, choc. strawberry, banana (10 pkgs. per box), 2 pkgs. Tootsie Roll snack bars (10 per pkg.), 2 pkgs 100 Grand bars (10 per pkg.), 2 Pringles chips (Original, Cheesums), 1 pkg. Chips Ahoy cookies, 1 plastic tub Caramal Corn, 1 pkg. Mary Jane taffy (approx, 30 pieces), 1 bag assorted candy, 1 box sandwich bags.
ADDITIONS/CORRECTIONS to some of my previous posts:
post 1163: December 12, box 3 to Mosul, value 20.49, postage 7.70
post 1139: December 8 box to Mosul, insured 137.36 (value 138.50), postage 10.90
post 1080: November 30 box 11 to Engineers Baghdad, insured $81.08, postage $9.90
That's great, kattracks! Coming on the heels of my packages, they'll be really encouraged that we haven't forgotten them now that Christmas is over.
Still waiting on the pic you want me to post :-(
I deleted the pic
EMAIL from MOSUL:
Dr. ** -
Sorry it has taken me so long to respond, our internet connection has been sporadic for the last few weeks.
I have received most of the New Years boxes and we send our thanks to you and all the MBoP folks! I took most of the items down to the combat outpost we man that is separate from our main base. There are considerable less amenities out there and those items helped the guys who were there for Christmas and New Years.
I have sent the "moose nugget" ornament back to you. I thank you for sharing it with us.
I had a Soldier takes some pictures of the Christmas trees but I have yet to get them on digits from him.
I do have one photo I am passing along to you. [posted above.] We had a re-enlistment ceremony and got my platoon together for a little photo op for all the MBoP as a gesture of thanks. Hopefully you can pass along in an email to all those who contribute.
We thank you again.
Sincerely,
LT **
Dear All,
Above (post 1237) is a list of care packages that members of our Merry Band of Patriots sent to our adopted units and hospitals. It was so awesome, I decided to post it for everyone to smile and gasp over. I invite those who sent packages not on this list to post what they sent and where it went, especially if your package went to one of our adopted units and didn't get on the official posted list.
Also, at post 1249 above is a monster size PICTURE of one of the platoons at MOSUL (give it time to download), and the EMAIL that came with it is at the post just below it, at 1250. We also have pictures at posts 1231, 1230, 1205, 1193, 1125, and 1077.
This is my last ping to the 2005 thread. (I think) We'll start a 2006 thread in a week or so. Anyone who gets any more Christmas pictures from our units, please post them on this thread.
Kattracks and I sent some care packages this past week to Mosul to help cheer them up. But I've been thinking it might be a good idea for those of us who want to send more care packages to them to pool our funds over the next weeks and see if we can get Mosul an Xbox or Playstation2 or some Gameboys. That sort of item may give them more cheer over time than the quickly consumed goodies we've been sending.
Let me know if any of you want to be involved in this special project.
Woohoo!! Great picture and email! I love it! :) God Bless them all!
Save it now, cause it's a very large file and I will be taking it down by Friday, Leaving it up could cost me big bucks if a whole bunch of people link to it :-)
Tis saved! :)
:-)
Don't worry about removing the picture in a day or two if it's costing you money to post it.
New Perspective is down with a bad cold. When he gets better, I'll ask him to downsize the picture and repost it.
No problem, it would take well over 1000 links before it went beyond my limit of web traffic
It's really not the size of the file as it is the amount of traffic. Bandwidth of the Picture is stationary, it's the traffic of having it downloaded and uploaded that will push me beyond my limit
Hey, everybody!
If you want to put the Mosul platoon picture in your file, let me know and I'll email it to you (if I know you and you send me your email address).
You are an Angel, I will leave it up through the weekend
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