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.
Very nice! Thanks for sharing.
(speechless, for just a moment).
:-) Just WOW!
That picture is going to become my wallpaper! I've never bothered with wallpaper before. Never found a compelling enough picture.
Just WOW.
Thanks.
American solders have received 'care packages' from home , with which they celebrated the 4th of July.
They look very happy with the 'love from home', and I applaud the incredible job they do every day to keep North America safe!
Check the pics. Especially # 358. What a crowd, eh? Beautiful!
Thanks for this thread.
:-)
Great idea! Condi at the concert grand now bites the dust.
This group is now my wallpaper, too!
Should we ask her?
What am I saying? I'm Canadian. Y'all ask her. OK?
Woohoo! ... Great Pictures
More new photos above, thanks to you all chipping in and helping out.
Show Mrs. Diamondhead that her ironing job for all those swags held up pretty good.
bttt
Very cool pictures, Patty!
She saw them in the first set.
Mr. Patty's white shirt looks pretty good on Uncle Sam, too!
By the way, does that sign really say YE OLDE PUBE !!! LOL
AWESOME photos of our adopted 'Battery'!!!
I'm still waiting on my book order from Amazon . . . They must be waiting to include Goldberg's book before they mail the rest of the order!
[I'll let you know as soon as my package goes in the mail!]
Great pics. Thanks for posting them. What we do for them is so little compared to what they do for us.
I just finished reading "A Table in the Presence" by Lt. Carey H. Cash a chaplain who served with a Marine Battalion that was one of the first in Baghdad. It was an awesome account of some of the experiences of those brave men. I heartily recommend it to all.
Shhhhh! We weren't support to notice that....
Thanks for the book recommendation. Sounds like one I'll be interested in getting.
Would you be interested in getting 1776 and passing it along to the troops after you finish reading it?
It's a great book about the first year of the Revolutionary War. Colorful, fascinating, page turner.
Can anyone post a picture of Condi in her boots visiting some troops?
Yeah, I would like to read "1776". And I would be glad to pass it along to the troops. I will get an address from you when I am ready to send it.
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