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.
You win a lot of points with just about anyone if you have candy! ;o)
Patty, darling hubby will soon be settled in at Kabul, and I'll keep you posted as to what the needs are there. Thanks so much for all you wonderful FReepers are doing for our fine troops.
Have Kayak put your hubby on the prayer list.
Things are evidentally intensifying in Afghanistan so I'll remember him, too.
Send along our good wishes and thanks!
They're still wet...
My last cat was female and had a couple litters before we neutered her. Always loved having kittens around.
But my current cat is 18 years old and male, so haven't had any wee ones in a very long time.
Next is a trip to the vet.
Patty-
I can send some popcorn. I think Price Club (or Costco or whatever it's called now) has mega-size boxes of microwave popocorn. So, I'll check that out. The guy at the post office gave me extra boxes when I took in my last shipment! Let me know what address for the popcorn.
I haven't heard anything from my last shipment - I think it's still a little early yet to hear anything, tho.
You have FReepmail!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH for picking up the request for popcorn from our troops at Kirkuk!
The box of toiletries, etc, you sent to Bagram arrived, and was generally acknowledged as one of "several boxes" that had come in from several members of our Merry Band of Patriots.
They have turned over now and we have a new contact there, who has written us an email with a general acknowledgement and thanks.
I think they have been very busy. The one group packing and leaving and the new unit getting their feet on the ground and learning the ropes.
I certainly appreciated you and airborne and mathluv and Coop and JustAmy stepping up and getting something to them quickly while I was swamped under with the 4th of July boxes.
You are all the BEST!!
Thanks, but it's YOU who are the best. I'm just a wanna-be! ;-)
Well, we have a pretty good leader too!
With you as our inspiration, how can we fail?!
Mailed July 16, 2005, to the new Battery at Kirkuk
(iceskater is going to send 100 microwave bags of popcorn to the MI unit at Kirkuk)
Box 1, insured $52.94, postage $9.90
25 bags Act II microwave popcorn flavor Kettle Corn
2 DVD movies:
Happy Gilmore (Adam Sandler)
Billy Madison (Adam Sandler)
2 cans 4 oz. Gold Bond body powder (1 reg, 1 extra medicated)
2 tubes 2 oz. antifungal cream
2 large packs Carefree sugarless gum Spearmint
Box 2, insured $43.85, postage $9.00
25 bags flavor Butter popcorn
3 DVD movies:
High Plains Drifter (Clint Eastwood)
Absolute Power (Clint Eastwood)
Bulletproof (Adam Sandler, Wayans)
2 cans 4 oz. Gold Bond body powder
Box 3, insured $64.48, postage $9.90
25 bags flavor Butter Lovers popcorn
4 DVD movies:
Dirty Harry (Clint Eastwood)
Tightrope (Clint Eastwood)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Clint Eastwood)
Big Daddy (Adam Sandler)
6 lipbalm 45 SPF
1 CD lens cleaner
Box 4, insured $54.04, postage $9.90
25 bags flavor Butter popcorn
3 DVD movies:
Escape from Alcatraz (Clint Eastwood)
Spanglish (Adam Sandler)
Death Wish 3 (Charles Bronson)
DVD recording made by MJY1288 of President Bush’s recent broadcast Address on Iraq
ooops, forgot the 6 lipbalm SPF 45 that were in box 4....
Finally, I've collected all of the items for my appreciation package . . . I planned to send the package to Kirkuk -- Do you want me to send it to Mosul instead?! [Let me know before Tuesday.]
APPRECIATION PACKAGE
Kirkuk, Iraq?
BOOKS:
“100 People Who are Screwing Up America (and Al Franken is #37)”
-- Bernard Goldberg
“A Matter of Character: Inside the White House of George W Bush”
-- Ronald Kessler
“The Truth About Hillary” – Edward Klein
“1776” – David McCullough
“The Purpose Drive Life” – Rick Warren
MAGAZINES:
1—“Chevy High Performance”
1—“Popular Hot Rodding”
1—“Lindy’s 2005 Pro Football”
1—“Lindy’s 2005 National College Football”
DVDs:
“Spider-Man”
“Spider-Man II”
“The Quiet Man” (John Wayne/Maureen O’Hara)
President George W Bush: A Speech to the Nation from Fort Bragg
FOOD/DRINK:
Starbuck’s Coffee
Lemon-Lime Gatorade
Tazo Assorted Black and Green Teas
Twizzlers
Bertie Bott’s Beans
Harry Potter Drooble’s (blowing gum)
Wrigleys Polar Ice gum
Old Fashioned Lemon Drops
Old Fashioned Cinnamon Drops
MISCELLANEOUS:
Aloe Vera Gel
Banana Boat Sport Lip Balm
AA Eveready batteries
35 MM Flack Cameras
Playing Cards (Poker)
Super Water Bombs
Dear Deb,
You have a choice.
I've already sent the President's speech on Iraq to the Battery at Kirkuk (MJY1288 sent me a bunch of copies), so you could send your package to the military intelligence group at Kirkuk instead.
MI has requested Westerns. Battery has requested Clint Eastwood and Adam Sandler. MI might like The Quiet Man best as they like John Wayne.
I have no other clues to offer you.
Either APO would be fine. I have donors of 1776 for Mosul, Bagram, and the Engineers at Baghdad. The only other unit that we haven't sent much to yet is the psyops in Baghdad. You can take what clues you can about what they would like from their 4th of July picture. Some of them might like the tea the best.
The only reason I suggested MI is that I don't think our new contact at the Battery is as interested in politics as Charles was. However, the contact at MI is very succinct, also, in his emails -- neither is a chatterer like Charles was -- so I don't know.
It would be interesting to hear about any reaction you get from either. They are both loosening up a tad since we've sent them so much stuff now.
I'll send you the APO for either MI at Kirkuk or Psyop at Bagram if you want your terrific package to go there instead of the Battery at Kirkuk.
Let me know.
Cheers!
Patty
OK, the military intelligence group at Kirkuk it is . . . Just freep mail me the address and I'll get the package in the mail!!
BTW: I'm also going to include some sleeveless Addidas shirts (per a recommendation from my son)!
FReepmail sent.
Is that aloe vera gel a shaving gel or a body lotion? And what size of coffee (ounces) and Gatorade (makes how many qts?) are you sending?
I know they'll like the shirts, although from the pictures of the Battery guys, I don't think they wear any shirts at this time of year when they are not on duty.
Anything they don't want they can trade. There are a lot of soldiers at Kirkuk.
FReepmail sent.
Is that aloe vera gel a shaving gel or a body lotion? And what size of coffee (ounces) and Gatorade (makes how many qts?) are you sending?
I know they'll like the shirts, although from the pictures of the Battery guys, I don't think they wear any shirts at this time of year when they are not on duty.
Anything they don't want they can trade. There are a lot of soldiers at Kirkuk.
Anything worth saying is worth saying twice....duh.
Here's the thread we work out of.
Welcome to our Merry Band of Patriots!!
Thanks for the ping! I'm going to read through more of this thread to get a better idea of how things work. I'll start on the westerns today. Looks like you could use much more than a few DVDs.
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