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CARE PACKAGES for our Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, 2005
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1273305/posts ^ | 2-18-05 | patriciaruth

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.


TOPICS: Announcements; Extended News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; carepackages; iraq; oef; oif; soldiers; supportourtroops; troops
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To: CAluvdubya

Browse around. This is an unusual thread as the middle is taken up with some family emergencies. There are links around post 21 to most of our older threads.


421 posted on 07/18/2005 8:20:24 PM PDT by patriciaruth (They are all Mike Spanns)
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To: 4integrity

Ping.

This is our current thread. There are links around post 21 to most of our older threads.


422 posted on 07/18/2005 8:21:34 PM PDT by patriciaruth (They are all Mike Spanns)
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To: SuziQ

Any recent news on your nephew who was and may still be in Afghanistan?

Please let us know how he is.


423 posted on 07/18/2005 8:52:17 PM PDT by patriciaruth (They are all Mike Spanns)
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To: DAVEY CROCKETT

Did you ever get those car magazines mailed out?


424 posted on 07/18/2005 9:46:42 PM PDT by patriciaruth (They are all Mike Spanns)
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To: shezza

Any news from Kabul yet?


425 posted on 07/18/2005 10:04:31 PM PDT by patriciaruth (They are all Mike Spanns)
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To: patriciaruth

I heard from my brother that Alexander was involved in the mission during which that Chinook was shot down. He was busy the following week in the search for the remaining Seal team and in going after the bad guys. He flies the Apache Longbow D.


426 posted on 07/18/2005 11:49:58 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: patriciaruth

You are reading my mind. They will go out tomorrow. Sorry for the delay.
DC

j


427 posted on 07/19/2005 12:40:08 AM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT (Character exalts Liberty and Freedom, Righteous exalts a Nation.)
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To: DAVEY CROCKETT

Most of us end up sending stuff several weeks after we thought we could manage to do it.

They don't know they are coming, so they will be doubly thrilled!!

Thank you!!


428 posted on 07/19/2005 3:47:54 AM PDT by patriciaruth (They are all Mike Spanns)
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To: SuziQ

Sounds like you or I had better put him on Kayak's prayer list if you haven't already.

He'll certainly be on my personal one from now on.

God bless these soldiers! I am in awe of what they are doing out there in The Twilight Zone.

Give him our best, and let us know if they need anything or simply would enjoy something.


429 posted on 07/19/2005 3:50:54 AM PDT by patriciaruth (They are all Mike Spanns)
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To: patriciaruth

Operation Crayon boxes sent:

20 notebooks
20 crayons
10 elmer's glue

Idea on a movie, The Pacifier. Kiddos and I watched it recently; a hoot.


430 posted on 07/20/2005 4:21:09 PM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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To: ican'tbelieveit

THANKS so much for sending the school supplies! Little things like this do help make our soldiers safer.

What's the Pacifier about?


431 posted on 07/20/2005 4:38:54 PM PDT by patriciaruth (They are all Mike Spanns)
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To: patriciaruth

About a Navy Seal ordered to protect a family until the government can recover a program that the recently deceased dad was working on.


432 posted on 07/20/2005 5:04:49 PM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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To: ican'tbelieveit

And it was funny?

Who was in it?


433 posted on 07/20/2005 5:07:38 PM PDT by patriciaruth (They are all Mike Spanns)
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To: patriciaruth

Yeah, pretty funny. Vin Diesel is the SEAL. Kids are a mess: teenagers rebelling; middle daughter has a crush on Diesel and likes his "boobs;" and the required baby with diapers and all interaction.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395699/


434 posted on 07/20/2005 5:11:42 PM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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To: ican'tbelieveit

Oh, yes, I've seen trailers on this movie.

I know there are some vin Diesel fans out among the soldiers, as I sent A Man Apart and XXX and Chronicles of Riddick to them on requests.

I wonder if this movie is like Kindergarten Kop was for Arnold Schwarzenegger...an attempt to expand and extend his career beyond action roles.

I enjoyed Kindergarten Kop but I think others panned it.

I'm not sure the gung ho units I sent the other vin Diesel movies to will want to see their hero changing diapers, but I do have other mixed units with family men and young women who will probably enjoy it.

Anyone want to get this for the troops and send it to me or mail it to them yourself?


435 posted on 07/20/2005 5:24:52 PM PDT by patriciaruth (They are all Mike Spanns)
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To: ican'tbelieveit; Ros42

See, Ros, I finally got your 3 subject notebooks mailed!

Operation Crayon boxes mailed to Kirkuk on July 21, 2005:

Box 1, value $10.62, postage $7.70
30 boxes of 24 Crayola crayons
5 school notebooks (4 wide rule 1 subject 70 pages, 1 wide rule 3 subjects 120 pages)
1 ruler 18 cm

Box 2, value $2.59, postage $7.70
23 wide rule 1 subject school notebooks 70 pages
1 college ruled 1 subject notebook 70 pages

Box 3, value $2.48, postage $7.70
23 college rule 1 subject school notebooks 70 pages

Box 4, value $11.16, postage $7.70
30 boxes of 24 Crayola crayons
6 school notebooks (2 wide rule 3 subjects 120 pages, 3 wide rule 1 subject 70 pages, 1 college rule 1 subject 70 pages)


436 posted on 07/21/2005 7:01:41 PM PDT by patriciaruth (They are all Mike Spanns)
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To: ican'tbelieveit

The Pacifier was selling for 19.95 at WalMart.

Think we'll have to shop around and see if we can get it cheaper.


437 posted on 07/21/2005 7:02:54 PM PDT by patriciaruth (They are all Mike Spanns)
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To: patriciaruth
Operation Crayon

Box 1

7 each pkg of notebook paper, and spiral notebooks

Box 2

3 pkgs construction paper

5 Elmer's glue

24 glue sticks

7 crayons

438 posted on 07/22/2005 6:29:49 AM PDT by mathluv (Mercy shown to an evil man is cruelty to the innocent.)
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To: patriciaruth
Bagram boxes

Box 1

1 box wet wipes

nerf football

2 travel size wet wipes

3 decks of playing cards

2 pkg os 90 flossers

Box 2

12 Bic razors

2 frisbees

3 Dove Shampoo/Conditioner combo

1 pkg hair clips

4 Right Guard

2 puzzle books

I am working on another box. I will let you know when it is ready. I will get these out today.

439 posted on 07/22/2005 7:19:15 AM PDT by mathluv (Mercy shown to an evil man is cruelty to the innocent.)
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To: mathluv

Fabulous!

Can you remember how many sheets of paper were in your packs and in the notebooks?

After I mail some stuff today, I'll ping everyone to see what you and nina0113 and Ican'tbelieveit have been up to.


440 posted on 07/22/2005 2:14:19 PM PDT by patriciaruth (They are all Mike Spanns)
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