How have I never been on this ping list?
What should I be buying & where should I send it? To you, or to someone directly in Iraq/Afghanistan?
One of our priests was reserves & got called up for Iraq, so our church has done a drive, but it seemed like so little. Also, when you send the entire parish out to buy exactly the same stuff over a week, the stores get stripped bare. I had a heck of a time finding plain black pocket combs, of all things.
Thanks for all you're doing!
Lucky?
Hi!
Your luck just ran out. You are now on the ping list.
Welcome! :-)
Not very many of our troops need combs, but we are doing a toiletries drive for Bagram, Afghanistan, (soap, shaving gel, toothpaste, deodorant still needed). FReepmail me if you want to make up a box.
Or you could send me a check, money order, cash (for popcorn and cookie snacks for the troops), Walmart shopping card (for Gold Bond body powder for a Battery Combat Team at Kirkuk), or a Target gift card (for toiletries for Bagram), or an Amazon gift certificate (for movies and books or a DVD player for the troops).
We have a Paypal account, but about the only place I can use it is at eBay, and I have already bought the 4th of July decorations and about all the movies I care to there. And Paypal will take $2.50 off the top of whatever you send.
I'm going to hit up a generous, patriotic local donor in the next few days for some more headlamps for Mosul. If he can't afford any more, I'll be looking for other donors to continue that project.
Or you can suggest something you have or think they might like and I can check if any of our adopted units would want it.
We kind of go with the flow here. We send what they ask for and dream up stuff they might like.
Let me know.