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Today I ordered 12 headlamps LED 4 black (covered push button and red filter) from Petzl America to be sent to our adopted Styker company at Mosul.

I checked with the commander of our Stryker company at Mosul and he said he would definitely like to have this item for his troops.

The manager for the headlamp division matched us, donating 12 more, so 24 are being mailed priority to their APO directly in care of the commander of our Stryker company.

Several of you have already pledged for 4 or more of these lamps, which go for around $43 a piece retail. The manager has promised to match us headlamp for headlamp to purchase up to around 45 more, making it possible to send up to 90 more headlamps to any soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan that you all want.

I am going to ask my contact at Mosul to run a few of this initial batch over to headquarters to be given to a few specific soldiers who have been adopted by a couple of the ones who have pledged contributions already. If that isn't easy for him, then I'll have the next batch mailed to me first so I can repackage some of them individually for the specific adopted soldiers.

And I'll do that for any specific soldier that anybody sends me the money to cover the purchase and mailing expense, say $25.

So, those of you who are tapped out from Christmas donations, please check around FR and if you find people talking about headlamps or talking about sending care packages to soldiers, then suggest they drop by here.

Anybody who wants to join in, FReepmail me for instructions on donating. I accept checks, money orders, cash, Walmart shopping cards, Target gift cards, and Amazon gift certificates.

I'll post again when I hear back from Mosul that the first shipment arrived.