CARE PACKAGES for our Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, 2006

patriciaruth ^ | 1-21-06 | patriciaruth

[patriciaruth]

I ordered Desperate Crossing for our NPTT unit at Baghdad.

We generally don’t do a special Thanksgiving mailing. I think because we had troops once that said they wanted the goodies for Christmas. We tide over between 9/11 and Christmas with Halloween mailings which are going out this week as our units get their mail in 7-9 days generally. There are several people lined up to do packages for Christmas, but they won’t be mailing till the week before Thanksgiving.

Last time we had an adopted unit that was over a month out of touch was when the Stryker units were on the move a couple years ago.

I’ll ask the moderator to change the title of this thread to update it, but I’m too ill and tied up with my elderly mother right now to post a completely new one. I’ve given up trying to do that and am going to wait till January for the 2008 one.

I’m going back to check your other post, which was full of many suggestions (many of which we have sent in the past).

[patriciaruth]

Check our posts 31, 32, and 49, I believe, where we posted our usual operating procedures. The only thing that has changed since then, I think, is the postal rates.

[patriciaruth]

Could you update the title of this thread to

Care Packages for our Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, 2006-2007

I’m not well enough to post an updated thread and am going to wait till January to do one for 2008.

[Grizzled Bear]

I was at Camp Vance on Bagram AB back in 2005. Thank you so very much for what you do and God bless you!

GB

[maine-iac7]

Thank you SO MUCH! I think the troops will enjoy "Desperate Crossing" - They will be able to relate to the struggles, dangers and fortitude of people who didn't shrink, even after many dangers, persecutions and years, in completing their mission to obtain freedom.

[patriciaruth]

You may have seen one of the 6 foot prelit Christmas trees that daybreakcoming sent to Bagram via the PSYOP unit there in 2005.

Thank you so very much for your service.

Our troop support group is lesser in strength now due to the passing of some of our members, and the taxes on my time and energy having to take care of my elderly mother now; but we are still lurching along doing a few things.

[patriciaruth]

I’m also sending Gettysburg because of what Colonel Chamberlain endured and accomplished (won the Medal of Honor) as a result of not giving up.

The same message is in the book 1776 by David McCullough.

We try to get that book to all our adopted units.

[Grizzled Bear]

I was there from Jan - May. I still saw some of the things that were left after the holiday. I was only there for a short time compared to some of the Army folk! What you do really makes a difference for them.

Thank YOU for your service!

[patriciaruth]

Are they dropping care packages to them in Korengal Valley? Or would that package wait back at base till they return?

If the packages would get through, I’ll try to recruit an optometrist I know to send your grandson some beef jerky for his unit.

Please FReepmail me his APO and approximate number in his unit.

[patriciaruth]

And they say that you don’t play well with others....

[maine-iac7]

Not sure how they get delived - but it's about a 3-4 week from me mailing to him getting -

I'll freepmail you

[maine-iac7]

The Rock

really small, but I use PhotoBucket and it downsizes...

[Ros42]

Patty, Sent 3 Flat Rate Boxes of Halloween candy to Bagram yesterday.

Total cost of candy $75.00
Box 1 (all invidividually wrapped)

2 bags of Hersheys Kisses
1 bag of York Patties
2 bags Assorted Flavors, Bubble Gum Pops
1 bag Reese’s Crispy Crunchy Bars
2 bags Double Crisp Chocolate Pumpkins
2 bags Hersheys Milk Duds
2 bags Tootsie Roll Pops

Box 2

1 bag Nestle Butterfingers
1 bag Sncikers (almond)
1 bag Snickers
2 bags Smarties
2 bags Peanut Butter Kisses
2 bags Blow Pops
2-100 piece bags of Double Bubble Gum
1 bag Peanut M&M’s

Box3

1 bag Nestle Crunch Crisp bars
1 bag Peanut Butter M & M’s
1 bag Reeses Peanut Butter Cups
1 bag Cellar Dwellers (Double Crisp Chocoloate pumpkins and bats—Fudge filled cats & rats)
2 bags Iced Pumpkin Pops (suckers)
3 bags Twix Mini’s Minx (Snickers, Milky Way, 3 Musketeer, Dark Milky Way Twix)
Halloween Card :)

[patriciaruth]

WOW!!!

[SENClander]

I can send a box or two to your grandson, too — if you’d like me to.

[SENClander]

Wow, Amy — wonderful boxes. Glad you found the cider.

[SENClander]

I didn’t know you were ill, Patty. Hope you’re better soon. You’re the heart of the Merry Band.

[maine-iac7]

you have freep mail

[patriciaruth]

Mailed October 19, 2007, to NPTT at Baghdad:
1 box, insured $192.03, postage 11.40
15 funsize Snickers
1 bag 12 pkg Whoppers
1 bag 15 Reese’s peanut butter cups
2 TV series:
Smallville, Season 6
Planet Earth, BBC complete version with David Attenborough narrating
DVD movies:
Click (Adam Sandler)
Desperate Crossing (HISTORY channel story of the Pilgrims, Mayflower, and Plymouth settlement)
Gettysburg (Jeff Daniels, Martin Sheen, Tom Berenger)
Independence Day (Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman)
The Mummy (Brendan Frasier)/The Mummy Returns/The Scorpion King (The Rock)
4 Books:
Roberts Ridge (Malcolm MacPherson)
Reagan’s War (Peter Schweizer)
Man from the Broken Hills (Louis L’Amour)
Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)

Mailed October 19, 2007, to Bagram, Afghanistan,
1 box, insured $65.61, postage $11.00
1 box set TV series: Smallville, Season 6 (Tom Welling, Kristin Kruek)
2 bags 38.5 oz Hershey’s miniatures, dark chocolate and special nuts
1 bag 38.5 oz Hershey’s miniatures, mixture milk chocolate, dark, Mr. Goodbar, almond
1 bag Snickers funsize (~48)

[JustAmy]

Is anyone else having trouble opening post #2059?