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Status report:

Assuming that our 2 1/2 adopted 172nd Stryker units at Baghdad will be home by Christmas (which is not a done deal), we will be left with 5 adopted units to supply for Christmas:

new Stryker unit at Mosul
Camp Ramadi
small unit training Iraqi soldiers at Baghdad
Bagram air base in Afghanistan and their fire bases
Possibly our first Marine unit (local Mom has son who went to Iraq recently, and may be at Fallujah. She's going to call me his APO when she gets off work today.)

As I am going to be out of touch Nov 1-18 while I am in Texas packing up Mom to bring her here to live with me, I am looking to organize the Christmas volunteers in the next couple weeks before I leave.

Please let me know if you can send a care package(s) for Christmas or can donate toward purchase of items for our adopted units (check, cash, Paypal, Walmart/Target/Amazon gift certificates, etc. accepted). We also hope to get people to send Christmas cards and/or letters.

Mailed October 14, 2006, 2 boxes to the new Stryker unit at Mosul
Box 1, insured $54.57, postage $10.40
4 DVD movies:
Flight 93
Last of the Mohicans (Daniel Day-Lewis)
Mercury Rising (Bruce Willis)
Independence Day (Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum)
4 bags Hallowe’en candy
Brach’s Indian Corn 20.9 oz (~550)
Snickers 22 oz fun size (~38)
Kitkats 20.1 oz (~42)
Hershey’s 11 oz. Nut Lovers miniatures (~35)
2 magazines:
Reader’s Digest, November
Washington Times Weekly, Oct 9
2007 Reagan calendar
2 travel Kleenex

Box 2, value $30.45, postage $8.60 with delivery confirmation
5 bags Hallowe’en candy:
Brach’s mellowcreme pumpkins (~96)
Whopper’s 9 oz malted milk balls (~12 packs)
Reese’s 22.53 oz peanut butter cups (~28 packs)
Hershey’s minibars Assortment 25.97 oz (dark choc, milk choc, choc almonds) (53)
Bag 16 oz strawberry Twislers (60)
15 DVD recordings by MJY1288 (2 Rush Limbaugh, 2 programs honoring soldiers in Iraq, 1 Condi speech, SOTU and various speeches by President Bush)

Mailed October 14, 2006, to Camp Ramadi
1 box, insured $80.33, postage $10.40
1 TV series boxed set:
Smallville, Season 5
2 DVD movies:
Frequency (Dennis Quaid, Jim Caviezel)
Lethal Weapon (Mel Gibson, Danny Glover)
5 bags Halloween candy:
Hershey’s minibars Assortment 25.97 oz, (dark choc, milk choc, choc almond) (53)
Reese’s miniature peanut butter cups, 14.8 oz. (~55)
Three Musketeers 11 oz, (~21)
Brach’s mellowcreme pumpkins (~96)
Snickers 22 oz fun size (~38)
1 magazine: Sports Illustrated, October 16, SECPower

Mailed October 14, 2006, to small unit training Iraqi soldiers in Baghdad (to brother of our contact at A company of Stryker in Baghdad)
1 box, insured $47.67, postage $9.95 with delivery confirmation
4 DVD movies:
Flight 93
The Man from Snowy River (Tom Burlinson)
Tombstone (Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott)
Quick and the Dead (Sam Elliott, Kate Capshaw)
3 bags Hallowe’en treats
Oreo minis 9 oz. (~18 packs)
M&mM plain 22.53 oz (~36 packs)
Reese’s Peanut Butter cups 21 oz (~28 packs)