My grandson is there. - Airborne Task Force - they call is "The Valley of Fire" because of the daily fire fights... 45 minutes from the nearest running water - 45 minutes of narrow twisting, IED'd road.
They depend on drops for water and food - and on getting the new anti-IED equipment to get there - that can only be brought in from Turkey.
Did I mention that I loathe Pelosi and her seditious gang?
The platoon is there for 15 months! the MRE's are getting pretty monotonous - not to mention often not enough. They love to get things like power bars with peanut butter, tuna fish (I send both cans and vacuum packs), dried fruits, licorice and lemon drops, toothpaste - and WIPES (no showers, running water! and I put everything in zip lock baggies as it's not just the sand but the finer sand-dust that gets into everything... - gum (with ONLY sugar for sweetener, no HFCS - High Fructose Corn Syrup ,,poison! and Aspartame, etc in hot weather can turn to formaldehyde inside the bode) - but gum helps keep their ears from popping (like on an airplane) when the almost nightly mortars come in.
It's starting to get cold, so I'm sending wool socks and knitting a wool helmet liner (the issue ones are not wool, not that warm. It gets brutal cold there in the mountains in winter, and they are mostly out in it, and even 'inside' no central heat or anything else we would call comfortable.
They thoroughly believe in their mission and are equally thoroughly disgusted with the traitorous RATS back here.
I included candy corn in last weeks boxes - for Halloween.
Going to find some canned turkey and Boston Market Turkey gravy and dry stuffing for the next boxes...(no ham products! verbotton to go there)These need to go out this week to get there in time. etc etc
Oh Oh - getting that devilish "temporarily unavailable" thingy again - hope this doesn't double post...