If you can get us in contact with a Stryker unit, we will send some headlamps to them.
Mailed directly by Petzl America on November 16, 2007, to Stryker at FOB Warhorse: 18 TacTikka Plus headlamps (4 L.E.D., flip up red lens, covered push button, batteries).
Cost: $408.78 plus postage of $17.85 = $426.63 (donations from Enterprise, jtill, manna, PigRigger, Kitty Mittens, and MEG33)
I haven’t been able to contact daybreakcoming who used to buy 6 1/2 feet tall prelit multicolored lights artificial Christmas trees and have them shipped to our units.
Right now our newly adopted Stryker unit at Baqubah could very much enjoy a tree for Christmas. Enterprise and ican’t believeit have donated enough to cover the cost of getting one, but we need a volunteer on the East Coast to pick one up at Walmart or Pennys or some store having them at a good price (around $100) and ship it out priority USPS before Thanksgiving. I can mail the volunteer a check to cover purchase and postage as soon as he/she knows the total amount.
I still had quite a bit of Halloween candy left despite having over 400 Trick or Treaters and so included it in these packages that went out to Stryker today.
Mailed November 17, 2007, to Stryker at FOB Warhorse at Baqubah, Iraq, 6 boxes
Box 1, value $108.00, postage $8.95
144 sample tubes of Crest toothpaste donated by my dentist
Box 2, value $47.11, postage $8.95
39 magazines:
14 Sports Illustrated (July 07- November 19, 2007)
12 Weekly Standard (May 21 – November 12, 2007)
5 Readers Digest (August – December, 2007)
3 1st Freedom (August, October, November, 2007)
4 Decision (July, October, November and special edition, 2007)
13 magazines/newsletters:
7 Washington Times weekly (June 25 – September 10, 2007)
4 Imprimis (June, August, September, October 2007)
2 Franklin Graham (October, September 2007)
2 Sunday Comic sections
Misc Stationery:
40 sheets ruled stationery paper
7 envelops
4 freebie Christmas cards
4 large packets of Wild Berry Skittles (2.17 oz)
25 packets of chicken flavoring
Box 3, value $15.98, postage $8.95
5 bags Halloween candy:
Snickers 43 funsize bars
Corn candy 22 oz
M&M peanut ~36 packets
Reese’s peanut butter cups 15
Pirates Gummy Skulls ~55
Individual Gummy skulls 7
Box 4, value $53.69, postage $8.95
6 DVD movies:
Air Force One (Harrison Ford)
Deep Impact (Tea Leoni, Morgan Freeman, Robert Duvall, Elijah Wood)
Galaxy Quest (Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Tony Shalhoub)
S.W.A.T.
Terminator 2, Judgment Day (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
Tuxedo (Jackie Chan)
1 Book: Hinge of Fate (book 4 of WWII series by Winston Churchill)
1 large 7 oz Hershey’s kiss in silver box
15 large packets Wild Berry Skittles (2.17 oz)
13 large packets Whoppers (1.75 oz)
Box 5, value $20.56, postage $8.95
4 bags Halloween candy:
Snickers 43 funsize
Corn candy 22 oz
M&M peanuts ~36
Hershey’s nugget minis 30.5 oz (~80 dark and milk chocolate with and without almonds/toffee)
10 individual large packets Whoppers (1.75 oz)
Box 6, value $18.72, postage $8.95
4 bags Halloween candy:
Snickers 43 funsize bars
Indian corn candy 11 oz
Oreo Cookies minis ~18 funsize
M&M plain ~ 18 funsize
52 individual wrapped candy:
29 Tootsie pops
15 Hershey’s nugget minis
8 large packets wild berry Skittles (2.17 oz)