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1 Magazine : Men’s health
1 Large package beef jerky
5 Packages indiv. crystal light, and ice tea.
1 bag Tostios
1 pkg. onion dip
4 Tuna snacks with crackers
1 box peanuts
1 bag assorted hard candy
1 small M&M’s
Mailed today.
:-D
Our new NPTT contact is now at FOB Falcon near Baghdad, and I’ll post some email excerpts below.
Anyone who can volunteer to send them enough lemonade mix and cans of potato chips or chocolate chip cookies for 14-15 men for the Fourth of July by Saturday, June 21, please let me know.
Care packages of the same for Bagram air field in Afghanistan are also needed. I am packing up now many bags of trail mix (thanks to donation from jtill) to send them, as well as the HBO DVD miniseries “John Adams” based on the book by David McCullough for their Fourth of July present. An excellent series covering the winning and keeping of our Independence!
We have not been able to establish a new contact with a Stryker unit, and our former adopted unit has left for home and is hopefully safely there now. I will write a letter to the “commander” of the new Stryker unit (I only have the unit name and APO, no name) and see if I can get another Stryker contact. Our last adopted unit saw a great deal of action in southern Baghdad and Ba’qubah, had 7 KIA in their battalion last year, and had great responsibilities during the turnover to the new unit.
Mailed June 16, 2008, to NPTT at FOB Falcon, with help of donations from jtill and manna.
1 box, insured $197.02 (value $212.02), postage $13.55
14 DVD movies:
Independence Day (Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman)
National Treasure (Nicolas Cage)
Die Hard trilogy (Bruce Willis)
Airforce One/In the Line of Fire (Harrison Ford) (Clint Eastwood)
Alien/Predator (Sigorney Weaver) (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jesse Ventura)
Gettysburg/Gods and Generals (Jeff Daniels, Martin Sheen, Tom Berenger)
Open Range (Kevin Costner, Robert Duvall, Annette Bening)
The Jackal (Bruce Willis, Richard Gere)
Robocop (Peter Weller, Nancy Allen)
4 Books:
The Great Raid on Cabanatuan *
Winston Churchill, The Last Lion: Visions of Glory 1874-1932 (William Manchester)
The Gods Themselves (Issac Asimov)
Red Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)
Personal Care:
9 travel size Gold Bond body powder
16 Lip Balm SPF 30
11 travel size Artificial Tears
8 cartons 4 window clear Fly Trap paper (nontoxic)
Decorations:
1 small American flag
1 American flag pinwheel
3 short sprays of red, silver, blue stars
*From SwatTeam, valued by Amazon at $24.09
THANKS to fanfan for sending care packages to the defenders of Kandahar!! (see post above)