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How to send a Care Package (vanity)
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Posted on 06/17/2002 10:59:25 AM PDT by Britton J Wingfield
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Any additions to the list?
To: Snow Bunny; *USO Canteen
PING
To: Britton J Wingfield
Just that if the game you send takes batteries then send lots of batteries with it.
To: Britton J Wingfield
Ummm - Any kind of magazine with naked female units in it?
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posted on
06/17/2002 11:04:24 AM PDT
by
2banana
To: Britton J Wingfield
"Any additions to the list?" Sure. For soldiers deployed in a desert, throw in a whole slew of doggie flea collars. They work well during Desert Storm at keeping sand fleas off when worn around the ankles.
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
Ping!
To: Britton J Wingfield
Phone cards are a nice gift as well. They save having to reverse the charges on those calls from BFE.
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posted on
06/17/2002 11:07:19 AM PDT
by
strela
To: Britton J Wingfield
AA and AAA batteries.
/john
To: Britton J Wingfield
Oh, and if you've got more than a couple of nickels to rub together, sending one of those personal DVD players and a few recent movies will make you a new best friend.
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posted on
06/17/2002 11:11:14 AM PDT
by
strela
To: Britton J Wingfield
Kool-aid, unsweetened usually. It will make the water bearable.
a.cricket
To: Britton J Wingfield
Assuming they allow anonymous CARE packages this year: they didn't allow them last Christmas. . . which was a bummer: I've been sending them since DESERT STORM. . .
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posted on
06/17/2002 11:15:49 AM PDT
by
Salgak
To: Britton J Wingfield
For packages to the troops... DO NOT SEND HOMEMADE FOOD!!! It will all be destroyed.
The troops have asked us for
Hard candy, hot sauce ,playing cards, video tapes, CDs, lotion, soap, shampoo, chapstick, pens, paper, batteries, toothpaste, toothbrushes, deoderant, Kool-Aid, socks, underwear, hats and gloves in the winter, books, magazines, and games that they can play onboard.
We just recently sent over 100s of foam ' Splat Balls'. You soak them in water and throw them at each other. They are like everlasting waterballoons. The troops on the USS Kennedy loved them.
To: Mrs.Liberty
Thanks for the ping.
To: Snowtrill
You need to see this.
/john
To: Britton J Wingfield;AFVetGal;68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub;getgoing
Hi Britton, great idea for a thread. Thank you for doing this. I am going to bookmark it.
We sent videos of action movies,and comedies.Paperbacks, magzines for motorcyclists, back road stuff we thought others might like. Lotion has been a biggie too.
You listed many of the things we send.
We sent small mirrors with plastic backs less breakable.Bags of licorice.Instant cappuccino packages they just have to add hot water.
Also we asked some local Sunday school classes of young children to color pictures for the troops and letters if they knew how write. We put an intro letter with them in the packages.
Thanks again so much for the thread.
To: Britton J Wingfield;Snow Bunny
I'll be adding a link to this thread here
To: Britton J Wingfield
During my second deployment to the Mediterranean Sea in a submarine, my (then still new) wife, sent me a care package containing some winter clothes, a new razor, a 12 pack of Pepsi and a very large tin of flavored popcorn. We received the mail during a small boat transfer from a Frigate in the middle of the Adriatic Sea. The box was too big to get through the hatch, we had to open it and send the contents down into the submarine individually. Great fun.
To: Britton J Wingfield;Snow Bunny; FallGuy; JohnHuang2; Mama_Bear; Victoria Delsoul; daisyscarlett...
Active duty FReeper Britton J Wingfield posted this thread
to answer questions on what items to send to our military.
Some snail mail addresses for active duty military are located here:
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
bump!
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
Actually, I'm a reservist now.
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