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I need some culinary shopping help.I am sponsoring a member of our military through www.AdoptaPlatoon.com. When you sponsor a service member, you commit to write to them weekly, and send a "care package" every month. (My guy is in Baghdad and has a laptop PC with Internet access, so we get to exchange emails several times a week!)Any, I have recently learned that he yearns for "Fish Steaks in Louisiana Hot Sauce" and I am trying to surpise him for his upcoming birthday with a shipment of them.The problem is that I cannot find anyone that carries this item, even...

One of the best parts of being a soldier is meeting new people all the time. Every 3-5 years we get to move someplace else and meet more people. Every now and then, we get to start a blog and meet all kinds of new people. Unfortunately, we only know them by name, screen ID, or email address. Sometimes, we get to actually meet these wonderful people. At the Milblog conference this year, I got to meet some of my readers as well as other fellow bloggers. Everyone was taller than I imagined, but that's a product of being short,...