OPERATION AC needs $40k in donations - $79 will buy a GI an AC unit (Check out Saddam pic!)

A non-profit Delaware company operating on donations only, sends 110v single phase ice machines to our troops in Iraq as well as various basic items the soldiers request and desperately need.

"It is my hope that we make their existence in Iraq during their deployment as safe and as easy on them as possible given the job they are there to do. Rested Soldiers are more alert and able to perform their duty SAFELY!"

YOU CAN STILL CALL THE GLASGOW HOME DEPOT TO BUY ACs TO DONATE TO THE MISSISSIPPI NATIONAL GUARD UNIT 278TH ACR (ABOUT 4,200 SOLDIERS)! MY GOAL IS TO SEND 200 OF THEM BY TRUCK TO CAMP SHELBY IN MISSISSIPPI.

Please call 302-838-6818 and tell the Home Depot operator that you are calling for Operation AC. The Ice Machines are $199.00

WE ARE NOW SENDING PORTABLE ICE MACHINES AS OF 15 JUNE 2004. THIS IS THE MOST URGENT NEED ALONG WITH THE BOOTS.

You can use your credit card safely and the ICE MACHINES are already there and there is NO SHIPPING CHARGE to you! It is also easier for us because we don't have to take delivery at our storage location of ice machines that are shipped.

We do not accept used items. We buy new ice machines(all the exact same model) and we ship these units directly to the soldiers in Iraq for Afghanistan. These units are 110 single phase and if the soldier is on local power (220) we send a transformer which is used so that the Ice Machine unit is able to be run on the 220 power.

If you have a soldier in Iraq or Afghanistan, please sign them up on our webforms.

It is beginning to heat up in Iraq and the soldiers are emailing us asking for help to cool down.

We are sending boots with much thicker soles than the boots the military provides for our troops. The boots that are sent are the very best desert boots and they come from Altama Footwear, a supplier to the US Military and DoD vendor. We pay $61.95 for each pair and they retail for soldiers at $99.95 per pair. I buy them several hundred at at time. Please do not contact Altama to buy boots for your soldier. We have to buy them and ship them for right now, but I am working out with Altama that you can go to their site and buy your adopted soldier a pair of boots and they will ship the boots to the APO address you were given by us. You just go to www.altama.com and click on the Altama Desert Ripple Sole Boot and choose your soldier's boot size and fill in the shipping form. I do not have our special pricing on this yet, so you will have to pay the retail price until I can get this worked out with Altama. If you want to send us the money for your soldier, send a check and the soldier's name in the mail to us and mark the envelope: "Operation AC Boots for my Soldier" and Peggy will get them ordered. Hopefully we will work this issue out with Altama Footwear's website shortly.

The ice machines we will be sending are: Part number PIM15W the SKU is 246-956 and the cost is $199.00

	SHIPPING UPDATE
	The 74 ACs we sent landed in Iraq on 30 April 2004. The picture below is a soldier in front of the truck where the 20 ACs were received for the 67th Combat Support Hospital in Tikrit. We sent 175 of those to soldiers whos names were given when you bought their ACs. All of the ACs with soldier's names on them went to Iraq via DHL and will be delivered to your soldier or marine soon. This is the last shipment that we can send to a specific soldier. We now send to the entire unit, so please sign up your soldier and tell them to let their chain of command know about Operation Air Conditioner! We get the word out there, but nothing like the word coming upward from the chain of command. NCOs can really get things done! I also have 175 ACs for a general donation for the US Marines in Iraq. They arrived at Al Asad Air Base and were received on July 4, 2004. I got an email confirmation from the Gunny Sergeant that they were delivered just fine. We are raising money to buy the transformers for each of th ACs for the troops who need the step-down transformers (product is THD-1000D). They are $35.00 each. We have to buy them in bulk from a vendor. I am trying to find a way to have them purchased through the Delaware Home Depot. I've made contact with Army and Marine units in Afghanistan who would like to benefit from Operation Air Conditioner so I am asking for your help in raising money for the shipping costs. During the 2 weeks after I was on with Tom Sullivan on the Rush Limbaugh radio program, we sent out 2,600 air conditioners bringing our total sent out to 5,609. We have all of the Ice Machines for the K9 unit! Thank you so much for your support for them! I'm waiting on pictures from them when they get their ice machines operational so that we can see some really cool dogs and their MP soldier handlers! I've got a pallet (100 cases) of powdered Gatoraide leaving for a unit in Baghdad next Monday, July 12th. We have 400 more Air Conditioners leaving for the US Marines the week of the 12th. We have ice machines going to the Combat Support Hospitals, we have 220 converters going to our K9 units in Iraq. We will continue to send bulk ACs to Iraq by Air Freight in the coming weeks. We have a big boot order coming in so that we can have volunteers label and help package the boots up on July 25th at Mike's Famous Harley Davidson Dealership in New Castle, Delaware. Those boots will go out in the mail on Monday, July 26th. *Thanks to you, we are going strong and please keep supporting our troops! They need us!*

What the hell do we pay taxes for?

Yup, the government should definitely make better use of our taxes. Stop funding repugnant "art." Stop sending money to Arafat and his merry band of killers. Stop a lot of stuff and help our military men and women. The thought of our military personnel not being able to get BOOTS is staggering and infuriating.

But, you know what? First, the changes aren't gonna happen. Our elected leaders and the countless bureaucrats are gonna keep right on doing what they're doing. And even if these things should happen to change, it'll take years. The people pounding the sand need boots now. Sometimes you say "to hell with the politics of it" and do what needs to be done.

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