Now that the 9/11 is passing, our next "organized" packages for the troops will be candy for Hallowe'en. You can buy the sales now, but don't mail till October 15, so the chocolate won't melt.
Anyone can send "unorganized" packages to them in the meantime. The Stryker companies are requesting drink mix powder to flavor their water. Bagram, Afghanistan is requesting snacks for the soldiers at the fire bases, including cups of soup, and movies. I'll post the movies we've sent there this last year in the next post.
Mailed September 11, 2006, to A company of Stryker at Baghdad, 2 boxes
Box 1, insured $78.91, postage $10.40 paid by my optometrist
1 Boxed set TV series: Lost, season 2
36 individual packs 15 Wet Ones (donated by my optometrist)
1 card with sentiment of appreciation for service
Box 2, value $38.00, postage $8.10 paid for by my optometrist
38 individual packs 15 Wet Ones (donated by my optometrist)
Mailed September 11, 2006, to HHC of Stryker at Baghdad
1 box, value $56.08, postage $8.10 paid for by my optometrist
34 indiv packs 15 Wet Ones
3 magazines:
Economist
Stuff
FHM
1 book: Enders Game (Orson Scott Card)
Mailed September 11, 2006, to Camp Ramadi
1 box, insured $69.90, postage $10.40 paid for by my optometrist
1 boxed set TV series: Lost, season 2
1 box 24 Payday candy bars (2 lb 12.4 oz total)
1 box 15 oz Chips Ahoy cookies, soft baked chunky
1 pack 16 oz strawberry Twislers
4 TicTacs
5 indiv packs Wet Ones (donated by my optometrist)
3 travel Kleenex packs
1 Floss mint waxed 55 yds
1 can Mandarin oranges
2 packs 12 Trident white chicklets
1 card with sentiment of appreciation for service to country
Mailed September 11, 2006, to Bagram, Afghanistan,
1 box, insured $69.22, postage $10.40 paid by my optometrist
3 DVD movies/standup comedy routines
They call me Tater Salad (Ron White)*
Blue Collar Comedy Tour, One for the Road*
Cat Ballou (Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin)*
7 cans of Mandarin oranges
2 jars 18 oz Skippy extra chunky peanut butter
2 mint waxed floss 55 yards
8 individual packs 15 Wet Ones (donated by my optometrist)
5 packs 12 Trident white chicklets
2 magazines, 1 newsletter
People magazine, Steve Irwin cover
Weekly Standard Human Rights
Billy Graham letter
1 birthday card for a soldier
*donated by SwatTeam
MASTERLIST for Bagram since new psyops unit arrived
DVDs sent in the last few months:
3 boxed sets TV series:
Scrubs, Season 1
Scrubs, Season 2
Scrubs, Season 3
2 DVD movies:
DC 9/11 Time of Crisis (Timothy Bottoms, Penny Johnson)
Flight 93 (A&E/Fox movie for television)
They call me Tater Salad (Ron White)*
Blue Collar Comedy Tour, One for the Road*
Cat Ballou (Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin)*
The Cisco Kid, 10 episodes (Duncan Renaldo, Leo Carrillo)
Baa Baa Black Sheep, volume 1, 12 episodes (Robert Conrad, John Larroquette)
Tombstone (Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer)
Dodgeball (Vince Vaughn)
Pushing Tin with John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton**
12 Monkeys with Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt **
The Patriot with Mel Gibson **
Lockup with Stallone**
Out To Sea with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau **
Q&A with Armand Assante and Nick Nolte**
Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid **
Striking Distance with Bruce Willis and Sarah Jessica Parker**
*sent by SwatTeam
**sent by daybreakcoming
Sent to previous psyops unit for Christmas last year:
Star Wars III, Revenge of the Sith
Batman Begins (Michael Caine, Liam Neeson)
S.W.A.T. (Colin Ferrel, Samuel L. Jackson)
The Mummy (Brendan Fraser)
The Fast and the Furious (vin Diesel)
Elf (Bob Newhart, Will Ferrell)
The Warriors (original DVD issue)
Sin City (comic book recreation, several stories, one with Bruce Willis)
Its a Wonderful Life*
Christmas Vacation*
*sent by Nina0113
Sent for Halloween, 2005
The Others (Nicole Kiddman)a ghost story
Kiss the Girls (Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd)a horror thriller
Sons of Katie Elder (John Wayne, Dean Martin)
Tombstone (Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott)
The Cowboys (John Wayne)
The Man from Snowy River (Tom Burlinson)