Another thing they seem to be doing is giving 1 year tours. My Nephew-in-law has been spending 6 months a year in that part of the world since the 1st Gulf war. He did a full year at the beginning of the Iraq war and then a 9 month tour and then it has gone back to 6 months, mostly in Afghanistan. Now all of a sudden it is going to be a year.
Then there is the young man who is a Black Hawk pilot, they have sent them over there for a year tour and he is in some remote place in Afghanistan doing manual labor. They have few supplies and they get few packages. It took 3 months for the first package to get to him. He does have internet and talks to his wife everyday but they lack the basics when it comes to personal care and there is no where to purchase them, the women don’t even have adequate personal supplies, if you know what I mean, we sent them some.
He says that when they do receive packages they keep only what they really need and then they have started a kind of a co-op where others can get what they need.
Your message is the reason that this makes me so angry. Anyone that wants to deny whatever amenities we can offer our soldiers is to me the enemy. Thank you for what you are doing!