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To: AlaskaErik

Most homemade cookies arrive moldy, so the DoD has asked us not to send them. Especially after 9/11 there was also concern that items from strangers might deliberately be contaminated and not just a source of accidental food poisoning.

Thus our group can only send commercially wrapped food items with an outdate on the package.

I’ll be posting the Restrictions list again on this thread, along with mailing tips later tonight.

Meanwhile, we would enjoy hearing a bit about your service if you would oblige us?


13 posted on 03/30/2008 3:41:48 PM PDT by patriciaruth (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1562436/posts)
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To: patriciaruth
Meanwhile, we would enjoy hearing a bit about your service if you would oblige us?

Not much to tell. One of millions who went into theater and did his duty. I was with the 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan. I flew on 77 combat missions all over Afghanistan as a C-130 loadmaster. Some of my more memorable flights...air dropping ammo while a firefight was raging on below us, flying some of the Gitmo detainees back to their country, flying a Canadian soldier from Kandahar to Bagram for airlift to Landstuhl after he was hit by friendly fire from one of our A-10s and flying Hamid Karzai to one of the villages in the northeast part of the country.

14 posted on 03/30/2008 11:07:19 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Democrats spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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