Website for Care Packages to our Adopted Soldiers

[RamboLiberal]

I'm afraid in the hoopla this will disappear from the other forum, moderators please allow a little latitude here. I latched on to it from an email. This is the 173rd Airborne where many of us got names of troops from SoCalDem and have been sending packages.

Want to send a care package to Any Soldier in Iraq,
but have no idea of what to send, who to send it to, or how to send it?

Featured on ARD German TV (Video here) and FOX News.
Sergeant Brian Horn from LaPlata, Maryland, is an Army Infantry Soldier with the 173rd Airborne Brigade in the Kirkuk area of Iraq who has a reputation for taking care of his soldiers. He has agreed to distribute the contents of any packages that come to him addressed "Attn: Any Soldier" to the soldiers who are not getting mail. This works! Your packages get to real soldiers that need and appreciate your support!
Please note that now we have more soldiers helping with this. We ask that if you send packages and letters that you spread them across the addresses we have below. Soon there will be more, but they are all in Brian's unit, the Sky Soldiers of the 173rd.

You may have seen the pictures of soldiers swimming in palace pools, relaxing in fancy chairs in a gold covered room, even sleeping in the beds of the tyrants. Looks pretty good. Now you know where the reporters hang out. However, the conditions our soldiers in the 173rd are under are a bit different. They are fed ONE 'hot' meal (from merimite cans) and two MREs a day, but 267 days of MREs is far too much for anybody. The soldiers for the most part don't eat the MREs anymore but buy food on the local economy or eat what you send them. Their living conditions have improved recently, they are often in a building and sleep on cots. Electricity is somewhat available, often going out, but better than nothing. This changes some of the abilities to cook food and use things like rechargeable batteries, etc. They do often go on 'mission', raids that will cause them to be away from any support.
They refer to themselves as "RPG magnets".
THE WAR IS NOT OVER FOR THEM.

http://www.anysoldier.us/

[Timefortruth]

1. They must have gotten word that the Democrats were sending

them help and decided to show us up. The sorry part is that there are other divisions where they could have done it that they could have included.

[Timefortruth]

2. What other forum is this in? I missed it.nt

[RamboLiberal]

4. I got the email from Governor Dean

that listed the website - classy move I say.

[SoCalDem]

3. We currently have about 17 soldiers adopted by DUers..

I have the list , in case anyone wants to send stuff..

Any DUer who knows a soldier there can add their soldier and his/her friends to the list.:)

We have been sending them stuff since August :)

We have also sent out boxes to Iraqi families in Sadr City (via my friend in the CPA)..

PM me or post on this thread if you are new and have not heard of this, but would like to participate :)

[K8-EEE]

5. Also, booksforsoldiers.com

I have sent a lot of stuff to Books For Soldiers, the soldiers can request a book or DVD and post it there. I've got a penpal now who is living in the Baghdad jail, well, it's remodeled now for his unit.

Interestingly, lots of the guys request Michael Moore, I sent an email to Michael from his site asking for him to donate some of his stuff and he got right back to me and said he would do it!

[incapsulated]

6. Thanks for this link!

http://www.booksforsoldiers.com

[incapsulated]

7. Good deal, keep it kicked! n/t