Emails from soldiers

Well, I guess our Girl Scout cookies that we sent last week are starting to reach our soldiers as we have gotten several emails already. Here are a few of them.

Nancy,

I have received your box of Girl Scout cookies and other stuff here in the Middle East. I work in a facilities maintenance and construction section with several different types of engineers. I distributed the cookies throughout the section. The guys LOVE those cookies. Anyhow, I wish I had a camera to show you all these grown men operating heavy equipment while snacking on Girl Scout cookies and
throwing the water balloons at each other. I am sure the cookies will be empty very soon.

I just wanted to take the time to tell you how much we (Directorate of Public Works) appreciate your contribution. It is a real breath of fresh air to receive stuff like this from caring Americans in support of the troops. We thank you for all of your thoughts and prayers and will continue to try our best to make everyone at home proud to be an American.

Respectfully,
SGT Michael H.

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Good Afternoon ladies and Gents,

Thank you all for the warm thoughts and yummy cookies. It was Awsome getting your package today. We all enjoyed them. Thank you Again, you all are amazing!

Thank you from all of Us over here in Iraq

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I just wanted to say thank you for the huge box of girl scout cookies we received and the calling cards. We solicited our junior folks to see who was most deserving and we found five of our young guys and gave the cards to them. They were overwhelmed when those were given to them and we ensure your names were used for the people that provided them for us. I was also in Afghanistan a few months ago and received some cards from you then as well.. Really appreciate all the help you are providing for us over here.
It is an awesome feeling when you get supported by fellow Americans that truly are behind what we are doing over here. This is a job like any other but the amount of hours we put in on a daily basis and the amount of time we spend from home each year, it is extremely humbling to get something like these packages from you all. Appreciate your time and effort in getting these to us. I plan on going online to your website upon our return and contributing as well, as I did when I returned from Afghanistan, I didn't contribute to all the charities but as many as I could at the time. I will definitely ensure you all are on the next list I have when I contribute. If you could keep us informed of the fund raising drives you have I will be sure to get the information out among those I come into contact with. God
Bless and again, thank you for your generosity, time, good words, and a taste of home.

Sincerely
Mark H.
Onboard USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

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Keep checking back with us. I will post more as they come.

Certificate from pilots in Afghanistan

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Cookies, Cookies, Cookies

WOW!! It has been a wild week with packing and mailing nearly 14,000 boxes of Girl Scout cookies to over 430 platoons throughout Iraq and Afghanistan. We packed all day Saturday packing larger boxes with an assortment of cookies, coffee, CD's, decks of playing cards, water balloons, American flag, phone cards and letters. Hopefully this little taste of home will help ease the difficulty of being away from home for our Heros and let them know they are not forgotten.
Now comes the task of raising the funds to send the remaining 6,000 boxes of cookies that remain in the warehouse waiting to be shipped. Please help us bless these soldiers.

2009 Girl Scout Cookies have arrived!

On March 6, the Girl Scouts generously donated 20,820 boxes of cookies to the Airborne Angel Cadets of Texas.

Local Army soldiers, Airborne Angel Cadets of Texas members and employees of Watt / Spohn-Universal worked hard to load and unload a 24-foot truck full of Girl Scout cookies into warehouse space that was generously donated by Watt / Spohn-Universal.

In the coming weeks, we will try to get these mailed out to 400 - 500 platoons in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Popcorn, coffee and flags are needed right now to be shipped together with the Girl Scout cookies. We should have enough CD's, playing cards and phone cards, which will also be added to these shipments.

The main packing party in March is scheduled for March 21 in Addison.

Mailing costs will be expensive - probably approaching $20,000 for these Girl Scout cookie shipments. So any help with this would also be greatly appreciated.

TV News Feature on Airborne Angel Cadets

The local Dallas-Ft. Worth NBC TV station filmed a special segment on our recent packing party and aired this news clip on 3/1/09. The short news clip gives an idea of how hard our volunteers work to package and mail the care packages to our overseas soldiers.