Small glimpse of life from one of our soldier contacts

Below are some notes that just came in from one of our care package recipients serving overseas:

The people here are taking everything with a grain of salt, but it's hard to go from hot showers and port a potties to cold showers if they have water, (baby wipes if they don't), and toilets that you are not allowed to flush any paper or wipes in.  Their MWR here consists solely of internet and phones, but I have a feeling it won't be long before they have books, games, and other things to do for free time as they are bringing in more people from another FOB.  It is improving though, they are working on these things and more ...

I just want to say thank you again for all of your support, it really makes a huge difference over here.  Especially when soldiers are at locations like this one, mail call is a huge morale booster!

... they could really use whatever you can send here.  They mostly have 220 power here, but a lot of people have transformers with them so they can plug in their 110 items.  They do also have coffee pots, some have minifridges, and a few have microwaves.  I can't say for 100% if I'm right on this, but I believe COP stands for Command Outpost.  That usually means it's not as nice as a FOB (Forward operating base).

But they really could use anything, games, dvds, baby wipes, laundry soap (right now we do our own laundry, but we are supposed to get a service here I just don't know when), books, magazines, I'm sure anything would be well appreciated including the golf clubs and balls if you still have them.

Oh yeah, there are roughly 800 personnel here of which there are about 25 females.  Everybody has a bed as far as I know and there is not a PX here, although they do have a couple of stores run by local nationals that sell most of the necessities for personal hygiene.  Thank you again for your continued support, it is very much appreciated!

Sincerely,
Jerry

Certificate of Appreciation from Afghanistan

Airborne Angel Cadets of Texas just received this wonderful Certificate of Appreciation from Kabul, Afghanistan.

New photo and email from Jason

Here's a photo and note from Jason who received some of our recent care packages.

Nancy
OMG ... You all are sooooo AWESOME.. Since mail was screwed up for soooo long I got the last two boxes today.. Our fire department guys and our cops and I REALLY REALLY appreciate all you have done already.. I can't believe you sent more.. How can we ever repay you?? I wish we had something here to buy or something we could get for you .. But I WILL figure something out
before I get out of here.

Again..I can't believe you sent more..Our guys REALLY REALLY appreciate it .. For real .. I know I said it already but THANK YOU..THANK YOU... THANK YOU for everything..

Jason

Soldiers flying our American flag on helicopter in Afghanistan

Here's a new video from Princeton flying an American flag over Afghanistan for the Airborne Angel Cadets of Texas on one of his many helicopter missions.