Thank You For Your Service!

This message recently went out on some of the Foreign Service boards:

My husband is a Marine Corps reservist who just finished Command and Staff College at Quantico. One of his teachers sent the following email around, from a colleague in Afghanistan:

Marines in need of contact and support. These Marines are deployed in AFGH with no next of Kin or family/friends corresponding with them or able to afford packages.

Send by priority mail flat rate boxes you can obtain at Post Office or on-line. You also need to attach a customs form. Special rates for military  packages are around $12.00 large box. On customs form just list magazines, food, estimate value at $12.00, otherwise if list valuable contents they will be stolen, Boot socks (Merino) are needed as they go through a few pair a week on patrol, baby wipes, jerky, cigarettes, dip, chew, candy (It reaches 120-130 degrees in summer so some will melt, This is also the sandstorm season for 120 days in South so face masks, scarfs are used. magazines, books, underwear, bug spray, sunscreen,. Winter in goes down to near 0 so gloves, hats, socks, hand warmers etc. All packages are X-rayed.

Among all the other ways they serve, marines staff the Post One at most Embassies and Consulates - they keep us and the work we do safe.   So of course we have a special place in our hearts for them.  When this email went out, my Vibrant colleagues organized some care packages for the folks who are out there serving their country.

My kids made some pictures to go in the packages

 In case you don't have fluency reading level in 1st grade writing it reads:

Thank you for all the srvs (service) you give us!!!!!!!!!

And

If you'd like to put together your own care packages to send - just click here.