Adopting Soldiers/Marines?

**Ak44** · 05-01-10, 22:13

Anyone here sign up for these programs? For those who don't know what it is...You sign up on one of the various websites and you send package goods to Service Members Overseas. Just curious if anyone else does this? It was a big morale booster when I was deployed getting packages from strangers who kept me in their thoughts.

**DaBears_85** · 05-01-10, 22:22

When I was in junior high my entire class got involved in sending care packages and letters to troops during desert storm. A couple of them came into the school after returning home and spoke about their experiences and such during an assembly. They said they really appreciated everything we did for them.

**Ak44** · 05-01-10, 22:32

That's cool, my platoon got a few envelopes from a elementary school class. Very interesting responses to say the least from these young ones talking about killing bad guys and stuff haha.

Since I'm out now and still have buddies who re-upped and are back overseas got me thinking about this stuff.

**DaBears_85** · 05-01-10, 22:39

Yeah it's always nice to know people care and are thinking about you back home. Where were you deployed?

**Ak44** · 05-01-10, 22:52

Habbaniyah, down the road from Fallujah and Blackwater Bridge, Jul 2007-Feb 2008.

**DaBears_85** · 05-01-10, 23:04

Marines?

My unit just returned from Afghanistan in Sept. Army 2/130th Inf. which deployed as part of the 33 IBCT. We're getting deployed again in 2012. Rumor has it that it's going to be to Africa. Either a peace keeping mission with the UN in Egypt or to Somalia. I hope it's Egypt, I highly doubt we're going to Somalia. Who knows... If Afghanistan keeps going the way it's going now we'll probably just end up back there.

**Avandir** · 05-02-10, 09:48

There's also the Soldiers Angels. I'm sure you can google it for more info. I get a letter from these people atleast once a week. I haven't gotten around to writing any of them back but it's nice to get something every now and then.

**theblackknight** · 05-02-10, 13:54

id send supplements and hand lotion.

**C-grunt** · 05-03-10, 05:56

I got adopted by one of these groups during my 2005 deployment. Only problem was that they thought I was a girl. I guess the name Chase can be either sex. But you would have thought that 1 girl in a infantry unit with over 400 men would have made someone think. LOL.

But everything they sent besides the girly stuff and tampons was really awesome.