Posted on Mar 2, 2015
What is the funniest / strangest thing you ever received in a care package in OIF/OEF?
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Just curious to what stands out the most, trying to get away from some of the more serious topics that have been trending.
Sometimes we get stuff from well intentioned (but poorly thought out) civilians...that makes us just laugh, or just say "why?".
For me, it was 168 twinkies....don't know where they came from or why....but they were tasty with our morning coffee.
Sometimes we get stuff from well intentioned (but poorly thought out) civilians...that makes us just laugh, or just say "why?".
For me, it was 168 twinkies....don't know where they came from or why....but they were tasty with our morning coffee.
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I got a blow up doll that was a goat for some random reason and we have it to out Terp and he laughed and pretty sure he used it
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My squad leader got an inflatable sheep, with a package of cotton balls to make it more "realistic"
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A Cashmere sweater...and pink of all colors... with a care package containing milk chocolate pieces that had long since melted in the ziplock bag they were in.
I gave it to a local national girl in a little town near Tikrit
I gave it to a local national girl in a little town near Tikrit
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nothing too strange, but the small PX here sells Pampers training pants for toddlers Tell me that aint strange?
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I really did not have anything strange but my buddies were opening a care package from home and when they pulled the magazines out they did not take off the name of who purchased them and it was me. They were my sporting magazines that I was getting from home and my friends mom gave them to the unit to send to the troops. I was WTF though are my magazines. I was laughing about it.
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Whelp....that was a downer.....hence why I was more specific about the time period since we know those tree hugging hippies didn't care about our brothers and sisters during that time frame. I'm very sorry to hear that CPL....your generation deserved much better.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
Cpl Doug Beckett Got to remember that we weren't all too popular back then. Even family disappointed in us.
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On my husband's first deployment, I sent him "malaria"
http://www.giantmicrobes.com/us/products/malaria.html
http://www.giantmicrobes.com/us/products/malaria.html
Malaria (Plasmodium falciparum)
The tropics have coconuts, soft beaches, clear water, shiny fish, colorful birds, steel drums, umbrella drinks. And Malaria.
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