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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MAJ (Join to see)
seems to happen a lot, had to go into ass bleeding detail to explain to my folks and my Soldier's folks back home not to send chocolate, as it sits on the tarmac in the desert sun for hours before it is even looked at for "possible" movement forward
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We had a guy in my platoon while deployed to Bosnia in '96-'97 get cookies and KY jelly...same box, no other items. Don't ask, I have no idea O.o
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well.....completely makes sense to me....but the filter must come on for my current thoughts in order to remain officer-ish.
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CSM Charles Hayden
KY Jelly is great as a lubricant for nasal dryness. (per an ENT md), One son says it helps his nose cope with the tobacco smoke in Las Vegas. I plan to add some in my next care package. Basic load item, just like Visene for the eyes.
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Sir, on one of my Iraq tours I got a random care package that had two five pound weights and a bottle opener with a card that just had the word thanks!
Got a giggle out of it and used the weights to hold down my miniature Xmas tree.
Got a giggle out of it and used the weights to hold down my miniature Xmas tree.
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I had a Soldier in my Platoon receive a bottle of Ranch salad dressing in a care package. I'm not sure what the rationale behind that was. Chances are if we didn't have salad dressing we didn't have anything to put the dressing on. I can't see too many people using ranch dressing with MREs.
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MAJ (Join to see)
Have you tried putting it on MREs? Just like Bacon, everything is better with Ranch.
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My mom sent me my own baby photos during BCT she knew it would get me smoked
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Had a nurse during the First Gulf War, whose husband had sent her a 14" vibrator, but somewhere along the line, it got turned on in the box. And when the company clerk was doing mail-call, he kept cracking up, especially when the Hospital commander kept encouraging her to open it up in front of the whole unit.
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It’s a tossup between three separate care packages.
Package 1. Cook Books. Somehow my 90 year old grandmother got it in her head I wanted books to read. She started a local support drive with what seemed like every Church in South Georgia. I was getting two or three big boxes of books a day until I could get her to waive off and stop them from coming. It was over a half mile by foot to the post office and then I would have to hump the boxes back to the Command area to open them. Boxes of books aren't light. Before it was done, I believe we had the best base library in Iraq.
One of them was full of nothing but cook books. To this day, I have no idea why someone would donate cook books to forward deployed personnel.
Package 2. This one contained an anatomically correct inflatable sheep (don’t ask). That sheep hung around in our spaces for months before magically disappearing one night. That started a huge row about someone keeping the sheep all to themselves. Not pointing fingers, but Master Guns (you know who you are) is still my prime suspect.
Package 3. A life-size cardboard image of President Bush. I am one of the few people who can claim to have conducted combat patrols with President Bush at my side.
Package 1. Cook Books. Somehow my 90 year old grandmother got it in her head I wanted books to read. She started a local support drive with what seemed like every Church in South Georgia. I was getting two or three big boxes of books a day until I could get her to waive off and stop them from coming. It was over a half mile by foot to the post office and then I would have to hump the boxes back to the Command area to open them. Boxes of books aren't light. Before it was done, I believe we had the best base library in Iraq.
One of them was full of nothing but cook books. To this day, I have no idea why someone would donate cook books to forward deployed personnel.
Package 2. This one contained an anatomically correct inflatable sheep (don’t ask). That sheep hung around in our spaces for months before magically disappearing one night. That started a huge row about someone keeping the sheep all to themselves. Not pointing fingers, but Master Guns (you know who you are) is still my prime suspect.
Package 3. A life-size cardboard image of President Bush. I am one of the few people who can claim to have conducted combat patrols with President Bush at my side.
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This one is off the record....
I have a family member who heard that Iraq was a dry country, they assumed that I couldn't buy it, but somehow it was allowed. For Christmas 2003 that relative sent a 12 pack of yuengling packed in black socks, bubble wrap, and Christmas stockings. By the time I received he care package it was really too warm to enjoy, so I shared it with friends. Warm yuenglings and cigars definitely made the holidays away a little bit easier.
I have a family member who heard that Iraq was a dry country, they assumed that I couldn't buy it, but somehow it was allowed. For Christmas 2003 that relative sent a 12 pack of yuengling packed in black socks, bubble wrap, and Christmas stockings. By the time I received he care package it was really too warm to enjoy, so I shared it with friends. Warm yuenglings and cigars definitely made the holidays away a little bit easier.
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Charms candy... from my mother! I asked her if she wanted me dead right before I explained to her that they are bad luck!
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last deployment to Iraq, the wife sent me one of those electric flyswatters that look like a mini tennis racket. great fun was had by all. catch a sleeping Joe and touch it to the tip of his/her ear....
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