Heres the info for the Marines we are sponsoring this year

21 May 2009:
First off, we greatly appreciate any thing that you would be kind enough to send.

We are deployed mostly from the southern California/San Diego area. We live in tents and have a decent dining facility but would love some snacks that would remind us of home. Please, if you're going to send snacks, ensure that it is wrapped well as it's very hot here and mail takes about two weeks to reach us. We don't have the ability to cook or heat any thing and very few of us have access to decent refrigerators. We do have a laundry service with about a 4 day turn-around and the laundry service provides its own soap so we don’t need that.

I'm writing this request on behalf of two platoons of maintenance and supply Marines.

The majority of us work outside predominantly so the following would be great to receive:

Powdered Gatorade / Powerade containers
Sunscreen (spray on preferably)
Trail Mix
Sunflower seeds
jerky
Spades decks / playing cards
Dominoes
Chess / checkers sets
Durable black, brown or green boot socks
DSCP or Soffe brand green tshirts (we can’t wear others in uniform)
Travel-sized toiletry items
deodorant
toothbrushes
Feminine hygiene-related items
Writing paper, envelopes and pens (black ink please)
magazines and books
baby wipes
movies (DVD for laptops)
Canned air bottles
batteries (assorted)
pillows with pillow cases
Single sheet sets
Religious reading materials (assorted)
Lamisil or other athlete's foot products
Tylenol / Excedrin / Motrin / Ibuprofen in either sealed bottles or individual pouches
Dayquil / Nyquil type products
Eyedrops
Nasal congestive sprays / medication
Febreze spray
Foot powder / spray
Boot insoles
black Marine rank insigna
Tan, brown or green face wraps to cover our nose and mouth during sandstorms

Please, no calling cards as we can not use them where we are.

Thank you for your time and God bless.

- LCpl Devan A. Combs

We would be happy to!! I know they love Magazines old and new! Geoff has plenty of NEW ones he can donate!!! :)g):)g)


We would love to !!
Let us know what we need to buy!

I haven't been able to donate gifts the last few years, but the Pay Pal you set up to help pay for shipping and/or supplies has been great.

I'm in!

Sounds good.

updated the first post

Please have items dropped off at Michaels shop by June 22nd
A-Z Print Ship
Ste B107
6630 W Cactus Rd, Glendale, AZ 85304

If you cant pick up anything you can send a paypal donation to breweris@hotmail.com

Awesome. Seems like a pretty easy list of stuff to throw in too. Marcia and I will probably go to the store and buy a handful of the stuff off the list.

I posted the info on the Phx EV 4x4 group and will collect items from them to pass along to Michael. Thanks for doing this guys!

Edit: Ok, I posted the info in a couple places.

K7AZV wrote:I posted the info on the Phx EV 4x4 group and will collect items from them to pass along to Michael. Thanks for doing this guys!

Edit: Ok, I posted the info in a couple places.

cool!

I sent out an email to my family and relatives too. They are going to be helping out as much as they can with the package this year too ;)

Passed the info around at work too and one of my coworkers just brought in 2 boxes of Clif bars. He said they hold up well in high heat when he's hiking/backpacking and should do just fine in the mail to the troops.

just an update on the cash donations side, weve collected $50 so far in donations to buy things

how are things going on the other boards?

Bump. I'm dropping my stuff off with Michael Monday morning!

Shanda, Geoff and the kids dropped off a ton of stuff to the shop today!!

Thanks guys!

Skatchkins wrote:Shanda, Geoff and the kids dropped off a ton of stuff to the shop today!!

Thanks guys!

Awesome! I saw amount of stuff you guys donated. Awesome!

I just dropped off the stuff I collected. The pile is looking pretty good. Great job everyone. If you hurry, you can still get your donations to Michael and Chris before they ship it.

So...Have we sent this out yet?? Just curious, I had a couple of more things to toss in but, not a big deal.. Just have been busy with things..

Ok, I bumped a few other threads in hopes of getting you a few more $$$.

Chris has posted that shipping is going to cost approximately $100 for all the stuff collected. If you hadn't donated and would still like to, they could use a few more dollars to cover shipping. You can Paypal cash to breweris@hotmail.com. Thanks everyone!

Will go out today probably. Shanda you guy's have done plenty. Thank you

Skatchkins wrote:Will go out today probably. Shanda you guy's have done plenty. Thank you

be sure to take pics and tell us the weight of the boxes too

offroadaz wrote:be sure to take pics and tell us the weight of the boxes too

Yeah, all that lead I donated probably doesn't help with shipping costs.

Going out today with Delivery Confirmations





Packed them pretty tight. Large one is 50lb

Message included

Just a 4th of July salute to you guys and gals from back here in the States.

We really just wanted to say thank you and we appreciate what you do for us and the country.

We’re a small Christian Jeep Club in Arizona.
Please accept our nominal gifts and we hope it brings a little comfort or remembrance of us and life here.

If you have access, drop us a line on our forum to let us know you got everything okay.
Thank you again from back home

The guys and gals of Higher Ground


www.HigherGround4x4.com
p.s. the stickers are b/c we secretly hoped we could see one on something cool, preferably something pointed business end towards the Taliban. :)

Thanks to everyone who contributed

freaking amazing everyone. I'm so proud to know you all.

Mike - still needing donations for the shipping costs? Can I make those to Chris' paypal account?