Finally !!! Mr. Spectre asks for something !!!

Kismet

Kismet

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www.JohnRShirley.com <-neat site.

U.S.P.S. has pre-marked boxes which cost a flat $8.30 for ANY weight that will fit in there. Two shapes are available. John said no drugs, porn, and er...something else. I almost sent some Wisconsin tomatoes, but feared for their survival. Transit time is about 10 days from here to there.
 
Folks kept asking what we could use or needed.

Well, basically, all personal hygiene items can and will be gratefully received. Some things, like dandruff shampoo, just aren't carried in our little PX. Other things, like Mach 3 razor blades, are even steeper than in the States.

I've already received some coffee mugs, so I don't have to pack disposable cups back from the DFAC every night. :)

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...oh, Kis? Last thing was, "can't go boom!" :D

J
 
Ah. Can't go boom, can't go boom, can't go boom. Got it.


So...no LSD laced, exploding dirty magazines? Just as well, be hard to find.


wacherass.
 
Dang...had the beans all packed up too.

Hey...maybe this is my opportunity to ship that cat somewhere...John...ya'll need any mineral oil over there?
 
Just read your website that you like reading. Have you read 'Thunder Run' by David Zucchino? It is about the Armoured Corp assault on Bagdadh. I don't usually read books but we were up at a friend's cottage and her son is mentioned in the book on page 150. USMC Gunnery Sargeant Danny Brown is described as a 'Specialist Jack of all Trades'! He analysed mortar craters from an attack that was becoming tiresome, worked out the location of the mortar crew and called in 2 x F18 who dropped 4 x 500lb (?) JDAMs on the area. The book says 'the mortars stopped'. I found the book rivetting and started reading it at 1.00 pm and finished reading the next day at 11.00 pm. Then I read our friend's chapter again, and then I read Chapter 1 again.

After reading the book she gave me a new USMC peaked forage cap. It made my day!
 
John, the number one problem soldiers in a combat zone face, is complacency (sp?). In other words don't get too comfortable with how things are. As soon as you do, that's when the dark matter hits the rotating blades, and people go home in a steel box. My unit got lucky in Iraq, we brought everyone home this time. My first trip there (Desert Storm) we weren't so lucky. We sent 3 home in those steel crates with a flag on top.:(

Watch your "six" and get your ass to the E-5 board. Them are orders from an E-6.
(JK :D about the E-5 board bit. NOT about the watch your "six", that one I am serious about.)

SSG William Sanders
USAR
(AKA: Bill)
 
Thanks, Sarn't.

Andrew, I've heard of Thunder Run, but haven't read it yet. I'm almost halfway through Chesty.
 
Spectre said:
Thanks, Sarn't.

Andrew, I've heard of Thunder Run, but haven't read it yet.
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May I send you a copy? I am just about to order a copy for myself, as I know I will want to read it again. My wife says she would be happy to send pillowcases, (she has some lovely FLOWERY ones, lol :) razors etc.

I don't see an address?
 
Andrew,

I'd love to read it, thanks.

My address is:

John R Shirley
HHC 1/180 INF, 41 BCT
Camp Phoenix
APO, AE 09320
 
I have just ordered the books and will try and turn a copy around back to the US from Canada, the day I receive them. It is an Amazon seller who is Canadian, but ships from Rhode Island. If I can send direct I will once I get confirmation of the order.
 
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