Comments on: “Are you OK? Stay safe! I love you.”

By: sfcmac

sfcmac — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 13:28:57 +0000

I know what it’s like being OCONUS during the holidays away from family.
I spent more time outside the country (in peace and war)than stateside. To all my fellow Soldiers still deployed:
Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Take care,
Cheryl(SFC MAC)
“ON THE EIGHTH DAY GOD CREATED THE UNITED STATES ARMY AND THE DEVIL STOOD AT ATTENTION”

By: Kevin K.

Kevin K. — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 13:12:36 +0000

Dear Christian Soldier (#24), aka MOM:

On behalf of my colleagues and also from me, thank you.

By: danimal

danimal — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:35:24 +0000

My wife and I received a pre-paid phone card in the mail as part of a promotion. We want to donate it to the troops. Does anyone have any suggestions on how we can accomplish this?
I didn’t see anything in the link MM provided on how or where to send pre-paid calling cards.

By: trinitytim

trinitytim — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:53:37 +0000

First of all, God bless you Army. We love you, support you, and pray for you all daily.

When I was in Vietnam we did not have cell phones or landlines. The only time I spoke to my Mom and Dad was when I called from Hong Kong on my 5 day R&R. Care packages from home often took up to a month to receive and were only delivered when we got resupplied in the field.

I remember one time when the Chinook came in with a slingload of supplies underneath and we had set our tanks and APC’s up in a night defensive position. The rotors picked up a log and dropped them on a landmine, blowing all of our mail, mashed potaotes, and other supplies all over the clearing. First hot meal we had scheduled for more than a month and it ended up being blown up. We thanked out Lt. for setting us up inside a minefield.

Our troops have it very hard on them and their families. Thankfully, the internet, cell phones, and other state of the art technologies help a tiny bit but don’t think for a minute that it makes it any easier. Their sacrifices are immense and we should be forever thankful to them all.

By: Old Tanker

Old Tanker — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:36:41 +0000

On December 20th, 2007 at 12:48 pm, Just A Grunt said:

In the first Gulf War it was about 4 months before we got a “phone tent” A GP Large with 40 or so phones in it. We would wait in line for 3 hours or so and get 10 minutes on the phone. I used to think how lucky we were compared to guys in previous wars.

By: Christian Soldier

Christian Soldier — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:07:01 +0000

Dear ARMY #13

We Moms regard all of you as “mine”- so we worry already (-:

God cover all of you Army – Navy -Marines – Air Force -Coast Guard—You’re all “mine”.

“MOM”

By: terrig

terrig — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:38:10 +0000

This year my husband is home, next year he’s scheduled to go back again. It’s always difficult but when I think back to what my aunt’s went through during WW2 waiting weeks and months to hear from their boyfriends (at the time).
Hubby always says not to worry as well, that his training will always kick in but sometimes things happen and they don’t come home.
Remember all those who didn’t make it home from all the wars, those who came back injured and those away from their loved ones. For the most part, everyone here is really nice and does pray for our troops and does what they can do to support them. However, I saw a bumper sticker yesterday while house hunting that said “I’ll support the troops when they come home and quit killing”. Nice, perhaps it was lgm or rusty. Notice, those two always are absent when it comes to supporting the troops (although rusty always claims to love his relatives who have served yet wants transgenered in but won’t serve himself but wants the military to be a social experiment). Oh well, they reap the benefits of those who serve and hope they will one day wake up and see the error of their ways.

By: Just A Grunt

Just A Grunt — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:51:11 +0000

One other thing I did while stationed in Korea without the family is to get children’s books and read them aloud and record them on cassette tape and send them home. It really made the kid happy and now that she is older and almost grown up she still has them.

By: Just A Grunt

Just A Grunt — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:48:42 +0000

In some ways the ability to reach out and touch somebody with todays’ technology does make it tougher. Why in my day (imagine grumpy old man voice)back in the 80′s and 90′s all we had were landlines and MARS Grams. Anybody remember MARS grams? Cell phone, sat phone, shoot, we had standing phones. Stand in line at the pay phone, (remember those?)or dadgummit just write a letter. Young whipper snappers nowadays.
/Oh yeah and I walked through 5 ft of snow to school uphill both ways.

By: Blind_Mule

Blind_Mule — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:48:25 +0000

Army said:
Don’t worry for us,

I worry about all of you hoping that you all come home safe. The fact is if your a parent wether or not your son or daughter is in Afghanistan or Iraq you still worry about those that are fighting to keep freedom alive. Thank you all for your service to our country, have a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR

Please, take your concerns to a VA hospital, or the home of a wounded vet of all our wars. Those troops need the moral boost.

They have given all, for you… honor them.

All that have fought in war’s past and present deserve our respect and admiration for doing what other choose not to. Let’s not forget those that have payed the ultimate price for our freedoms say a prayer for them and their famlies to get through the holiday’s without their love ones. God Bless you all.

By: twiggman

twiggman — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:42:50 +0000

Thank You Army.. God Bless.. Stay safe.

By: Archon

Archon — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:42:26 +0000

Army hit the nail on the head.

Donnab13, keep bragging! You have every right to be proud.

For those of you in the box, talk to your commo geek. The MBITR can be used (even though it wasn’t designed) for SATCOM functions, and sometimes you can hit Iridium…I don’t know the mechanics of it, but I know it works.

By: ArmoredCAV

ArmoredCAV — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:16:07 +0000

Thanks for reminding me to call home. I don’t do it nearly enough, and I will do so tonight.

By: 30 pcs of silver

30 pcs of silver — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:04:52 +0000

Army,
Thank you! Stay safe!

God Bless!

By: donnab13

donnab13 — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:02:59 +0000

God bless you Army. We are moms…we worry.
But we also believe in you, support you and are so very proud of you. We brag about you every chance we get unabashedly.
We honor each and every one of you.