Yes you can

Todd, dont be a skeered

Beef Jerky is always a hit. smokes and or smokeless tobacoo, candy, socks, deoderant, drink mixes, COFFEE,

few ideas from the forward deployed. and if anyone has any extra laying around, good looking women never hurt.

-Marine stuck at Sea.

not askairt at all

Beth likes to be whipped more than I do :-"

by coffee - do you mean instant? or 1 pot makings? or cans of folgers or maxwell house or.....

Yes...all of the above

Yes, and coffee house coffee, too. I've been trying to find a contact at Red Rock Roasters, which is my favorite local roaster, to see if I can get them to donate - but I can't get anybody at that place to call me! -B

have you contacted Starbucks and other chains?

I've done a little of that - Seattle's Best Coffee already does something with sending on their own or through another organization. I've tried to stay local, but if anyone has any contacts with a coffee roaster please let those of us in OpFTH know. Something official and nation wide might should come from Smitty, but that would be great! -B

any and all coffee is good. being on the ship is a little easier to make regular coffee but the dirt guys may need instant more than regular. creamer and sugar packets are a hit as well. i know personally that as the seasons back home change the flavoerd (holiday) creamers remind me of better times and places.

Packing up some goodies for jarhead as we speak....hehehehe. -B

Such a sweetheart. Thank you B.

-James

Too bad they get so mad about sending home-made items - I can't send you prickly pear jelly until you've returned.....

The boat isn't as harsh as the dirt deployments. they don't get mad at bout homemade...... just sayin

I would NEVER think of violation regulations, I'm just not that kind of person. 🤐 😳 🤥

Hahahahaha. -B

Don't forget - there's prickly pear jelly for cigar or other troop donations.....

Current Troop Requests - PM me for my address to send these goodies - everything you send to me turns around and is en route to our Troops within 48-72 hours in most cases, and rarely longer than a week. (Which is pretty good, considering I work two jobs. The exception is cigars that arrive dry or in bad shape and need to live in my cooler for a while to get into smokeable condition)

-Flavored cigars for a woman who is a corpsman in Afghanistan. She'd like coffee flavors like Drew Estate Tabak (that I can't seem to win at auction....), or other flavored cigars.

-Coffee - Anything from instant to whole beans from your local high-end coffee shop is appreciated. Anybody who can't grind and brew can trade with someone who can.)

-Cigar cutters - bullet cutters are nice for the pocket, and they don't open up and bite a guy or gal in the azz. (I can't win these damn things at auction either)

-Matches (I can't send full lighters; I can send empty lighters but if they can't get their hands on the fluid/gas then it's just decorative)

-Hand sanitizer towels or in small bottles, nothing that smells like baby magic, please, these are for washing hands prior to meals, among other things, and nobody wants their food to smell like a baby's bum.

-Good socks (see the thread above - the sock discussion got lots of play, but I didn't wind up with any socks for the Troops, perhaps they went to one of the other OpFTH agents, which would be wonderful)

-Drink mixes (individual mixes that don't require sugar)

-Protein drinks and protein bars

-Anything fun and cheerful, like beach balls (that deflate for shipping) or other fun stuff.

-Cigars of any kind, including machine made, but better cigars are appreciated by those in the know

-Cigarettes (Marlboro and Camel are most requested)

-Dip (Skoal and Kodiak most requested, in regular and mint)

-Snus (General, Camel and Marlboro, or pouches from dip makers)

-Candy - We're getting to the time of year when chocolate will actually make the trip there in semi-solid form, so clean out your local store after Halloween!

Zito just blew my porch right off the house with 26 pairs of covert threads socks for the troops. Holy cow! 👍

Nice work Zito!!!! =d>

Those are good socks.

I would like to thank all of you who have sent stuff over to this hell hole. It's nice to know people care.