care packages

[67echo]

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For those of you that have deployed in the MS before...what would be some good care package items to send? I've never been and got tasked with putting one together for a fellow officer working in a CSH. Any advice would be appreciated.

 

[DrMetal]

For those of you that have deployed in the MS before...what would be some good care package items to send? I've never been and got tasked with putting one together for a fellow officer working in a CSH. Any advice would be appreciated.

Beverages, of a particular caliber 😉 . Buy a large Listerine bottle, the brown colored kind that looks like whiskey. Note the level of the liquid. Cut the plastic wrapper at the top very carefully, with a razor (a straight line incision), save the wrapper, you'll need it. Thoroughly rinse out the bottle (several times, preferably using DI water). Add JD to the bottle, to the level of the previous liquid. Secure the lid, place wrapper back on with small (indiscriminant) amount of adhesive. Send off! Your comrades will love you for it. They might complain that it tastes kinda funny when it gets there, but oh well, beggers can't be choosers.

 

[NavyFP]

Beverages, of a particular caliber 😉 . Buy a large Listerine bottle, the brown colored kind that looks like whiskey. Note the level of the liquid. Cut the plastic wrapper at the top very carefully, with a razor (a straight line incision), save the wrapper, you'll need it. Thoroughly rinse out the bottle (several times, preferably using DI water). Add JD to the bottle, to the level of the previous liquid. Secure the lid, place wrapper back on with small (indiscriminant) amount of adhesive. Send off! Your comrades will love you for it. They might complain that it tastes kinda funny when it gets there, but oh well, beggers can't be choosers.

I had a bottle of scotch sent to me listed as a "Flower vase". As is no special packaging. mmmmmmmmmmmm goooooooooood.

 

[DrMetal]

I had a bottle of scotch sent to me listed as a "Flower vase". As is no special packaging. mmmmmmmmmmmm goooooooooood.

Yeah, i go that extra mile to package it in a special way b/c mine's was raided this one time, aw the humanity!

 

[The White Coat Investor]

You really need to know where the person is and what's available. I went to Qatar and honestly didn't need a thing. There were DVDs, games, video games, books, and toiletries on every counter and 3 bars on base. We had a BX and ten restaurants on base. It was so much easier to get care packages to us than some FOB somewhere that tons of them just stopped at our place and were completely wasted.

What I really enjoyed were videos of my kids. I showed them to all my co-workers until they were sick of them. I never did get sick of watching them.