Thinking this Veteran's Day about doing my civilian duties and sending a care package of cigars overseas to the troops. However, all my friends that serve are currently home, so I don't know anyone over there. Anyone have any info on how to send a bundle or 2 over to a platoon? Trying to get info on everything from what I need to do from shipping stuff overseas, to how to get in touch with someone currently over there to send them to.

 

Also, if anyone else wants to chip in and also send a couple stogies, lemme know.

Great Idea!

 

I know there is another member whos mother organizes packages to send, I forget who but they contacted me when my brother was deployed last spring.

 

 

theres a few sources but one I can think of of the top of my head is www.adoptaplatoon.org .

Look here:

 

http://adoptaplatoon.org/site/

 

on left side of page - see 'pages" column and look for "Details on how to support"

Supplying a Platoon is goona take a few cigars................ lol

I checked that site out. It says platoons vary in size from 25-50. Bundles come in packs of 20. Was thinking of sending 3 or 4 bundles. Maybe more depending on what my next paycheck looks like.

My step son is in Kuwait I send him sticks every month, double zip locked with humipaks. I also donate here - http://cigarsforwarriors.org

 

They also need any old travel humidors you might have to keep them in over there in the sand box.

 

Great to see you doing this.

 

Ant

Yes - Very nice indeed - I'm sure your efforts will be well appreciated!

I just had an idea... My father in law owns a cigar store in Medford (Finlay's Cigars), and I recently started and run a Facebook page for his business. I'm going to make a post about sending the cigars to the troops on there too so I can get some more people involved; and every "like" it gets, I'll send 2 smokes over outa my pocket. So if you wanna send 2 stogies over to our troops on my dime, get on FB "like" that sh!t. lol.

 What else could I send over with the cigars that would be appreciated over there? I saw on that website personal hygiene products and other little morale boosting stuffs. Any other ideas?

Great Idea!

 

I know there is another member whos mother organizes packages to send, I forget who but they contacted me when my brother was deployed last spring.

 

 

theres a few sources but one I can think of of the top of my head is www.adoptaplatoon.org .

that may have been me? My wife is with the Mahwah Marine Moms, a well established group up here that send hundreds of packages a yr, not just to Marines. My son is now out but we personalysent him (them)weekly boxes to his deployments. Still do but not so often to others. Great short story- my FIL who is a flyboy vet was at his winter digs in Fl. When he called me to say they, re coming up but was stopping at the air force base down there first, do we want anything? Sure I said, buy a few boxes of cigarettes and we can send them to the sandbox tohis grandson. He shows up a week later with a Shitload of cigs, $700 worth !!! And thats at the discounted price! We sent 2 of the lg post office boxes right off and 2 cartoons every week for a while. My son said he was very well taken care of over there lol. Btw, he doesnt smoke!

And great idea OP. They love their tobacco.

When i was there the guys at J&r cigar would personally walk to the post office and hand write the customs forms and would leave notes of appreciation.

 

I would order online. In fact i got my full appreciation of cigars from J&r and all they did to happily send them over to is.

 

Other than that, the best thing anyone ever sent us was a giant box full of double stuffed Oreos. We all had mini fridge's in our CHU's and those were AWESOME! Just open the fridge and eat one. Good times.

 

Last would be the coffee press my mom sent me. After that arrived we got all kinds of local coffee and got friends to send coffee.

 

 

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Hmmm oreos are a good idea, everyone loves them. lol. Candy? How easy is it to get cigarettes over there? 

 

 

 

 

Last would be the coffee press my mom sent me. After that arrived we got all kinds of local coffee and got friends to send coffee
 

 

Before that did you guys have coffee? or was it that instant crap out of the MRE's? I wouldn't mind sending over a coffee press and a bag of coffee or 2 with the stogies. if you guys enjoyed it, i imagine they would too. lol.

Oh sure we had coffee and not just the MRE kind. But we got it from the DFAC. That was just one type of coffee over and over again.

 

The best thing about the coffee press was, now my mom could send me all sorts of different types of coffee beans and so could anyone else that was interested in sending me something. Lots of people I know and my mother were very happy to send me what they thought would be a very tasty coffee bean. It was really good, to be honest.

 

Candy always seemed to be present there. I was never in Afghanistan but in Iraq it was very hot in the summer months. If you were to send candy it should only be the hard type. Honestly, I can't say one way or the other about candy. I don't think I would send any, but other people would really appreciate it I'm sure. I just can't really address that question.

 

Same with cigarettes, I don't smoke cigarettes and don't know what if any issues were there. Chewing tobacco, on the other hand, seemed very popular.

 

One other thing that always seems to be in demand are those mach three razors. Everybody seems to run out of those.

 

 

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