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Morgen.
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today i sent a box of food to my brother who is fighting in afghanistan for our country. he has lost 15 pounds cause they dont feed them enough. i sent him jerky and cheese and crackers, even a spider web and a fake spider to hang in his tent for festivities even though he cant spend the holidays with us. i feel so bad. we sit on the computer all day talking about what new shoes we got or what kind of skis we have this year while half of our men and women are sitting in the ass hole of the world not knowing if they are going to live to see their family again.

sad.

does anyone else have family overseas?

Sep 21 2009 10:28PM
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Ben.
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i dont but best wishes to your bro man. doesnt matter what war, or how little i support it, i still wanna see people like him get home safe.
Sep 21 2009 10:31PM
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Mr.Panda
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have two friends in the marines out there and one in the SEALs.  this summer, sent them all care packages.  4 cans of dip, 8 porn mags, bottle of ripped fuel, and some dirty letters in each of them.
Sep 21 2009 10:32PM
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Morgen.
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man?

haha im a girl :]

but thanks

Sep 21 2009 10:34PM
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Hansel.
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you know your best friends when they send you this.


Sep 21 2009 10:35PM
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G_1
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yeah, best wishes to your bro. respect to the men and women over there in the armed forces.
Sep 21 2009 10:35PM
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Ben.
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haha oops. saw the blue name and assumed. just goes to show you about assuming lol.
Sep 21 2009 10:36PM
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Morgen.
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im sure my brother would have wanted those.

but he would be freaked out if his 16 year old sister sent it to him

Sep 21 2009 10:38PM
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marinejonny19
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thats pretty fucking sick of you too do. I hope when I go over, in either december or march people send me a package or two.
Sep 21 2009 10:39PM
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Mr.Panda
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its cause its always one of three things when i get a chance to talk about them.  they ALWAYS bitch and its about not enough dip, not enough new pictures to jerk it to, or they cant stay awake long enough.
Sep 21 2009 10:40PM
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Hansel.
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ill send you shit. maxium or playboy? hahahahah
Sep 21 2009 10:41PM
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Mr.Panda
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nah, the usual request is hustler or penthouse dude.  more pics, less words.
Sep 21 2009 10:43PM
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Morgen.
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there has got to be more people than me with fam over there.
Sep 21 2009 10:53PM
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Hansel.
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touche, i agree with this statement
Sep 21 2009 11:32PM
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Mr.Panda
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the majority of NS is so liberal that i kinda doubt many people have siblings in the service or even know anyone in the military.

and the Hustler thing, i know from experience.  i sent a playboy and this was the response i got.

"greg, playboys are nice, you see some semi celebrities naked which is EPIC.  BUT, there are too many articles.  if i wanted articles id ask for a time magazine or some shit.  send hustler, i want pics of girls doing bad things to themselves."

Sep 21 2009 11:36PM
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Hansel.
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hahahaha great response.

I had a family friend over there as a firefighter and one of my cousins might go soon
Sep 21 2009 11:40PM
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Mr.Panda
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two buddies of mine that are in the marines are still there for another 4 months.  the SEAL friend is out for another 8.  two other friends in the Rangers are shipping out soon.  and i have another friend in the 101st shipping out soon as well.
Sep 21 2009 11:42PM
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Hansel.
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damn props to your friends

im thinkin about joinin the marines but im not sure
Sep 21 2009 11:43PM
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Mr.Panda
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i would love to join the Marines or any other form of the military.  i cant though.  one, im overweight and they could probably never find me a uniform.  two, my left leg is 3/8 of an inch shorter than my right and i have horrible eyesight...
Sep 21 2009 11:46PM
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Hansel.
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yea, my eyesight is so bad. im not sure weather if i do join to go through the acad and become an officer or just join up in the good ol fashioned calvery. some of the people scare me tho, just seeing the videos on youtube and in the news some people shouldnt be in the armed forces with a gun.
Sep 21 2009 11:48PM
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prontocuts.com
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I know how it feels, my dad was over there. it was one of the worst times of my life, hopefully i get to go over.
+vibes yo
Sep 21 2009 11:50PM
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Mr.Panda
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like, Generation Kill...  idiot officers that dont know what "Danger Close" means for artillery strikes.
Sep 21 2009 11:51PM
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Hansel.
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haha like some of the far out people who take everything literally. and try to be the perfect american by living the way they interpret the laws by. just scary stuff in general to say the least about war.
Sep 21 2009 11:53PM
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Morgen.
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yah i cant imagine my dad over there. that must have sucked

Sep 22 2009 1:11PM
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SKIDUBAIGUY
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My dad was in the first gulf war when i was very young, but he was a pilot and based out of the action and flew overhead to refuel jets in the air, i didnt know what was going on cause i was so small but yeah.
Sep 22 2009 1:24PM
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neutralzombie
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my best friends fiancee is there, he seems to be eating quite well...although he did have to bathe from a well in front of aghani men today apparently.
Sep 22 2009 3:37PM
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kylemiller
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dads been for 18 months and moms going for a year soon
Sep 22 2009 9:29PM
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SteevJee
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My cousins on his second tour in Iraq with the Marines. He's on his way home in about 2 weeks.
Sep 22 2009 9:59PM
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Slinger1x1
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"we sit on the computer all day talking about what new shoes we got or what kind of skis we have this year while half of our men and women are sitting in the ass hole of the world not knowing if they are going to live to see their family again."

I hate to be THAT guy... but it is his choice, and everyone elses choice who go to war. I completely respect him, and i feel bad for him and your family since you are separated, but he wasn't forced to sit in the asshole of the world, and he wasnt forced to think about life or death and have skis and shoes be his last priority.

good luck to you and him
Sep 22 2009 10:58PM
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RudyGarmisch
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Wish your bro the best, hope he gets back home safe and sound as quickly as possible.
Sep 22 2009 11:02PM
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twintipteles
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so your family can be just as worried about you? Why not just save everyone the trouble and stay out of the military?

I hope the OP's brother gets home safely, along with everyone else.

Sep 23 2009 1:01AM
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blackwallstreetd
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 lol "the asshole of the world" and my cousin and her husband are in the persian gulf on an aircraft carrier so its harder to send things but when we can we do.
Sep 23 2009 10:20AM
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Big5hifty
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props to your bro and family good luck
Sep 23 2009 10:23AM
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afton_steeze
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So much respect to your brother and family, it must be so hard, I don't know how you do it.
Sep 23 2009 10:39AM
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Mr.Panda
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"greg, its not the asshole of the world.  its the asscrack in the middle of the biggest shithold on the earth damnit.  its the place God forgot cause he doesnt want to deal with people killing each other over stupid shit all the time.  fuck, get it right moron."

got that this morning from my buddy in the Marines.
Sep 23 2009 12:35PM
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SKIDUBAIGUY
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I live about 30 mins from the sandbox (US navy base) and i see the us navy guys come through here often, word gets round pretty quick when the navy are in here, infact my mate just told me he saw a load of the navy guys from one of the ships in a mall recently, could of been him!
Sep 23 2009 1:28PM
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mtbakerteacher
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My brother just got back from Iraq. 2nd tour, marines. He says it's boring as fuck over there.
Sep 23 2009 2:12PM
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da-bling
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my college room mate just went to afghanistan 3 weeks ago he's with the 101st airborne
Sep 23 2009 4:20PM
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Cant-Er
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i like this idea... one of my closest friends that i met working park crew at my local mountain last year just left for afghanistan. and another one of my best friends from high school leaves october 13th.


and to the thread creator...  best of wishes to your brother, yourself, and the rest of your family!

Sep 23 2009 4:38PM
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Morgen.
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thanks for all the support.

my bro is coming back for a couple of weeks.

im pretty excited yet sad cause after his leave he wont see me again for 2 years. its kinda funny that he is in the army and our last name is rambo. he gots lotsa people to ask for pictures with him.

Sep 23 2009 4:46PM
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brandon_
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MY cousin (like a brother) just got back from ghan, its nerve racking wondering how there doing.  I When i'm old enough ( if where still there of course) i'll hopefully be able to join them.

Hope youre brother gets through his tour alright.
Sep 23 2009 4:47PM
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pomme-de-terre
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my mom went to iraq to be on a FFST with the 4th I.D., we used to send her mad shit, like these huge fucking boxes, filled with all kinds of shit, but alot of them never got there, so we would send like 4 or 5 boxes filled with all the same shit, and each one had copies of all the letters we wanted to send.
one time, we sent her this box of video-tapes for her and other guys in her unit to watch and we got a letter back that said
"thanks for the tapes!! i loved the effort but send DVD's next time! it was in excess of 130 Fahrenheit when they arrived, and i opened the box to find a big melted pile of plastic" 

then my cousin was stationed in iraq in well, i dunno exactly what he did or who he was attached to, but i know it has something to with tanks, because when he came back he used to always talk about how cool it was to shoot at stuff with the 105mm cannon on the bradley
packages always got to him though, and we used to send him hustlers and cheese...


Sep 23 2009 4:49PM
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Twinjibber77
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I really don't wanna go to Afghanistan, heard some real bad shit coming out of there.
Sep 23 2009 4:53PM
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conman2800
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im joinin the marines
Sep 23 2009 5:19PM
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panojibber
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I hope your brother and everyone who is over there gets home alright, its a sketchy and stressful place for sure.

With any luck this stupid war will be over soon and we can start on a new one (no hate directed to anyone but government there).
Sep 23 2009 7:01PM
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no_steeze
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hope your bro kicks some ass and gets home unscathed
Sep 23 2009 7:03PM
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Mr.Panda
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this is a message i got from my dad this morning (im out at college and we quite often emaikl back and forth.  its funny, i email with him but talk on msn messenger with my mom and they arent even divorced) and my dad served in vietnam for about 2 years.

"this war has become your version of vietnam.  only difference, its not in a jungle, and napalm is no longer legal.  they just have deadlier weapons now that can level a town that is a kilometer in diameter."
Sep 23 2009 7:04PM
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daytripper67
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yeah id be down
Sep 23 2009 7:55PM
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Astomp
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im at fort sam houston texas right now going to school to be a combat medic.  im waiting for orders to see where i go. i got two months left of school then its game time.  i hope hope hope for something over seas.  and i know its dangerous out there right now for our soldiers in afghan and still in iraq.  i hope his unit/company has great medics and cant wait for myself to get out there and help out the boys.  hooah.
Sep 23 2009 8:25PM
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Morgen.
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im glad there is people out there willing to go and are ready. great job and keep up the good work yo,

Sep 23 2009 10:44PM
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GorillaChop
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fucken rugged man, everytime somone says soemthing liek this, its just like, the whole fucken reality of that shit sets in, liek fuck one more year, and that coudl be fucken me over crouchin around in sandville, fucken good vibes sent yer way mayne...
Sep 23 2009 10:50PM
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