Care Packages

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Comment by lauren on July 17, 2012 at 1:46pm

I agree, I know that we ship to combat hospitals, but only with permission of the hospitals, and they tell us their needs at the time. One month it was pillows. one month it was t shirts...etc. Combat hospitals have very limited space so cant be storing anything. I have learned that I don't send anything anywhere without getting permission.....and we ship a lot of stuff .....lol........I applaud you Ron ....there are many troops that never even receive a letter

Comment by Forrest Glass on July 14, 2012 at 6:50am

We get to go shopping for a care package today.  Is there something WRONG that I would look FORWARD to that all week? 

Comment by Ron Bowen on July 12, 2012 at 11:30am

Thanks Forrest..I do have socks, but I will add the workout clothes...that is a great idea...thanks a lot.. :) ...I am not sure if my cards work international or not, I do know of a soldier that used them from afghanistan, but he had 800 service from his desk phone on the base, so he used them from there... :)

Comment by Forrest Glass on July 12, 2012 at 11:20am

There are International Phone Cards at Target that work really well.  I actually just e-mailed the information on the back of the card to my son so that I can recharge the card from here as needed.

I also got a request from him for socks and workout clothes, so those may be things you want to add to your care packages.  Amber warned me about that :-)

Comment by Forrest Glass on July 7, 2012 at 3:47pm

Thanks Ron

Comment by Ron Bowen on July 7, 2012 at 1:56pm

The ones I am using right now are 30 minutes pre paid cards that cost $1...I get them from the place that donates some to me as well...they take 10 minutes for a connection fee from a pay phone, so they get 20 minutes for each call...some of the other cards can take up to 30 minutes connection fee from a pay phone...I did some research on it and with a 500 minute card, if you make 10 calls 300 minutes will be used in connection fees alone..lol  The place I get them usually donates about 500 a week to me...when I first started I didn't think I could even use that many, but now I am sending out between 10 and 20 sets a day...which is 90 to 180 cards every day...lol...but so far with them donating cards and I use all donations to purchase cards I haven't ran out yet...praise the lord..lol....I hope to keep this going for many years...:)

Comment by Forrest Glass on July 7, 2012 at 1:21pm

What kind of phone cards do you guys normally get?  I saw some a while ago and really didn't know if they were the right ones.

 

Comment by Ron Bowen on July 7, 2012 at 9:11am

Thanks Paul...:)

Comment by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on July 7, 2012 at 9:03am

hey Ron- this link is to the Warrior Care page for Walter Reed- good place to start to find someone to talk to.....

http://www.wrnmmc.capmed.mil/WarriorCare/SitePages/WarriorCare.aspx

Comment by Ron Bowen on July 7, 2012 at 8:57am

Thanks Paul, and I will definitely be adding some calling cards..lol...and I have an address at walter reed for Medical Family Assistance..I wonder if that is still valid..??...maybe I will do a test letter first and see if they get that...:)...thanks for the heads up..

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