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Gifts for Soon to Be Soldier
The Iron Chancellor
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Friend of mine is going to Afghanistan relatively shortly. I am having a bit of trouble thinking of good gifts for him. Anyone have any experience with this type of situation? I was thinking of maybe getting him a DS and a game or two, or some books, or maybe build a Canadian bear to remind him of home or something. Any help would be appreciated.
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Your best bet would probably be to wait for him to get there and keep up with the guy...he's unlikely to know what he needs by way of needful things until he's actually there.
Care packages are a great idea and fairly cheap. If I had to guess, I'd throw in the following:
-playing cards, dominoes, etc
-eye drops, hand sanitizer, kleenex, icy hot, foot powder...basically anything sanitation related is a good bet.
-Non-spoiling food items like hard candy, beef jerky, etc.
Anything you can think of that you yourself can go to the corner drug store and grab is probably going to be in high demand during field deployment.
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I second the DS and some long RPG titles. Maybe a game like Tetris for infinite replay value. Books are always a bonus.
Good coffee/tea is too. In the forward areas the best a person can find is usually Folgers that's been in the coffee pot for about 12 hours too long.
Just about anything mundane that you can find in a grocery store is a godsend as long as it won't melt in transport.
Anyways he doesn't really need anything specific as far as gifts, just get him stuff he would like that makes sense. Don't get him a brand new gaming PC and a 52 inch tube TV, that doesn't make sense. Baby wipes are suppose to be great, not exactly sure why but every single person I have talked to told me that they are the greatest thing ever...but wouldn't explain why...
Anyways maybe some decent socks? They will be wearing boot socks a lot, some nice ones might help.
Porn, a DS/PSP, hand sanitizer, baby wipes, more porn
A laptop if you're made o' cash and he doesn't have one
Definitely though...get him porn
A lot of porn
Please do not get him these, I had so many disposable razors and deodorant when I finished up in Iraq it was ridiculous
Also: if he has a favorite non-perishable food item send that (in my case, it was Oreos)
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This. If the man likes his tobasco, you cant go wrong with sending him over with a bottle or two.
Hell get him a variety size package. If it includes the little tiny carry with you anywhere bottles the man might be your friend for eternity.
Also... PSP/DS. GET HIM ONE.
Long-distance phone cards
Candy that won't melt
Gum
Mints
Wet wipes
Ziplock baggies
Gatorade powder
Chapstick/Carmex
Gold Bond
Hand warmers (the kind you stick in your gloves when its cold)
There's a difference between deliberately choosing to drink sludge and being too tired to dump and rebrew an entire pot.
Amazon gift cards would work great. You can get damn near anything with free shipping, so your gift goes farthest. On that note, if any vendor charges more for shipping to an APO, DO NOT USE THEM. Better yet, report them to BBB or someone. The vendor only has to pay for shipping to some warehouse in Virginia, and DoD picks up the rest of the tab. I heard about some websites shafting soldiers that way.
I like the idea of a DS+games, or comic books - stuff he can use for a while then trade around for new stuff.
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Pretty much. In the the perfect world you expect your care package to be received most graciously with every piece, so thoughtfully packed, given equal attention. That their eyes will widen and swell with moisture as they gently unwrap their 200 count q-tip box. Perhaps they'll tenderly embrace a pack of AAA batteries as they drift away to the deepest of sleeps and dreams of home.
The truth is that there's more than likely a bigass PX wherever they are at. They will just buy whatever they need, knowing where they are and what there job is (which can tell you how likely they are to be stuck in a ditch somewhere without toilet paper) is also important.
The more likely scenario your package will go through will be like that of a pack of feral lion bears ripping into a sweet delicious rabbit deer. They'll take what they want, hand the rest out and whats left will be sifted through by the trash man. Send cool stuff, books, games, candy. Last I checked porn was a big no no... but noones gonna check for it most likely.