# Army basic training: what can I send my friend?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 4, 2008, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/army-basic-training-what-can-i-send-my-friend/455258 "2008-07-04T01:46:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 7, 2008, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/army-basic-training-what-can-i-send-my-friend/455258/21 "2008-07-07T15:55:22Z")

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[QUOTE=Bear\_Nenno]  
What comes after that? Should be some Letter “A, B, C, D, or E” and then either 2-47, 3-47, 2-54. I just left the 192nd a year ago.  
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There’s no letter, but there is a 2-47.

**usar\_jag** , I think I like that idea. It’s also pretty much the type of thing I would quite possibly tease him about if he were here in person.

> [@OtakuLoki](#):
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> Another vote here for your letters alone will be enough to make his day.
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> Probably the best thing I ever got in any of my Navy days care packages was when a girl I knew included a couple of fall leaves for me. Little things, showing that you’re thinking of him, will mean more than anything else.

Alas, the only thing similar to that I can think of would be a baggie of Genuine Desert Dirt, or perhaps a cactus, and I sort of doubt that either would be really what he wants.  
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