I have been thinking about this for far too long and have decided, since war is inevitable, and know no one in active duty,
does anyone know of US service personale/or outfit that I (or we as a Doper collective) could ‘adopt’ and mail letters of support too?
I would include the UK service people too, cause I am a sucker for an accent. 
On of my best friends is doing time at Bagram (theres an ‘h’ in there somewhere). I’ll drop him an email and see if he knows any lonely Airborne.
I’ve “adopted” a soldier who is in Kuwait right now. I went through adoptaplatoon.org. But if this guy gets in touch with me (so far, it’s been one way, but I just got him) I can ask him, too.
This hasn’t been made public, however to send packages overseas to a unit, it now has to be addressed to a particular servicemember, i.e. a name and address. For security reasons, they are not allowing letters or packages to “any service member” anymore. If you’re going to adopt, you’re going to have to adopt a specific person. With a board this big, I’m sure there are enough folks who have friends and relatives going over that it shouldn’t be hard to find someone. Thanks for your support though. I’m in, but I have a snowball’s chance in hell of going over.
Actually, I know of at least one board member who is going over soon. Can’t say much more than that, at least not at the present time.
Also, please remember the families of those who are going over. Although the servicemembers have it very rough when they’re deployed, the families don’t have it easy, either. Offer to invite a family over for dinner one night, or offer to babysit so Mom or Dad has a chance to run errands or take a nap or whatever. Deployment effectively turns the remaining parent into a single parent, and any and all help is appreciated.
Robin
Hmm…since I live on an air force base I can find out and get back to you.
Very true.
My son’s in the reserve. Just got called up. Training in the US for 2 weeks, then off to - ?
Cranky, thanks for the link. I had no idea something like this exists.