Thread: Falluja marines need help.

Just got this email forwarded to me from a friend, apparently there was a fire in one of the Marine's berthing areas earlier this week and a lot of soldiers lost their stuff. So if anybody here still has some M3 blades they keep meaning to throw away or some spare shaving gear to send out it'd be appreciated.

Here's the email

Subject: Marines Need Help:

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED

Hey Everyone. Today we had an incident here in Fallujah, and our sister units berthing area caught fire and burned to the ground. It spread so fast and with 120 temps here today, there was no way they could contain the fire in time. These Marines lost everything that they had, all of their military issued gear as well as personal gear. The area was a complete loss, and now these Marines have little means to come up with items to live a somewhat comfortable life out here.

As most of you know, or have heard, getting clothing items and hygiene items out here is very hard, and once it does get here it's a battle between everyone to buy as much as you can at one time. Everyone has been so good supporting us with the comforts of home, and now we are asking for people to help out our fellow Marines. Anything that you could send, hygiene items or clothing items (PT style clothing shorts/t-shirts/black socks/white socks/Boxers/shower shoes (sandals) would be greatly appreciated. Thank you all very much for your continued support...you guys keep us going. Here is my address, you can address it to me, or to Sgt Marilyn Gomez, and we will take it to the unit so it can be distributed out to them. Somewhere on the package, list "C/O RCT-1" that way we know what it is.


Cpl Espinoza, B.C.
(or)
Sgt Gomez, M.J.

I MEF CE FWD G-4
MDDOC/MCC-I Unit 42540
FPO-AP 96426-2540
Al-Fallujah, IRAQ


Brandon C. Espinoza
CPL/USMC
Multi National Force-West
MAGTF Deployment Dist. OPS Center
Movement Coordination Center, Fallujah Iraq

Thanks!

I have a couple of boxes of shaving stuff I can send. Another user was working an angle for a unit to send stuff to, but he's been MIA as of late. I'll try to inventory & box it up this weekend. Mostly brushes, soaps & disposables.

very cool, thanks!

I've still got a mach3 that my friend who nearly forced me to try won't take back. i'd love to send it out - I have a bunch of shaving gel too I'll never use leftover from bulk shopping in the old days

Howdy All,

I may be new to this site, but the compassion for helping others that I have seen here is amazing.
I am a member of the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps, NROTC, and will try to spread this around my unit, and other groups I know. Unfortunatly, I don't have much to give, but I'll see if we can get others to help out.

Very Respectfully,
Scott

Yeah, I can't afford anything at the moment, getting out the word is great.

Thanks

Originally Posted by sensei_kyle

I have a couple of boxes of shaving stuff I can send. Another user was working an angle for a unit to send stuff to, but he's been MIA as of late. I'll try to inventory & box it up this weekend. Mostly brushes, soaps & disposables.

Here's a list of what people here at SRP have donated via the Shaving Stuff for Troops thread. Some is donated gear, but most was purchased with PayPal donations:
24 Ziplock XS Tubs (for shaving soap)
27 Pucks of Williams Soap
13 Shaving Brushes
120 Disposable Razors
2 Gillette DE Razors with 40 Derby Blades
40 Condoms (useful for keeping sand out of the barrel of weapons)
1000 Q-tips
QED Shave Stick
DR Harris Shave Cram Sampler

I needed to fill up the remainder of one of the boxes, so I'm going to grab some OREO cookies or hard candy.

I am hoping to send this out later today.