Donations to the troops 2009 Girls of Brazil Calendars

3750 calendars were put on a truck today.  This truck is leaving from Billings, Montana to go to Texas.  From Texas these calendars will get shipped to Iraq  and Afghanistan and eventually find their way to the troops on the front of the lines.

This shipment is the first of four shipments going out in the next four weeks.  This brings the total Girls of Brazil 2009 calendars donated to the troop at 20,000.

Your team knows how to “warm-up” an Iraqi winter! The calendars were a
perfect gift right before Christmas. Our mission changed about 30 days into
our deployment and now we are the northern most Marine unit in Iraq living
on a very small combat outpost. Our food is limited and not very good, our
mail is sent to us monthly from Al Asad so these calendars were a big
motivator for the Marines.
Thank you for supporting the wounded warriors, it is an awesome
organization. Some of our Marines that were wounded in their last
deployment have 1st hand experience of that organization.
The news back home is wasted on celebrity problems and bad news in
general. It should tell stories about all the great Americans like you who
do great things behind the scenes and give so much support to us. Your
support makes our job easy.
I’ve attached a photo of the “old men” of our company. L/R is MSgt Jeff
Lafferty (ops chief), 1stSgt Doug Rines (Co 1stSgt), Major Arcelio Albizo
(CO)
Semper Fidelis,
1stSgt Doug Rines USMC

I used to live in Montana for a while in the Conrad area.  I now live in Arizona but will one day soon hopefully move back.  To you, I say thank you again for the calendar, it was very well done by the photographer.  As a matter of fact, I had recently bought a SI calendar, but will take it back and get my money back.  Your calendar blows it out of the water.

Take care,
Bill