Platoon Partners

We have received a platoon to support in Iraq. 1st Lt. Reed Brown is our contact. There is a box in the Narthex of the church for your donations to our troops. Postage is also needed. If you would like to donate for postage, please use a pew envelope and mark it for Platoon Fund Postage.

Open Letter to the Congregation
March 2008

I've been very busy, nothing really exciting but it has kept me a bit out of the loop. Thank you so much for you packages (we received two today). I saw that you sent the spices, these will be a great help to our cooks out in the field and subsequently to the guys they feed. Nothing really big right now, my wife and I just celebrated our 10 month anniversary (we're rookies but we're really excited about it). She's doing well, but obviously this is hard on her. I think this is just a tough time in the deployment because we're so far from the beginning and the end but despite the deployment we're actually doing very well. As for now I don't really have a lot of requests, more spices would be great. As I said anything to improve the food we're able to feed to the other Soldiers is always a plus.

Again, thank you for everything you're doing. I can't tell you what an impact on our morale your packages and well wishes are. Thank you for your prayers and I will try to keep my emails a little more frequent.

Very Respectfully,
Reed Brown

Support our troops in Iraq by providing the following items: 

About Platoon Partners:

Platoon Partners is an outreach project of the Concordville-Chadds Ford Rotary Club designed to provide the United States troops in Iraq with small items including but not limited to toiletries, light entertainment, personal supplies, and communication facilities on a monthly basis for as long as the war in Iraq lasts. Since there is a large number of U.S. personnel in Iraq the distribution of donated items will be by platoon. With the help of the military leadership, email contacts on the ground will be made available so that donating individuals and institutions will have a direct line of communication. This will insure that items sent are specific to the needs of the assigned platoon. The Concordville – Chadds Ford Rotary Club will manage the contact information and follow-up.

This project is much larger than one Rotary Club or other institution can handle. Therefore, other clubs, institutions companies and individuals are encouraged to take on the responsibility of supporting a platoon. The Concordville – Chadds Ford Rotary Club will spread the word and provide encouragement to all interested parties.

On a monthly basis, participating sponsors will mail their packages to their assigned unit. There will be a general delivery address for surplus donations. The cost of mailing will, in most cases, be borne by the sponsor of a platoon. If mailing costs preclude participation, application for financial assistance should be made to the Rotary Club of Concordville – Chadds Ford. To help defray the cost of mailing packages and to support this project, individuals and institutions are encouraged to make financial donations to the Concordville Rotary Foundation, a 501 C3.

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Last modified: August 24, 2008