Lt. Maness of Bandit Troop 1-10 CAV wrote this

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Five For Fighting Update
from Peter King at www.si.com

Heck of a job, people. You've now donated $147,000 to the "Five For Fighting'' cause ($5 per person toward sending the fighting men and woman of our military some recreation and video-game equipment through the USO2GO plan), and the thanks are rolling in from platoons at forward-operating bases -- small bases with men far removed from civilization, mostly -- in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"We recently started to receive the USO2GO packages,'' wrote a Lt. Maness of Bandit Troop 1-10 CAV, "and they have been an excellent morale boost to my troops. We are on a patrol base that is a long ways from a major installation, and the items you have sent us in terms of personal hygiene and athletic/entertainment have been great. They allow us to focus on the mission. I wanted to take a moment and say THANK YOU for your continued support.''

And Sgt. First Class Robbie A. Williams of FON Edge, Iraq, wrote: "We live on a small FOB that is self-sustaining, meaning that the life-support that we have we do it ourselves. No PX or anything. But the things that we have received from you and the USO members have made those things not matter. THANK YOU ALL.''



Think of it: $147,000 pays for the TV, video games, sports equipment and weights for the 135-soldier company of Mike McGuire, the longtime MMQB friend and Army First Sergeant, and for six more companies in Iraq and Afghanistan. You have personally outfitted seven companies of Our Finest with your generosity. If you know someone who would like to keep the donations coming, please pass along this link. All I want is $5 for our troops.

As an additional way to support the Five For Fighting campaign, the USO has created a virtual wall that we will share directly with Sgt. McGuire. If you'd like, please take a moment and offer a few words to let those men know that they're in our thoughts back here.

Clink on this link and send your best.

https://www.uso.org/donate/custom.aspx?id=1848


Thanks to all of you who responded so far. I've chosen Roanna Flowers of Austin, Texas, to represent the thousands who have given so far. Her words: "I am just so grateful to the work you and your men are doing, Sgt. McGuire, and for the work and determination and sacrifice of all men and women in uniform. I have followed your story from the first mention by Peter King in his MMQB. I was so excited that there was something I could do for you guys for a change. I jumped at it! I think about you and your men every day, and of those for which I have no name, no face to correspond. I wish you all the very best and give you my heartfelt thanks.'' Amen.

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