ok, i am wanting to be a pen pal to the guys over seas in the army, how can i contact any of them. website??
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Thank you so much for your care and concern.  Please know that anything you do for a soldier will be greatly appreciated.  Go to www.AnySoldier.com.  You will find info there about what you can do.
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First\nThank you for doing this!!!! We currently sponsor 5 groups of soldiers across afghanistan and Iraq.\n\nwww.anysoldier.com\n\nits the best site we found for being able to search and read descriptions etc.. covers ALL branches of soldier overseas\n\nNow for mailing.. we are pro;s at this now\n\nNo mailing of wax items, crayons or chocolate anything between May and Nov\n\nIt melts and you get liquid pacakges\n\nSoldiers are told not to eat homebaked  or unwrapped items.. so if you send these you take a good chance on having them not eaten.\n\nOur groups are 1/2 way through deployment and we know them now and will be seing homemade xmas foods... but they will take now and would not have 6 mos ago before they knew us.\n\nMost soldiers have some way to email.. some have laptops with daily access others dont have reg access... Include and email address with your packages,, many will email back..\n\nWe love our emails and pictures\n\nDo not send stamps as mail for them is free to send out\n\nDVD's unless  a soldier specifically asks for it are a waste of time as they sell bootleg copies over there for 1.00 new releases!  The Black market  is alive and well in Iraq!\n\nEach soldier will put items out on the site they would like etc... We avoid the long lists or lists with silly items.... The bottom line is... they are thrilled with just letters  , and many dont get mail.\n\nWe look for FOB's Forward operating bases or other more remote soldiers over ones on reg bases... these are the guys who dont have access to PX's ( stores) etc...\n\nMOST have chow halls called KBR's but some dont... \n\nThings we send to our guys are Microwaves stuff anf popcorn.. we also tape to DVD weekly shows they are missing like CSI and NCIS they like those.. we send Hard candy  , does nto melt and can be passed out to local kids..\nwe send Pnut butter, crackers, Powdered drink mixes like gatorade, T pastes, soaps,Jerky,\nChex mix, Pringles as they dont get crushed like a bag would, etc...Cookies\n\nOK so for mailing..... Dont mix food and toiletries.... even if you put stuff in baggies the food will taste like soap\n\nWe have mailed t paste with food though put it in ziplocs\nDont mail anything in a glass jar or that can break.... If it can leak, explode or break... IT WILL\n\nSo how much does it cost to mail???????\nWell you dont pay shippin to Iraq!\n\nYou pay shipping costs from where ever you live to NY. In NY it is handed off to the Military Postal system and they fly it overseas,, then it is sorted again by the APO or location and trtucked off to those places as soon as they can safely get it there.\n\nOur experience is ... about 3 weeks til arrival ..\nThere are 2 types of  ways to mail a package at the post office.. Priority and SAM ( space Avail Mail)  SAM is cheaper but can take longer to get to the soldiers.. SAM means once the plane is full and all 1st priority mail is loaded they shove any SAM mail in that will fit ...\nThe Post office will tell you it will never get to the soldier if you send SAM but thats not true...\nSAM mail is cheaper to send and good if its heavy or you can wait  for it to go... it will get to th em.. we have sent both ways... and sincec most of our guys only get mail runs every 2-3 weeks it did not matter.\n\nWhen you pack it ,,make sure you put stuff on the slip..if for soe reason you DO send DVD's DONT list it on the packing slip.. makes your box a target to get stolen!  If you ask post ofice about this they will say you HAVE to list it... so dont ask.. they dont go through the boxes and if you list it it may not get there... this is advice right from the soldiers.. they know.\n\n ALso there will be a box that says if package is undeliverable what do yu want done?? Instead of putting  our return in there to get it back.. we put another Units Address on there so if hte unit we were sending to is gone or cant be found it goes to another one!\n\n   ALso pack your items in plain cardboard or a pos
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http://www.marines.com/page/usmc.jsp?flashRedirect=true\n\nIf that link does not work, although it should. Go to http://www.marines.com then in the upper right hand corner, click on the 'Request More Information' tab. It will allow you to email someone at the other end of the server. :)
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Try military.com under community (I think) there is a buddy finder option. If they are singed up you can find them.
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http://www.anysoldier.com/\n\nits a good thing for him to do, if I was over there I would love to get mail from someone like him.
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there are many websites that help you find a friend, anysoldier.com is one operationac.com is one
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I am in the army and i will contact him thro AKO (army only email) if u email me.  I will tell him to contact you when u leave your email me.  Thank and have a good day.
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Try looking on dice.com, that's where I always go.   If this is a recruiter, then nice try, you're not getting my email address.
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I am in the Navy and can give it a try. Send me his/her full name and I'll get back to you. \n\njdnemmer@yahoo.com
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No - but I sure write alot from the sandbox.  Do you?\n\nThanks for asking though and many of the guys and gals over here would like some loving and thoughtfully written letters.  You can send them address:  TO ANY UNITED STATES\n                                          SERVICE  MEMBER\n                                           SERVING IN OIF OR AFGANISTAN\n\nOr contact any Military installation and they should be able to get you the APO address.\n\nAs you can pretty well guess they don't all have this type of media so snail mail will work.\n\nTHANKS AGAIN AND GOD BLESS YOU\n\nJust their old Sarg!
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Contacting the army may give you a forwarding address, or you could hire a private detective however without any more information that may be a dead end.  First thing i'd try is the Army.
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If you want to correspond with American soldiers deployed overseas, go to this website to find soldiers to send stuff to.
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There are hundreds of places.  Just do a search on Pen Pals, etc. and they will all come up for you to choose.
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go online to any chat room that is near a military base.  There will be plenty of guys looking.  As for penpals, stay away from the ones that are to support the troops, since those are moral builders, not dating hot lines.
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sorry i cant give my address already to many strangers got due to my picture flying through the internet. but try to find a friend that happens to be a soldier near by his AKO acct has acces to the information you request. Hopefully he/she is willing to help you. the army is a big place so unless you know what unit he went to its like finding a needle in a stack of needles.I used to see this all the time in Bragg, people would ask for their son/brother etc if we know them . And we keep telling them without their unit or MOS we cant narrow down anything due to our post being the size of a city.
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army, navy, marines what  padricdillon21@yahoo.com
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Good for you. \nThe Army's website has a lot of great ideas and good links, check out:\nhttp://www4.army.mil/ocpa/tooursoldiers/\nhttp://www.lettersfromhomeprogram.org/\nhttp://www4.army.mil/outreach/support/\n\nThey have letter writing, e-mail writing, and gift giving programs.