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Zak (kochanut),
I received 5 flags in the mail today. Thanks for getting them for the guys. I will be sending the individuals who received a flag and certificate in this shipment a PM either tonight or tomorrow!!! We will have to figure out how to get them to you too!!!
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first, have you been tossing back grandpas cough syrup again? your post really dident make any sense to me.
second, heres how i spent my saturday. i took the shop rod (the red spinning rod and reel someone donated to us) and hit up the palace lake, caught 12 carp in less the 20 minutes, biggest being 14 pounds, man was that fun. sun was beating down on me and it was already 104F at 0815. figured it was time to head back to the hooch.
after i cleaned the smell of carp off me (does it ever come off) i went to the Camp XXXXX post office with all of my recipets from sending those boxes out. after sitting for almost three hours the guy came back and said they had made it to your house last week. what a bunch of bull i said, check again. the guy disappears for another hour and comes back and says he looked up the worng tracking number. all the boxes i have sent to you so far have made it to UT, tats all his screen showed.
i was worried as hell because i sent dad a shirt and it made it to him in less then a week. then your box, which was 5 times the size of any i sent to you made it here in what... 5 days? he had no explination as to why it took so ling and why some ar stilol in transit.
so i decided i would WALK to Baghdad Int. Airport. i realized that was one of the dumbest things i had done since i have been here once i was about half way there. it was 122F outside, i had already gone through 140 ounces of water, and hadent had to wizz once. i was finally able to hitch a ride almost the rest of the way their on a Stryker. i got to BIAP and went to see the man himself, the postmasted for VBC (Victory Base Compund) at the airport and ask why it takes so long to send but not recieve packages. i later learned a phone call would have saved me 9 hours of my only day off, anyway, he says it has nothing to do with influx of outgoing or incomming mail here. every box he recives is pallatized and sent off that same day. its when it gets to the APO (which i believe is baltimore) is where the hold up starts for out going. palates of mail will sit for over a week before they are finally orginized and sent out.
needless to say i was worried as hell about weather or not you recieved the boxes i sent you. nough so that i walked my fat a$$ through the buring heat just to find out every box i have sent you so far is at least in the states with a few in UT somewhere. keep checking your mail, you should be recieveing a few more here shirtly. i had 10 flown yesterday for more people and those will be sent out today.
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PM's have been sent out to those 5 that I received flags for in this shipment from kochanut. If you did not receive a PM, please be patient as Zak is getting these flags flown and certificates printed as fast as he can.
Zak, good to hear you are putting some of the gear to good use. I have another box for you from bigbassaholic that I am going to send out after the Willard Tourney since there are a couple people that have some more stuff to give to me on that day.
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This forum is not for a 2 way conversation please keep that to PM's
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I'm fine now I was in the Emergency room Sat night for a few hours getting cut up.
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