THANK YOU MESSAGES

April 2017 - Project Mail Call (Email Responses to Packages and Letters)

I received care packages today and inside was a letter from Alex. Thank you for writing to us and thank your grandfather for his selfless sacrifice and service to our country. Your letter and the feelings you expressed truly mean a lot to us. I hope that you are doing well in school and that you follow your dreams no matter what gets in the way. Thank you so much for being apart of the package and bringing joy to the Marines and me out here in Norway. The package came with so many great items that the Marines were fighting over what they wanted. haha. This really boosted our spirits and means a lot to us. Deployments can be tough but we feel so much better when kind people, like yourselves, think of us. Thank you for all the prayers and support. I wish you nothing but success at what ever you do. --- Sincerely, Danny and the Marines from V12 Law Enforcement Detachment - Norway

Dear Ava, Thanks you very much for the care package and letter it really made my day. The items are going to be very useful.

Well like you, I like talking too. I like to ride horse, garden, cook, cross stich, camping, I love going to the MN Renaissance festival. Here I color, watch movies on my computer, cross stich and spend time with soldier here. There a lot of NATO Soldiers so it is fun to learn all about them.

Your Thanks you means a lot, its hard being away from family and friends. --- Thanks, Kim SFC, PBO - Task Force WagonMaster - Bagram, Afghanistan

I just wanted to send a quick note to say thank you for the wonderful care package! Im sure many people put time and effort and it is much appreciated. Just to give you some insight of who/what you supported...We are a deployed medical facility with approx. 20 members ranging from medics, to doc, to supply and systems administrators. The majority of us are Airforce but we do have a few army brothers and sisters that work with us as well. We thank you again for all the support you have shown!!!! --- SSgt Lacie L.

March 2017 - Project Mail Call

They did such a nice job yesterday! Everything looks very festive!! Thanks a ton!!

Kristin C. Moffett

School Counselor

Powers Ferry Elementary School

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February 2010 – POWERS FERRY SCIENCE NIGHT

Thank you for helping out with Science Night! As always, the Walton students were friendly, helpful, and competent. I hope everyone had a good time, because I know that the Powers Ferry families definitely did!

Thanks so much for your help--- Mrs. Hellman, Powers Ferry Volunteer Coordinator

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February 2010 – BRUMBY CHILI COOK OFF NIGHT

The students were so much help! Thank you for sending them, and please thank them for me for all of their hard work!

Thank you,

Amy Moss

Kindergarten Teacher

Brumby Elementary

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February 2010 – PROJECT MAIL CALL

Thank you for packing boxes for Project Mail Call this afternoon. While many people were warming up to a night of Super Bowl activities, you volunteered to pack care boxes for the U.S. military serving in harm's way. You packed 125 pounds of snacks, food staples, toiletries, sheets, blankets and sports equipment for 6 soldier units in Afghanistan and Iraq. Besides school supplies and toys, you also packed a large 24-pound box of beanie babies for an Army unit supporting Afghan children.

Thank you for your expert packing and for your donation that exceeded the mailing costs. We also thank you for the hundreds of packets of batteries you packaged by hand, and the professional letters you wrote for each packet. This was your group's second time to package batteries and your second time to pack boxes, and we really appreciate your support.

Your session brought the total pounds packed in 112 packing sessions over the past 4 years to 40,497 pounds; over 20 tons. Volunteers of Project Mail Call have now packed and mailed 2,558 boxes to our military in 18 countries. The custom-packed boxes were mailed to 2,103 military units representing 71,215 military personnel in Afghanistan, Bahrain, Columbia, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, The Philippines, Qatar, Serbia, and the United Arab Emirates.

Over the past four years, 2,330 volunteers have packed boxes, and 6,751 people have written letters that were included in the boxes.

You can check the following website for a description of your packing session:

http://ettel.typepad.com/pmc2010sessions/

Mary and Ed Ettel

http://projectmailcall.com

To: waltonco@hotmail.com

Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:40:46 +0100

Dear Sarah and Sneha,

First off I want to thank you for your support and generosity. I can't imagine what it is like to just blindly send out packages to some guys in the middle of nowhere and hope that they get it. I try to make a point to get an email out to everybody that supports us. I also offer to keep in touch with info and updates on the guys you are supporting. Its the least I can do to show you guys we are thankful for you guys back home. We have internet because we all pitched in and bought this dish so we could have a way of talking to our friends and family. Our COP (Combat Outpost) doesn't have things like phones or internet or laundry. We did have showers but the last cold snap froze the tanks. When we got them thawed out we found the pipes and pumps had all busted so it has been a few weeks since we had our last shower. The good news is yesterday we finally got the pipes fixed and now we don't smell as bad. You know its the little things in life that matter like taking a shower.

Well I guess I should tell you a little about us. We are 3rd Platoon Charlie Company 1st battalion 503rd Infantry of the famed 173rd Airborne Infantry Brigade based out of Vicenza. I know that seems like alot of Army info but what it breaks down to is we are a Platoon of about 40 guys and I am their Platoon Sergeant and the oldest of the group so they call me dad. We are all paratroopers so we are a little messed up in the head. Willingly jumping out of airplanes takes a special kind of person. We are based out of Vicenza, Italy but most of us just call it the place where we keep our stuff as we never seem to be there long enough to enjoy it. We are here on a year long deployment to Afghanistan. We operate out of small outposts in the mountains so you can imagine that we get a little tired and beat up out here.

I am more than happy to keep in contact as it is always nice to hear from our countrymen and women back in the states. It is a nice distraction from the things over here.

V/R

Joel

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February 2010 – BRUMBY ELEMENTARY VALENTINE CRAFT KITS

Thank you so much. We received the craft kits yesterday afternoon and they have already been distributed to the Kindergarten and first grade students.

We appreciate all you do for our kids. It will make this day a little more special.

Thanks again,

Audra H. L. Lantrip, Ed.S

Kindergarten Teacher

Brumby Elementary School

"A child may forget what you teach him, but he will never forget how you treat him."

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January 2010 – POWERS FERRY TEACHER APPRECIATION LUNCHEON

Hello WCO,

I just wanted to let you know that our staff members truly enjoyed the lunch that you prepared for us today!! I have heard rave reviews about the chicken salad and the soup and I just wanted to let you know that everything that was prepared was absolutely fabulous!!! Thanks again for everything you have done to make our faculty feel appreciated!

Aimee L. Pierre

School Counselor

Powers Ferry Elementary

"Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it."~Marian Wright Edelman

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November 2009 – Powers Ferry International Night

Hi Everyone,

I just wanted to send a big thank you to all our wonderful International Night volunteers! By all accounts, the evening was a great success, and the volunteers were a huge part of that success. All your willing, helpful hands made a difference in many ways. Thank you for giving of your time to be a part of this special evening at Powers Ferry.

Julie Hellman

Powers Ferry Volunteer Coordinator

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October 2009 – SOPE CREEK EVENT – Our students volunteered as individuals.

I just wanted to thank you for posting this volunteer opportunity with Walton PTSA Community Outreach. We had about 20 students contact us about volunteering. They did a wonderful job! I was especially impressed by the way they made sure that the elementary school kids stayed safe -- we even had a couple of Walton students climb onto/into the inflatables to keep everything in order. Even the owner of Jump & Slide, the company that provided the inflatables and carnival games, mentioned to me what a good job the Walton volunteers did!

Thanks again, and we will contact you for Octoberfest 2010!

Sope Creek Elementary School PTA

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October 2009 - POWERS FERRY COSTUME BALL

Kyle,

Many, many thanks to you and all the Walton CO members for helping out at the Costume Ball yesterday. Powers Ferry could never put on an event of that magnitude without the help of all the high school volunteers. As always, the Walton CO students were reliable, enthusiastic, and helpful. You were a wonderful supervisor, making sure that all the little details were taken care of and seeing that everything ran smoothly. I hope everyone had fun and enjoyed themselves, because the Powers Ferry families certainly did! –

Mrs. Hellman

Powers Ferry Volunteer Coordinator

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Subject: Thank you! (UNCLASSIFIED)

Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 15:59:23 +0300

To: waltonCO@hotmail.com

Dear Friends,

Thank you for your support of the Soldiers of Alpha Company, 72d Signal

Battalion. Your generous donations are greatly appreciated and we will

ensure that the goodies are distributed to our Soldiers across Iraq and

in the most remote locations. Mail is a huge morale boost for the

troops and always brings a smile!

The Alpha Company Renegades from 72d Signal Battalion are deployed from

our home station in Mannheim Germany in support of Operation Iraqi

Freedom. Headquartered in Saddam's hometown of Tikrit, our mission is

to provide tactical and strategic voice and data communications to the

warfighter across the theatre of operations. Our ranks are filled with

120 of the finest Soldiers in the Army and we have teams on 14 remote

sites.

The holidays will be special thanks to the thoughtfulness and efforts of

great folks like you. Your generosity and patriotism are greatly

appreciated and make us proud to serve this great country. May God

bless you and yours this holiday and all the best in the New Year!

V/R

CPT Gunther

CDR, A/72d ESB

COB Speicher

Once a Renegade, Always a Renegade!

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Subject: Thank you

Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 13:46:24 +0430

To: waltonco@hotmail.com

Good Morning all,

I wanted to thank you for all the items that you sent to us here in

Afghanistan. I see you all are from Marietta, Ga. I was stationed at FT

Benning, GA prior to my deployment and I will return their in Nov when I

come home. I also want to thank you for your prayers, I believe prayer

is the most important thing anyone can do for us here. I have enclosed a

few pictures. God Bless

v/r

1SG Smith, Richard

"Big Tank"

1st Zone ABP ETT NCOIC

Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:35:27 +0300

To: waltonco@hotmail.com

Dear Blake and Lena,

I want to start off by saying how grateful we are for you sending the care package. Thank you so much. We loved what you sent, it is perfect for us.

As you know we work at a helicopter squadron. The squadron is broken down into shops. We work out of the Tool Room shop. Here in tool room it’s broken down even more to the type of job we do. I and Juan Aguayo are GSE mechanics. GSE stands for ground support equipment. We deal with all the equipment used to support the aircraft. We are pretty much diesel engine mechanics and a little more. Eddie Ortiz’s job is IMRL. He takes care of all the test equipment that they use to test and troubleshoot the helicopter. William Elka and our newest Marine here Steven Wilcox are in charge of all the tools that are needed to fix the aircraft. We all one way or another work with each other to make sure all of the helicopter maintainers have what they need to fix and troubleshoot the CH-53E helicopter. From us the maintainers work on the aircraft and the officers fly the aircraft for the many missions our squadron is tasked. I hope it’s a little clearer on what we do out here.

Again thanks for everything you do. God Bless you and your Family.

Sincerely,

SGT Coronado and Co.

HMH-361

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March 2009 – PROJECT MAIL CALL

Walton PTSA Community Outreach Club Packing Session March 22, 2009

Thank you for packing boxes yesterday for the U.S. military serving overseas.

You did a great job packing what the military units were asking for. You packed 13 boxes, weighing a total of 159 pounds. The boxes are now on their way to the 13 military units, which contain 541 soldiers, Marines and airmen based in Afghanistan, Iraq and Qatar.

As of today, volunteers of Project Mail Call have packed and mailed 1,940 boxes weighing 30,518 pounds. The boxes were mailed to 1,488 military units representing 52,369 military personnel in Afghanistan, Bahrain, Columbia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, The Philippines, Qatar, Serbia, and the United Arab Emirates. Over the past three years, 1,672 volunteers have packed boxes, and 3,704 people have written letters.

Thank you again for showing your love and support to the U.S. military by participating in this event.

A brief description of the packing session and photos have been posted on the mission website: http://projectmailcall.com

Mary and Ed Ettel

"Like cold water to a weary soul, is good news from a distant land." Proverbs 25:25

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FEBRUARY 2009 - Brumby Chili Cook-Off

Thank you so much for your help on our Chili Cook off night. It is nice to know that a helping hand is around the corner. ~ Audra Lantrip, Brumby Teacher

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