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CPO Jeffrey P. Shannon
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CPO Jeffrey P. Shannon
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Sailor's Title: Chief
APO/FPO: APO AE (Note 1*)
Added here: 18 September 2005
End date: 13 Jan 2006 (Note 3*)
Contact for approx number of Males: 5, Females: 3 (Note 5*)
Unit is from: Composite Unit (Note 6*)
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05 Feb 2006:
Wow, time really flies when you’re busy! Down to three months to go! We all really appreciated the cards, letters and care packages over the holidays. Everyone put on a few pounds, if you want to use that as a fair measure of the care packages. We’ve been so busy over the past several months, that there isn’t much time to do anything besides work and sleep. Maybe too much of the former and not enough of the latter, but we’ll get over it. But as I mentioned, the days go by pretty quickly and before long, we’ll be heading home. For the most part, not much has changed back home. But a number of our group are from the Gulf Coast area and don’t really know what to expect. One of my Shipmates from the New Orleans area was hoping to hit his favorite restaurant when he got back, only to find out that it was severely damage from Katrina and wouldn’t be open for some time. Everyone has a certain place they want to visit, or eat at, already picked out. So far nobody is looking forward to hitting a buffet. Can’t say I blame them, we wait in line three meals a day as it is. I think one of the things we miss the most beside the freedom to come and go as we please, is greenery. We are soooooo tired of beige! We have quite a few trees on the base, but the ground is sand. One of the guys got a hold of some grass seed and is going to grow a little patch. We all had a good laugh when he said he was looking for a lawn mower. He scaled back the size of the patch after he realized there are no mowers in Kuwait and he’d have to resort to using scissors. Again, thank you all for making us feel so special. It truly is an honor to serve you. ETC J.P. Shannon USN
S-2
Port Group Charlie
17 Dec 2005
 Well, things have finally settled down and no more moving is to be expected. We really want to thank all of you patriotic Americans for making us feel so special! The response has been remarkable. So remarkable, in fact, we need to ask you to hold off on the Vitamins and supplements. We've literally been bombarded with care packages full of them. Between relatives sending vitamins in and the generosity of you folks, I think we'll make it through the remainder of our deployment with some to spare.
Thanksgiving went well. We had a traditional Thankgiving dinner with all of the trimmings. We even had Eggnog...minus the alcohol of course! After dinner, I sent the crew home, well to our home here, and gave them the night off. It was going to be a slow night anyway, and they deserved a break. I've attached a photo with about half the crew, the rest are a bit camera shy.
Again, thank you for all of the prayers, good wishes, Christmas Cards and letters! We truly appreciate each and every one of them!
Jeffrey P. Shannon
ETC USN
08 Nov 2005
We have been very busy indeed and now things are stabilizing. We've been undergoining training for our mission and it's been quite intense. Now that we've completed the transition and have replaced the previous command, I should be able to provide regular updates.
To those that have sent my crew and I the care packages and letters of encouragement, we all truly thank you. I, or a member of my crew, has replied to all, so you shouldn't have been left wondering if we'd gotten anything from you. We've moved several times and now are living in a "permanent" barracks, we'll see. Hopefully that'll be the case as it can get rather frustrating to be moving every couple of weeks along with a 12 hour shift. But they promise not to move now for the duration and everyone should be able to get back to a routine.
My folks still love to get cards and letter, so please keep them coming. As for the packages, they've been real morale boosters. A sense of "home" in every box has been a true Godsend and we truly appreciate all of the efforts put forth for us.
Thanks again to all of you!
Jeffrey Shannon ETC USN
18 Sep 2005
We are currently living in buildings with 220V. There is self serve laundry facilities so detergent and fabric softener sheet would be welcome. There is limited exchange facilities and vitamins, C and multi in particular, seem to be in short supply. For the ladies, they're requesting shower gels, unscented Ban roll on and white chocolate. We've been advised to stock up on things like chocolate in the cooler winter months as it melts any other time. Sugar free candy and ground decaf coffee is also non existant here. Goldfish crackers and pretzels also seem to be in demand, although we have several Low Carb followers that would like equal footing. The Low Carb snack bars and drink mixes would be quite welcome. The Crystal Light drink mix tubes for the water bottle are also being requested. I haven't had any requests for clothing items, although for fun Hawaiian shirts are popular when not on duty. Sizes ranging from Medium to XXL. We've just recently got in theater and may come up with a longer list later.
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Note 7.): Updated APO/FPO/DPO mailing restrictions> courtesy of Oconus.com (gone now)
(Note: About Restriction "U2": "U2 - Limited to First Class Letters", Box "R" is for retired personnel that live overseas and are still authorized an APO/FPO box. Their address will be something like Box 3345R. Doubt you will see anything like that in Afghanistan or Iraq or ...)(Please Note: Sometime in August 2013, Oconus.com changed the code on their page and our form doesn't work with them anymore, so a link to their page is the best we can do, sorry.)
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