30 Jan 2008:
Again, thank you to everyone who thought of us during the holiday season and who continues to think of us!!!!!
In a few months we will start to re-deploy back home to the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. It has been an interesting tour and hopefully everyone’s loved ones, family members and friends will be home soon from their deployments.
We are continuing to post the items we miss from home for you to send on our webpage.
Just a quick reminder, unfortunately we have no females in our unit.
Items that are still appreciated are:
Any type of microwave foods, to include popcorn, ramen noodles, cup a soups, individual soups and stews etc etc.
Different types of cookies and Keebler crackers are always a crowd pleasers.
Cleaning items like Clorox Bleach Wipes are great also, you can imagine the dust over here.
Baby wipes/face wipes/toothbrushes/individual Kleenex packs are all still sought after.
Riverine Squadron TWO is based out of Little Creek Amphibious Base, from Norfolk, VA.
We sincerely hope all of you have a safe and happy new year!!!!!!
All the Best and Cheers,
ISC(SW/FPJ) Rocky Yoda
29 Dec 2007
We would like to thank all of you who put the time and effort in sending us care packages, especially during the holiday season!!!!!!!! We received over 250 packages for our Riverines and even had some left over to pass out to the Marines that are co-located with us. So you even sent tennis balls for the Marine K9 unit that is here also, the dogs loved them!!!
We are officially starting our countdown for our return to the U.S. on New Years Day!!!!!!! We are going to bump up our cutoff date for mailing packages to 01 Mar 08. This way we can fully concentrate on cleaning/packing up, conducting our turnover with our sister squadron Riverine Squadron Three, and coming come to our loved ones.
Until then we still appreciate and thank you for everything we are receiving for you. We will keep the list of items available for you to send on our webpage.
Just a quick reminder, unfortunately we have no females in our unit.
Items that are still very appreciated are:
Red Vines/Twislers
Any type of microwave foods, to include popcorn, ramen noodles, cup a soups, individual soups and stews etc etc.
Cookies are always a good thing, especially Girl Scout, they are in high demand and go very fast!!!!!
Cleaning items like Clorox Bleach Wipes are great also, you can imagine the dust over here.
We, Riverine Squadron TWO, are based out of Little Creek Amphibious Base, from Norfolk, VA.
We sincerely hope all of you have a safe and happy holiday season,
All the Best and Cheers,
ISC(SW/FPJ) Rocky Yoda
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying,
"Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?"
And I said, "Here am I. Send me!"
07 Nov 2007
Hello All, thank you again for your support. We are Riverine Squadron TWO deployed to Iraq. We are an all male unit of Riverines!!!!! Where we are stationed we have electricity with converters for 220 to 110, we do have laundry facilities (washers and dryers), microwaves, and fridges.
We have received two packages so far. The packages that you send will support our Riverines that do not regularly receive packages from home or do not have anyone at home to send them packages.
Food items that are sought after are:
Hard candy
Red vines (Twislers to some, this do not melt in the heat)
Any type of microwave foods
Powered drink mixes, individual sizes if possible.
And of course any type of cookies, especially Girl Scout, we all know the drive is about to start.
Unfortunately we know that some of you focus on females serving our country, but we have no females in our squadron.
Riverine Squadron TWO is based out of Little Creek Amphibious Base, from Norfolk, VA.
All the Best,
Cheers,
ISC(SW/FPJ) Rocky Yoda
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying,
"Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?"
And I said, "Here am I. Send me!"
12 Oct 2007
We have electicity with converters for 220 to 110.
We have washers and dryers.
We have microwaves, and fridges.
PAcakages will be distributed thoughout our whole command.
Food items: Hard candy, red vines (twislers, this do not melt in the heat), microwave foods, powered drink mixes, individual sizes if possible.
And of course any type of cookies, especially Girl Scout, we all know the drive is about to start.
We have no females in our squadron.
We are from Norfolk, VA.