Note: EO1 Michael F. Lyons was dropped from this list on 13 Dec 2008 due to 60 days of no contact.
14 Oct 2008:
Greetings from Iraq… First and Foremost I want to thank everyone who has been writing and sending packages. I have been trying to get a personal letters to everyone who has taken time to send us letters and packages.. From the bottom of our we thank you sending us letters and goodies. We have been off base for about month and this is my first my opportunity to update the website.
Over the past month we have been getting a lot accomplished. So that everyone is aware we are the Seabees and we have the capability to perform construction in times of uncertainty and while in a hostile country. The Seabee Birthday is March 5, 1942 shortly after Pearl Harbor was attacked. Which was one of the main reasons our organization was established, to perform construction during WWII. Well long story short we have been living up to our Motto “We build, we fight”. Not so much in the latter part of the Motto. Over the past month we have been busy upgrading Checkpoints were the Army is working and living from. This is big boost for the morale of the Army when we show up. The most recent upgrade we were involved with required us to install more than 40 AC units (in bedrooms), we added 12 showers (now they have 13), partitioned 15 rooms (Over 10,000 SqFt), improved the internal security, installed 3 generators and rewired nearly the whole building.
We are close to our halfway point for this deployment. This is a big boost for morale since we all miss our family and friends.
A special thanks to the following people who have started supporting and very special thanks to those who continue to support:
The nursing Staff from The Glens Falls Hospital at 3 West B.
Joe, Julie, Matt and Lauren
Joe and June
Diane from Florida
Octavia from Michigan
Paula H of MA (Nice job Red Sox)
Diane of Chestnut Hill (The coffee From Dunkin was awesome and boosted everyone’s spirits)
Bertha from troy
The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6196 (Queensbury NY)
You are not Support Group
Cynda Of Sugarland TX
Operation Till it Ends
Supermarkets of Cherry Hill, NJ
Lester of Carlsbad CA
Care Packages from Home
Thanks again for your support and we all appreciate your efforts, thoughts and prayers.
EO1 Michael Lyons
24 Aug 2008
Greetings from Iraq I would like to thank the following people for their contributions. We have received several packages and letters from some great people who have offered to write to people that have not been getting what they deserve.
Octavia
Barbara
The Hill Valley Womens Club
Tim and Diane
Ms. Wells
You are not alone Support Group
April and Jeff
Kathy and Les
VFW of Glens Falls
Adopt a Soldier program of Wilton NY
To give you an update we have completed our first month and have several more to go. The days have been hot and dry. The work has been plentiful and we are staying busy. We had several raindrops, fall the other day. The good news is that we are over the hump for august which is the hottest time of the year and it should start to cool off soon (we are crossing our fingers).
08 Aug 2008
I am EO1 Michael Lyons and I am writing in representation of my platoon. On occasion we send our Seabees on dangerous missions, and they would love to have some snacks from home--oreo cookies, peanut butter rice crispy treats, treats in general that are not easy to come by here-- as well as personal hygiene items, for both men and woman (we have 4 women in our platoon). While still at base we have a microwave, and any of those microwavable treats( popcorn, dinty moore, chef boy ar dee) would be much appreciated. We also have a coffee maker and our guys are fond of the dunkin donuts coffee, but happy to drink a good cup of Joe,.
Being so far from loved ones is difficult on all our troops and we would all love to hear from home-- new friends and old alike. This can be done by letters and by sending calling cards so that we may contact those that are still at home.
We have at our disposal our own personal computers that allow us to play CD's and DVD's, and seeing some of the latest hits that have been released is a great treat when we can get them, there are not many movie theaters here in the dessert. We have access to a PS3 as well and love new (to us, old to you) reading material: magazines and books alike.
The USPS is offering a package of materials to help send stuff to soldiers:
The kit may be requested by calling 1-800-610-8734 (Packing Supply) and:
1.
Choose your language (1 is English, 2 is Spanish).
2.
Choose option 1 (it states it is for Express Mail service, Priority Mail or Global Express Guaranteed).
3.
When you reach a live agent, request CAREKIT04.
4.
Please allow 7-10 days for delivery.
and
Additionally, you can find guidelines for packing, addressing, and shipping items to U.S. troops at www.usps.com/supportingourtroops/.
Thank you all of the people back home that support us with kind thoughts and prayers as well as these wonderful gifts of care packages from home. It will really brighten a soldiers day.
07 Aug 2008
I am representing a platoon and we often send people out side of the wire. We are looking for snacks (Cookies oreos peanutbutter rice krispe treats) we are also looking for hygene items such as liquid soap, razors, scrunchies and deoderant. We are alos looking for calling cards so people can call home. We have females here and they are asking for lotions and female products.
We are looking for old magazines (popular mechincs, science computer car magazies) we have micrwave and would like microwavable snacks dinte moore, chef boy rdee (sorry about the spelling) we would also like coffee with all the condiments (dunkin doughnuts. Letters help people feel good.
We have the ability to watch movies on our time. so new releases are a big plus. We also have a PS3 that the younger troops are playing on. So any games for those are appreciated also. whom ever reads this thank you for taking time to help us out.
Respectfully
EO1 Lyons
ACB2 Det India
Thanks