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CH Brandon S. Harding
- U. S. Navy -
Iraq
CH Brandon S. Harding
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(This address has been requested 3 times.) (NOTE **)
Sailor's Title: Chaplain
APO/FPO: FPO AP (Note 1*)
Added here: 15 August 2008
End date: 30 Dec 2008 (Note 3*)
Contact for approx number of Males: 500, Females: 10 (Note 5*)
Unit is from: Hawaii (Note 6*)
We welcome Chaplain Harding back!! His old page is HERE

13 Jan 2009:

Our mailing cut off date has been extended until February 1st, 2009. As long as packages are in the system prior to that date we will get them here in Iraq prior to leaving.

As the raining season is upong us, more people are stopping by the Lava Java for something warm to drink. Stir Sticks, Fu Fu Creamers & Large Coffee filters conitnue to be our main need. Also, I'm sure the Marines would appreciate some hand warmers.

Thanks again for all your support.

Blessings,

Chaplain Brandon S. Harding

31 Dec 2008
Thankfully our deployment is winding down. Our mail will be turned off sometime in early February. Any packages that are sent to us need to be mailed by January 15th.

As we will not be able to get any mail for about 3-4 weeks prior to leaving we would like to get stocked up on a couple of items. Namely coffee creamers & stir sticks. Also, we are still in need of the 3.5 inch DVDs for our reading program.

Additionally, we will be running a Marathon and a Half Marathon on February 14th. We are calling it the “Heartbreaker”. It would be great to have some prizes to give to the winners.

We continue to ask for your prayers. We lost a Marine on 21 December, LCpl Thomas Reilly Jr. He was killed in action against enemy forces.

Blessings,

Chaplain Brandon S. Harding

18 Dec 2008

Well, Christmas is almost upon us. We are doing our best to get into the Christmas Spirit. Many Marines and Sailors have decorated their rooms and work spaces. Along “company row” at Camp the medical troops have a giant Snow Globe and Santa. I have been blaring Christmas music with my outdoor sound system. Packages from home have been coming in like the winter surf on the North Shore. The support we are receiving is amazing.

Our hearts ache at the thought of being away from our loved ones during this sacred time of year. They are always in our thoughts and prayers. We are doing our best to stay focused on the mission and finishing the job here so that we can all return home. The Humanitarian Assistance project of giving out clothes and shoes has been a smashing success. We have received tons (literally) of items to pass out. We have held a couple of events and the Iraqis have been so grateful. It warmed our hearts to see the smiles on the children’s faces as they tried on a new pairs shoes. Seeing the poverty here and how excited a child gets by receiving a new pair of shoes is humbling.

Recently I went to a poor village to meet with one of the local leaders to discuss ways we could help. As we walked across the village, it was evident that these people were in the strangle hold of poverty. In this particular place, there was no running water, power scarce, and the nearest medical clinic miles away. The children walk 4 miles to attend school. It was a powerful reminder of all of the blessings that we have in our lives.

I have witnessed spectacular improvement in the lives of the Iraq people over the course of my deployments here. They are beginning to enjoy real peace and freedom. That freedom came at a great cost, in lives of many Marines & Sailors, Soldiers, and Airmen. During this Christmas Season we have great reason to rejoice and hope and pray that peace will continue.

Blessings,

Chaplain Brandon S. Harding

03 Nov 2008

Thank you so much for the support. Our Coffee House is a huge success. Now that the weather has turned a little colder we are getting more and more traffic. The main item we continually run out of is “fu-fu” coffee creamer. The stuff goes quick.

We recently constructed an outdoor movie theater. While we have plenty of VHS tapes, it would be nice to get a few recent releases of DVDs for our movie night.

With the holidays approaching your support means more than ever. Knowing we have great support back home helps take away some of the heartache we feel in being away from our families.   

I have one request. We are running out of blank mini-DVDs. They are for our reading program, where Marines read stories to their children. The discs are called mini-DVD-R. They are 30 minute discs. If you could send us some that would be great.

Have a very Merry Christmas!!

Blessings,

Chaplain Brandon S. Harding
1ST BN 3D MARINES

16 Oct 2008
The support has been fabulous. We have found a supplier of hot chocolate, so we no longer need any of that. Our coffee house seems to be doing well. It looks like we will have enough coffee and other drinks to last us several months. “fu-fu” creamer is always in high demand. We seem to run out of that quickly.

As the Holidays approach it would be nice to get some phone cards to hand out to the Marines so they could call home for free. As previously posted holiday decorations would be fabulous.

We are working on a service project over here. If you would like to get involved that would be great. If you aren’t interested that is okay too.

This project involves helping the children of Iraq. The area where I am located is mostly rural farm land and is very poor. This area was also exposed to brutal violence by Al Qaeda in Iraq. They would terrorize the families and torture and kill those who cooperated with the Marines. Thankfully that era has passed, but the scars remain.

Anyway, one of the primary needs for the children here are shoes. Many do not have shoes and the ones who do only have cheap sandals. Those are fine during the hot summer months, but not for the winter. Believe it or not it does get relatively cold here in the winter, 30s-40s. Also, the children do not have much by the way of jackets or coats. So, if you have items you would like to send please do so. If you would like to enlist church, work, or other groups to help collect items and send them over that would be great.

To get them here by mid- December they would need to be shipped prior to Thanksgiving. Every year the military postal system gets flooded with packages around the holidays, which slows delivery down. So the sooner they are shipped the more likely they would get here on time.

This is my third trip over here and each time it is heart breaking to see the conditions the children live in. They have been exposed to so much violence. If we are going to have any lasting positive effect on this country we have to help the children in any way we can.

Thanks again for all your help. We truly do appreciate it.

Blessings,

Chaplain Brandon S. Harding

07 Oct 2008
The support we have received has been tremendous. We now have a more than enough books to get us through the deployment. For those of you that have sent books, thank you, thank you. We are continuing to collect VHS tapes. If we have duplicate copies we send those out to our outlying positions. For our coffee house, right now we have sufficient coffee, what we continue to run out of is creamer, especially the “fu-fu” kind, i.e. hazelnut, amaretto, French vanilla, etc. We also have plenty of Tea. What we may need more of is Hot Cocoa, once the weather gets cooler. Thanks again for all your support. I continue to be humbled by the generosity that is shown to us.

As the Christmas Season approaches we would love to get some decorations sent over to decorate our small chapel and coffee house.

Blessings,

Chaplain Brandon S. Harding

24 Sep 2008
Our Library/Coffee/Movie house is coming along great. Thank you for all of the movies, books and coffee items. We will always need more coffee & supplies. We are almost at our saturation point with books. We can still use VHS tapes as we have other groups within our unit that have VHS players. We will send them the extras we get.

Most Marines are huge sports fans. With College Football and the NFL now in full swing, any kind of sports memorabilia that we could hang in our coffee house would be great. We are usually up very late in Saturday night and Sunday morning watching college games.   

Blessings,

Chaplain Brandon S. Harding

13 Sep 2008
Our Coffee House/Movie Lounge/Library is coming along very nicely. Thank you for all the items that have been sent. We could still use more VHS tapes, if you have old ones you are not watching.

Also, we have an MWR computer lounge right next door where Marines are able to email their families. We would like to add webcams to the computers. We need a total of 20. They don’t have to be the “top of the line” just the basic ones will do fine.

Finally, if you send something to us please include your email in your correspondence. That way we can quickly communicate to you that we have received what you sent and say thanks.

05 Sep 2008

Here are a couple of photos of the Coffee House we have started. Since we are from Hawaii we decided to call it "Lava Java Café & Movie Lounge".

03 Sep 2008
We have a movie lounge set up and are requesting used VHS tapes. VHS tapes are easier to deal with because they don’t get “borrowed”.

Blessings,

Chaplain Brandon S. Harding

27 Aug 2008
We need large self dispensing thermoses to assist in coffee distribution. Also, small furniture items that could be easily mailed like lamps that would add to the atmosphere of the coffee house. If anyone has some old drapes or curtains that are in good condition we could put those to good use as well.

Blessings,

Chaplain Brandon S. Harding

15 Aug 2008
I'm the battalion chaplain for 1st Battalion 3D Marines. We are based out of Kaneohe Bay Hawaii. Many men from our unit were here last year in Haditha. Prior to that in Afghanistan and prior to that in the infamous "battle of Fallujah". Most Marines here have AC and electricity. Also they have access to refrigerators and microwaves.

Currently the main needs are reading materials. I'm in the process of setting up a library and we have zero books. Also, in conjunction with the library we are setting up a coffee house. So donations of coffee and anything coffee related, to include coffee makers is needed.

Your contributions are greatly appreciated.

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