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CAPT Charles Nixon
- U. S. Navy -
Afghanistan
CAPT Charles Nixon
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(This address has been requested 0 times.) (NOTE **)
Sailor's Title: STP Physician
APO/FPO: FPO AE (Note 1*)
Added here: 10 March 2011
End date: 06 Jun 2011 (Note 3*)
Contact for approx number of Males: 9, Females: 0 (Note 5*)
Unit is from: North Carolina (Note 6*)

06 Jul 2011:
I would like to thank your organization for all the kindness we have been exposed to. Due to your website, we have been introduced to many caring patriots back home who have gone to rather impressive lengths to make our lives easier out here. My team and I have been awed by the incredible thoughtfulness of so many, none of whom know us. I have managed to contact the majority, and enjoyed the correspondence.

The needs of war are always changing, and one is involving my group. My team is no longer needed at its current location due to the success of the USMC counterinsurgency fight. We are getting redistributed throughout the region. We will return stateside within 2 months. I request that folks wishing to support our fighting forces mail to other representatives on the website, as my team and location is about to change, and I'm unsure how well the mail will catch up with me/us.

28 Jun 2011

Address Has Changed.
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24 Jun 2011

Address Has Changed.
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Navy Corpsmen celebrated their 113th anniversary...even at our dink outpost in Afghanistan. We managed to get a cake, which was ceremoniously cut and served with a fighting K-Bar!

18 Jun 2011
Thank you for your support.

28 Apr 2011

We continue to be impressed with the kindness of those visiting your website and bestowing gifts and letters upon us. The weather here is getting hot, currently running to the low 100's for highs, cooling to about 70F at night. The crew is managing good morale, in spite of the heat and mail delivery issues (we get drops 2-4 weeks apart...over 3 weeks currently).   

Regarding requested items, we are rather limited by USMC regulations. I can give no specifics, but the guys like high protein snacks and supplements, hard candy, and popcorn (in any form).   They also like multitools and knives, but these can get pricey. Towels and large heavy white, black, green or tan socks are also useful.

Attached is a photo of our patient care area, as the nurse and a couple of corpsmen prepare for a patient. Also there is a picture of a typical tent. Ours is similar, but there are more in it.

It is an honor us to be here in supporting the Marines and representing our country. Wishing all of you back home the best,

C. R. Nixon, CAPT, MC, USN

05 Apr 2011
Thanks for the service you provide. The response has been great, and my shipmates are very appreciative of the thoughtfulness and generosity of folks we don’t know. It is very heartwarming.

CAPT Charles Nixon

22 Mar 2011

Address Corrected.
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11 Mar 2011
I will be happy to send updates, but cannot do personal photos (we are not permitted to connect our personal electronic devices to government computers, and they are THE ONLY internet access at our base). I will try to access local official imagery, I'm sure folks would be interested.

As far as asking for items from your sponsor or others, the general desires here are protein bars, work-out equipment and supplements (no clothing-we are restricted there), and multitools (Leatherman, gerber, etc) or knives (the multitools and knives are used all the time, and seem to disappear).

All the best and thanks for the support.

R/,

CAPT Nixon, MC, USN

10 Mar 2011
We are a small medical platoon (XXXX guys) attached to a USMC forward operating base. The conditions are rather austere, with no exchange services, running water, sewer, TV, or movies. We do have limited internet access.
We live in tents (heated!). There are no toilets, but tubes stuck in the ground for peeing, and plastic bags we suspend from toilt seats for pooping. There is a community shower, with limited hours, as well as a limited availablility laundry machine.
We do not have kitchen facilities for individual cooking (limited galley facility only for brekfast and dinner).
We are well stocked with toiletries.
the platoon staff consists of one old guy (me, the physician), a nurse, a Physicins Assistant, a navy Chief Petty Officer, XXXX young Navy Corpsmen and XXXX young Marines (for or inernal security and protection from bad-guy patients). We are all honored to be here, to render aid to any injured Marine, Sailor, Airmn, or Soldier.

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New with us (December 2005) you might notice "APO AA" and "FPO AA". This is for units in the Caribbean/South America. Normally. However, due to the nature of some units they may be in Iraq but have an address showing "FPO AA". Mail addresses to "AA" goes out of Miami, Florida.

(Note 2.): Why are military addresses weird? There isn't a street address or city. What gives? Correct, just about everything about the military is weird to civilians. Military units are very mobile, they move around a lot, often they even become part of another unit. The APO (Army Post Office) and FPO (Fleet Post Office) assign APO and FPO numbers as needed, they are NOT static. An APO/FPO number may be for a large unit, or a location. An APO/FPO number for Baghdad today may be for Frankfurt tomorrow.

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( Note 6.): This is simply where the unit this contact is from. This is NOT a true picture of the folks in the unit as most all units are made up of folks from all over the United States.) A "Composite Unit" is one made up of other units and is usually temporary for a particular mission.

( 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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