[Newsbot]

Title: No room to fly gifts to our troops
Category: Military
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2008-11-02 11:04:35
Canadian

[bootlegga]

There's no room in those 4 huge C-17s?

[Tricks]

$1:

All the flights that go to places such as Afghanistan are filled to the brim with combat supplies, spare parts, equipment and mail from families. Because space is so limited, nothing else can be added to the payload, he said.

[PENATRATOR]

Sucks, I was there for Xmas last year, no care packages really is depressing, but really given the enviroment as I did with my Kosovo tour in 99/00, over Xmas, you really put it out of your head and get on with the job, No need to get homesick, really the Afghan landscape does not exactly bring on images of Christmas!!

[dino_bobba_renno]

Why can't they charter a cargo plane? The government seems to have no problem flying GG Michaëlle Jean all over the place in challengers and spending money on her to stay 5 star hotels so finding the money to deliver care packages shouldn't be a big deal.

Seems to me someone is thinking more about dollars and cents and forgetting the human element here.

[martin14]

stupid question, but would it possible to send
by UPS or the regular mail ?

[dino_bobba_renno]

PENATRATOR or Eisensapper might be better able to answer that but I wouldn't think so.

[PENATRATOR]

martin14 martin14:

stupid question, but would it possible to send
by UPS or the regular mail ?

Regular mail all ends up in Belleville and then Trenton where it is loaded onto CF aircraft and flown over

[roger-roger]

There is a way to send it through DHL I think, it goes through the states and ends up in KAF. I really dont know how someone is notified when thier stuff arrives though.

[PENATRATOR]

Eisensapper Eisensapper:

There is a way to send it through DHL I think, it goes through the states and ends up in KAF. I really dont know how someone is notified when thier stuff arrives though.

Had some stuff sent to the US postal system from friends in the states, a plt, coy whatever rep just periodicaly checks for the groups mail at the US office in KAF

[uwish]

I think a C-17 will take the load no problem. We are not restricted to hercs anymore.

[bootlegga]

martin14 martin14:

stupid question, but would it possible to send
by UPS or the regular mail ?

I'm sure you could, but international shipping costs a fortune.

[PENATRATOR]

Like I said all mail going into Kandahar goes throught the military system. Where else would you send it to. There is obviously no local post office downtown Kandahar city that guys have PO boxes at.