Milsurp After Hours

Mail Call !!
Two words that bring so much fear and joy to ones soul when walking in the darknest of combat.
Will there be a letter for me? Or or will I have to wait until the next time.
Will it be good news or bad? No matter what it will make me cry.
How many times will I read this letter until the next one comes.
And will I be here to hear the next Mail Call?



You will never know the joy that can come from a few lines scratched on a piece of paper untill your name is called during Mail Call.



A letter from home is sometimes called a letter from the real world. But in combat it is a candle in the window of a world that you are starting to believe is only a dream. It is easy to get lost in the darkness of war, every candle helps.

Welcome to the forums Candyman. Good post.

Yes, welcome. Hope your stay is a long and happy one.

Anybody keep their old mail from serving in foreign countries? I got all the letters my wife sent me in Vietnam and all the ones she saved that I sent her. And....the ones I sent my parents that they kept until their death.

I started a timeline at my 6/31st site based on information in letters sent home. Funny how we left out all the stuff we really want to remember now. No point in scaring the home folks. They were scared enough without us adding any truth.

My Ex-wife asked me to write her every day when I was deployed during Desert Storm, to which I tried. She has a box with over 100 letters in it that I sent her. Alot of the letters have brown specks on them from the oil that fell fron the somke filled skys.
I have the letters that were sent to my but, they are put away in a box and will see the light of day when I am gone. I don't need to read them anymore. All I have to do is close my eyes and I can see them.

Welcome aboard Lee!
I hope you like it here.

Thanks Clay and Niner.
It will take me a few days to find my way around but, so far I like what I see.
I think I will like it here.

Welcome I have enjoyed reading your posts come back soon my freind.

We always looked forward to mail call. Letters and packages. That's one of the reasons I 'sponsor' a couple of the troopers in my old outfit from Viet Nam when they have been deployed in Iraq. I make sure that they always have letters and packages coming.

We were in the boonies most of the time, and carried everything we had with us. We were at base camp so little (when I came in country, when I had to get stitched up after a rocket attack, when we moved from I Corp to III corp) that we didn't even have any storage there, so the letters got read until the next batch got there and then destroyed. I have some in a tin box, that I wrote to my ex that she gave me when we split, but I'm not sure I could put my hands on them. But you are right, Niner, I didn't write about everything that went on.

One of our moderators, Dutch Mosin, is on a tour in Afganistan right now. A few of us moderators will be sending him care packages as soon as we find out where to send them.

I've sent three different people that I had a connection to care packagers in recent years to Iraq and Afganistan. But with email potential that now exists in base camps I wonder how many actual letters are sent anymore......even if they will go for free for those in combat zones. The only thing is ....emails are discarded ...letters can last a lifetime.