Please note:

This website was set up to get parcels to Australian Soldiers/Sailors/Airmen/Airwomen deployed overseas.

You are welcome to cut and paste information and use it to support sending parcels to our service members serving overseas, however, when you do cut and paste please link back to Ocean Sky & Khaki to acknowledge OSK, and so that people can find the blog themselves.

If there are questions one of us will answer if you comment on a post at the blog.

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Sunday, January 31, 2010

OSK Mission Accomplished! Keep up the good work!

Anonymous in the comments on the post for November 30th sent us a link to this information at the DOD site....


12 January 2010
Care packages for ‘an Australian soldier’
Australian soldiers serving in Afghanistan have been inundated with care packages from thoughtful people back home.
Hundreds of packages were addressed to ‘an Australian soldier’ and included lollies, toiletries and cards.
The smiles on the faces of the soldiers based at Camp Holland, clearly proved the care packages boosted morale.
I really can't express how pleased I am to see that the efforts of people sending care packages to Aussie defence personnel deployed overseas have been reported by the DOD. This shows that the parcels addressed to "An Australian Soldier" are getting through.

It is nice to think that our little blog has had an effect on the morale of our Defence members serving overseas, and that there are people out there who have visited our blog and decided to support our soldiers/sailors/airmen/K9s.

Thank you is such a small thing to say, but please know that your support for our troops is truly appreciated, respected and goes a long way to show that people at home care about our Defence personnel.

Here is the link to the item, there are more photographs. Note the number of packages packed in the large transport boxes.

http://www.defence.gov.au/opEx/global/opslipper/images/gallery/2010/0112a/index.htm

Keep up the good work!

3 comments:

Gregoryno6 said...

Well done parcel senders. And DOD - you've proven yourself susceptible to common sense after all.

Carpe Jugulum said...

Wooo Hooo, a win for common sense.

Good to see the troops with a little piece of home.

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