Imagine it’s your first day on the job and you are responsible for picking up the mail and incoming packages for the camp. You visit the main post office and in a wooden bin they have a stack a mail of that hasn’t been picked up in awhile. Then you ask the question “Is there [...]
Filed under: School supplies project | Tagged: Afghanistan, charity, Deployment, education, ETT, humanitarian mission, literacy, war | 4 Comments »
From Liisa, SMSgt Temple’s wife: Rex is still out on his mission and I’m using the space to publish some very graphic reminders of why education is so vital especially for women and young girls in Afghanistan. Many of you may have seen a report on ABC News this week about a young Afghan woman [...]
Filed under: School supplies project | Tagged: Afghan women, Afghanistan, education, mutilation, news, spousal abuse, Taliban, wife, women's rights, WUSF | 3 Comments »
From Liisa, SMSgt Temple’s wife: So the Wi-Fi Internet service for the troops that allows Rex to use his laptop in his B-Hut cubicle went down AGAIN. Luckily Rex managed to get through on the telephone to WUSF’s Bobbie O’Brien after waiting for 1.5 hours; the line for the MRW computers was also another 1.5 [...]
Filed under: School supplies project | Tagged: Broad and Cassel, dogs, donations, Environmental Consulting & Technology, goldendoodle, Holland & Knight Charitable Foundation, Internet access, pets, Sam and Charlie, shipping, University of Tampa, UPS Store | 2 Comments »
From Liisa, SMSgt Temple’s wife: This came from Rex’s mom Maxine and his sister Jill – it was in the local paper back home in Somerset County, PA this week Friedens students help Afghan children Each year in conjunction with the 100th day of school, Friedens Elementary tries to support a worthy cause. This year [...]
Filed under: School supplies project | Tagged: Daily American, Friedens Elementary, Pennsylvania, Rockwood, Somerset County | Leave a Comment »
From Liisa, SMSgt Temple’s wife: Rex is having problems with electricity, which is going on and off at his camp tonight. So I am using the space instead to give credit to some of our amazing school supplies drive volunteers … ***** What do you get when you mix a mountain of school supplies, a [...]
Filed under: School supplies project | Tagged: Afghanistan, charity, Deployment, education, ETT, humanitarian mission, Independent Day School, school supplies, SS American Victory, war | 4 Comments »
Yesterday we had a reprieve from a mission, but our midnight mission for today was still a go. So in the afternoon we all met at the vehicles and started to get them ready for the mission. I was going to be the lead driver for the formation. My gunner an Army Specialist put a [...]
Filed under: Missions, School supplies project | Tagged: .50 cal machine gun, Afghanistan, Ashburn, Crossroads United Methodist Church, Deployment, ETT, MRAP, officers doing physical labor, Skype, U.S. Air Force, war | 2 Comments »
Rex is out on a mission so I am taking the opportunity to say “thanks” to some very special young people here in Tampa with the Hillsborough County Public Schools. A few weeks ago I had the chance to go visit with third, fourth and fifth graders at Lake Magdalene Elementary School in North Tampa. [...]
Filed under: School supplies project | Tagged: Catherine Chappell, Hillsborough County Public Schools, KICS, Kids into Community Service, Lake Magdalene Elementary School | Leave a Comment »
The weather here has been see-sawing back and forth for the past two days. At night we get pelted with small snow flurries which turn into rain the next morning. Then later in the afternoon, the temperature changes again and the precipitation forms large feathery snowflakes before repeating the night cycle. This see-sawing of precipitation [...]
Filed under: Mentoring ANA, School supplies project | Tagged: Afghan National Army, Afghanistan, ANA, ETT, Oak Grove Middle School, U.S. Air Force, war | 5 Comments »
Today we had a special visit from Major General Curtis Scaparrotti. He is the 82nd Airborne Commander and Commander of US Forces in Eastern Afghanistan. He is one of General McChrystal’s key strategists and tacticians. The General and his staff came way of Blackhawk helicopter and landed in ANA land. This was an opportunity for [...]
Filed under: Mentoring ANA, School supplies project | Tagged: 82nd Airborne, Afghan National Army, Afghanistan, ANA, Beanie Babies, Deployment, ETT, Major General Curtis Scaparrotti | 2 Comments »
Rex is out on a mission and asked me to update his readers about the latest developments with the “School Supplies for Afghan Children” project. It’s been a busy week. On Tuesday I picked up another carload of donated supplies from WUSF Radio and TV on University of South Florida’s Tampa campus. The station has [...]
Filed under: School supplies project | Tagged: Afghanistan, education, Gen. Raymond E. Johns Jr, humanitarian mission, military spouse, U.S. Air Force, war | 4 Comments »
