Special Contact Requests

Re: Overlooked contacts - 2008 edition

Dragon — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:17:39 GMT

I'm one of the 13 for WO1 Kevin Pfanstiel. I sent him another package yesterday, after being sidelined for six weeks late last year for surgery.

Re: Overlooked contacts - 2008 edition

itsmesheila — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:42:41 GMT

I see Miller did get some more requests thanks to Andrea's posting. Hopefully he RECEIVES something.

Wanted to bring attention to Martin Motes posted 1/20, and has had 3 requests. He is supporting 80 males. His post wasnt the most descriptive, and that is probably why not so many requests but still I am sure they would love support.

Re: Overlooked contacts - 2008 edition

Andrea — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:10:04 GMT

SGT. Nicholas T. Miller posted today that he has not received anything (packages or letters) since he last updated on Dec. 3. I find this unfortunate since he has 38 address requests.

Re: Overlooked contacts - December Update!

Gran — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:45:39 GMT

Shelly,

Thanks for keeping us updated.

Gran

Re: Overlooked contacts - December Update!

STL — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:45:23 GMT

bumping.... i just took a quick peek at some of the December contacts on the list and there are still a bunch that don't have any additional requests If anyone is looking for an additional contact, I'd hate to see more of these drop off for being undersupported, plz consider helping out someone from the list! Thanks!!

Re: Overlooked contacts - SSG Sinner

Gran — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:12:08 GMT

SSG Sinner went under his 50-day drop notice today - Jan. 12

Gran

Re: Overlooked contacts - December Update!

STL — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:09:11 GMT

December Update	M/F	# Req then	# now
CPT Roshun Steele	100/15	10	14
SSG Burton Laughton	15/5	10	12	dropped
SSG Yvonne Nelson	20/20	10	12
GySgt Timothy Wright	50/25	10	19
CWO Steven Peralez	100/12	11	12	dropped
SSG Marcos Mendoza	22/8	11	12	dropped
SGT Jonathan Lee	50/0	11	11	dropped
PV2 Kyle Williams	20/10	11	13	dropped
SFC Russell Prupis	36/5	8	11	dropped
William Haydu	50/3	9	12	warning up
SPC Octavio Ortiz	20/2	9	13
SFC Dollie Johnson	10/10	9	11	dropped
SPC Sammy Holland	37/7	9	12
Jose Ramirez	17/0	9	15	dropped
SPC Mark Penuelaz	30/0	9	11	dropped
SPC Vernon Thompson	10/5	9	11	dropped
SFC James Helmling	20/4	9	12
SGT Chase A Ridge	20/8	9	12	dropped
SPC Cory Nelson	20/10	9	11	dropped
Robert Wohlschlaeg	20/2	9	13
2LT Eric Pevehouse	30/0	9	13
SPC David Ingram	75/7	10	10	dropped
Deyvi Salmeron	30/3	11	11
Donovan Poore	10/3	10	10	warning up
Pedro Jauregui	4/1	8	9
Terry Leet	25/0	10	10
Ronald JeanLouis	10/0	11	12
RJ Sanders	3/0	10	14
Shawn Olson	3/0	10	10	warning up
Alan Lovitt	4/6	10	10	warning up
Eric Heinz	10/1	10	10
Dedric Freeney	10/2	14	14
ZeQuoria Jefferson	11/7	8	8



Ongoing from November and earlier lists:
Contact	M/F	# Req then	now
Kevin Pfanstiel	12/2	10	13
David Webber	300/100	27	65	supporters of this contact should read the 1/8 update!
				supporters of this contact should read the 1/8 update!


Dropped from earlier lists: Mravlja, Watts, Stergos, McDaniel, Uhl, Dinh, G Williams, Nick, Jarrin, Oshiro, Rivera, Rodriguez, C Rogers


Looked good from earlier lists: Disoso, Batson, J Martinez, B Smith, Sinner, Snyder, Colon, Wallis, Gerardo, Freitag

Re: Overlooked contacts - 2008 edition

Donna L. — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:40:46 GMT

Here is another example of this site working well with everyone doing what-ever they can do. I pick groups WITH a few people and don't pick the larger ones because I don't feel I can do the larger ones justice, but I can send more often to the smaller ones. Put folks like me with folks like you and we should cover just about all, right? That is my sincere hope.

Take care,

Donna

Re: Overlooked contacts - 2008 edition

Gran — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:42:37 GMT

One reason that we don't usually pick up contacts with less than 4 people is the ratio of the cost of per person to fill and mail a package. We can fill a military FRB and mail it and be able to include something for many people for that cost.

Gran

Re: Overlooked contacts - 2008 edition

heartmindsol — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:34:30 GMT

In general, I do think more troops need more contacts. However, I have seen contacts with around ten requests and less never receive little if anything. There is no accurate way to know other than their update posts, or contact with supporters. They could have one church sending tons of boxes, or many requests just to send out postcards and letters one time. One thing that we know for sure, that they all want mail and snacks. We need to use our best judgment and go with our hearts.

Re: Overlooked contacts - 2008 edition

ann — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:01:10 GMT

Good Morning to All and Happy New Year -

To each his own…

Just my opinion but...

A low number of personnel listed should not stop folks from requesting a Soldier’s address and writing to them or sending packages - MAIL is important to ALL - regardless…

A few months is a long time between contact with the outside worldJ

Ann

Re: Overlooked contacts - 2008 edition

Gran — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:11:28 GMT

It may just be my judgement, but when I see a contact representing only 3 people, I don't consider them to be overlooked when they have 10 requests for their addresses. If 3 people get 6 boxes every couple of months, that may be all that they need. That's one reason we only generally send (there's always an exception though) to contacts representing 10 or more unless they are a small unit in a very isolated place as was one unit we supported. I know that they wrote later that they had all they needed, so we could stop sending to them. To me, a unit with 20 or more has need for lots more supporters than a unit of 4 or less unless there are special circumstances such as them sending out support to locals or other forward groups. That's just the way we work.

Gran

Re: Overlooked contacts - 2008 edition

CosmoGirl — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:21:26 GMT

PFC ZeQuoria W. Jefferson

Only requested 8 times since July 27th 2008

Re: Overlooked contacts - 2008 edition

STL — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:53:47 GMT

I have a few contacts to add to the overlooked list. Only one or two mentioned in their posts they were not receiving much in the way of support, but all of them have fewer requests by far than others signed up around the same time... so I'm afraid they just might not be mentioning it....

Deyvi Salmeron 30/3 x11

Donovan Poore 10/3 x10

Pedro Jauregui 4/1 x8

Terry M Leet 25/0 x10

Ronald JeanLouis 10/0 x11

RJ Sanders 3/0 x10

Shawn Olson 3/0 x10

Alan Lovitt 4/6 x10

Eric Heinz 10/1 x10

Dedric Freeney 20/2 x14

Re: Overlooked contacts - 2008 edition

Gran — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:26:51 GMT

We haven't heard anything from SGT Greg Williams since we sent them one package Nov. 20. We have had 5 contacts go to old contacts just this month besides the ones whose tours have ended, and there are 3 more that are under notice that only have a few days to go. SGT Williams was one and 1SGT Albert Rodriguez was another of the 5. All of them were supposed to be deployed until at least March, most until May through Sept. Anyway, that left us with enough supplies to pick up a couple of new ones.

Gran