April 2008 - We are always soliciting,  receiving and shipping onward items which have been specifically requested by the troops.  Especially outside the established holidays.   Who are these "troops"? 

They are your and our neighbors who have been deployed to protect all of us and our families.  But then you already know that; witness your presence on this web page.  We ship these goods onward to the troops and their families everywhere, and with special interest in the troops who are on combat duty way up in the rocky front lines in the mountains of Afghanistan and in Iraq while all of us are comfortably home.   A letter why this is important.

The items on the list below have been specifically requested by different units.  The list changes as requests change.

If you want to send things to the troops, these are the things they principally want and which we can get to them.   Like you, we believe in looking out for the folks who are looking out for all of us here at home. Thank you!

The Rules:

• Nothing less than the best for these first class people!  All first class, brand new, unopened, safety-sealed goods for America's finest.
• Please include copies of the purchase receipts for the items for safety cross-checking.
• Please include your name, address and phone number in case we need to get hold of you about the shipment. Also, be sure your name, address and phone appears legibly on the outside of the box.
• Please include a print-out of a digital picture of your group, school and class, or such and any notes about why you did this so the troops can know how much the folks here really love, respect and appreciate them. We want the troops and their families to know who, way back here at home, is thinking about them.
• Cards, letters, and the like need to be unsealed and inspectable.
• In each priority box you ship include a new $8.95 United States Flat Rate Priority Mail stamp. We will be using that in combination with more, to repackage and ship onward to the troops and their families. 
• Simple!

The following are the things the troops principally request:

• phone cards (#1 most requested item; so they can phone their loved ones)
• VISA and M/C gift cards (#2 most requested item; gives them maximum flexibility
• personal hygiene items (American made for safety of course)
•         wet wipes, individually wrapped in foil packs (not gel bottles)
•         body wipes in plastic pull-out canisters
•         disposable razors – men's and women's
•         chap sticks
•         floss
•         toothbrushes
•         foot powder
•         and the like
• magazines (clean content)
• books (clean content)
• fun posters and calendars for dressing the place up
• AA batteries
• AAA batteries
• movie DVD's (clean content)
• music CDs (clean content)
• iPODs (empty)
• small earphones
• 1 GB and 2 GB memory sticks (external hard drives) (blank)
• beef jerky and sticks
• peanuts and nuts in cans with lids
• tins and packets of flavored coffee and cappuccino
• candy
• gum
• breath mints

How to Mail Them to Us.

Use U.S. Mail only. Not UPS. Not FedEx. They do not deliver to our PO Box. (It may be a PO Box in a federal Post Office building, but we can fit a truck load of goods through it).

The Post Office has a $8.95 flat rate priority mail box into which you can fit as much as you physically can at the one price.

They also have good old parcel post, which is very cheap and only takes about three extra days to reach us (which means can spent on things for the troops instead of shipping).

Mail them to SupportOurTroops^®, P. O. Box 70, Daytona Beach, FL 32115-0070. Be sure your name, address and phone is on the outside of the mailing box.

If you are a company or manufacturer wishing to donate a substantial block of any of the foregoing or similar, please contact us for trucking and warehouse information.

Overseas Units Request Care Package Here