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Packing List Advil Air fresheners Baby wipes** Batteries– AA and AAA Beef Jerky Board Games Candy (as long as it won’t melt) Canned Chili Cereal Chicken, Ham, Tuna Salad Kits Cigars Compressed air** (see below) Condiments (ketchup, mustard, mayo, Tabasco sauce, etc.) Cookies Crackers Crossword puzzles DayQuil Dental floss Deodorant Dice Dinty Moore Beef Stew Disposable cameras Disposable razor Dryer sheets (to keep bugs away) Excedrin Facial cleansing pads Fly swatters Foot Powder Gold bond powder** Granola bars Gummy Worms Hand sanitizers Hand Warmers Holiday Decorations Insect repellant Instant Coffee Instant oatmeal International phone cards (AT&T/MCI) Koozies to keep water bottles cans cool Lip Balm Magazines Microwavable Popcorn Moisturizer Mouthwash Newspapers Non-medicated eye drops Nuts Pepperoni Pictures Playing cards Poker Chips PopTarts Pop-top cans of tuna, chicken, or fruit Powdered Gatorade** Powdered KoolAid PowerBars** Pringles Pudding (kind that doesn’t require refrigeration) Q-tips Ramen noodles Salty snacks Seasonings (salt, pepper, garlic/onion powder, Cajun spices, etc.) Sewing Kit Shaving cream Smokeless Tobacco Soap Socks Sun flower seeds Sunblock Sunday comics Tic tacs Tissue packets Toilet Paper Toothbrush Toothpaste Trail mix T-Shirts (white or brown) Tylenol Vienna Sausages Anything that’s non-perishable and won’t crush in the transportation of the package ** indicates items most often needed/requested Compressed Air, for anyone who doesn't know, is similar looking to a can of WD-40...it's a can of air with a very skinny straw attached to it...the air is used to clean out their guns, keyboards, and cd/dvd players since iraq is full of sand ...these can be found at any place that sells electronics or computers, or at your local warehouse center (bj's, costco, sam's club, etc.)...make sure you wrap this well though (i use bubblewrap) because you don't want anything to puncture the cans. if anyone has any questions, please feel free to ask i hope this helps some of you...if anyone has something to add, please do PLEASE feel free to add your ideas! Taken from the Wives Forum. Ann

Packing List Batteries– AA and AAA (Better yet, re-chargable AA and AAA batteries with a charger! Initially kind of expensive, but you can get them at WalMart and Radio Shack!) Beef Jerky (Better yet, purchase a food dehydrator, and make your own home made jerky, especially, if you can get some venision, (not hard, deer hunters give it away) and spice it up with crushed red pepper, cayenne pepper, crushed red pepper flakes) Store bought jerky is like $15 a pound) Board Games (Go to Toys are us, and get the multi-games in one, about the size of an average book! They have checkers, chess, cribbige, backgammon. But, also send extra deck of cards.) Hoyle's guide to games! Has every card game you ever wanted to play! Canned Chili (Espeically the new Campbell's new chunky varieties) Cereal (Get one of those plastic ceral containers from WalMart, to put them in! They last longer, and stay fresher!) Cigars (Espeically the better ones, consult your local duty expert! But they cost! But just one good cigar a year!) Fast Break Black and Milds are good! Condiments (ketchup, mustard, mayo, Tabasco sauce, A-1, Heinz 57, Horseradish Sauce, Digion mustard) Dice (Don't forget poker dice) Dinty Moore Beef Stew (Check out the new line of Dinty Moores mini entree's) Gold bond powder (And Gold Bond's Medicated Cream - you'd have to be a guy to understand) Granola bars (Better if homemade! Not hard to do!) Instant Coffee ( A French Coffee Press is even better!!!!) Magazines (Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Discovery, Military History, Solider of Fortune, BASS, National Geographic, Leatherneck) Newspapers (Espeically, Hometown papers! Pepperoni (With wheat crackers and cheese or canned cheese) Playing cards (Lots of these!) Seasonings (salt, pepper, garlic/onion powder, Cajun spices, etc.) (Go to the camping section at WalMart, they sell the ones that has all of these in one container) Sewing Kit ( A really, really good one!) Smokeless Tobacco (The kind that has the cardboard bottom, not the plastic bottom!) Vienna Sausages Little Parrie Oil Sasuage Crackers Smoked Oysters Fish Steaks with peppers Kimpperd Snacks Sardines Taken from the Wives Forum. Ann

Does he mean men's mags like Car & Driver? I have a few of those and some gaming mags that didn't make it to Jason before he left. They may be a few months out of date.