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    Spreading some hammock love

    I had a thought today and since I am relatively new to the hammocking world, I am not sure if it has already been tried.......

    For all of us, hammocking has greatly influenced our lives, simply by bringing back some comfort into our worlds. I got to thinking about the horrible conditions our front line soldiers in afghanistan are living in (if any one has seen the documentary "restrepo").

    How cool would it be to send some hammocking gear to our front line soldiers in afghanistan. I am not talking about the ones living on the huge bases, but the soldiers at the FOBs. the ones getting shot at regularly.

    My though was if maybe someone here had a relative at a FOB in afgahnistan. We could collect some hammocks, whoopies, maybe even some donated under quilts. If our cottage guys were willing to help out, that would be great too. Someone would have to volunteer to be the collection point...
    Collect everything and send it to the soldiers overseas.

    Does anyone else like this idea? I just feel like since the media isn't really reporting much about this anymore, we tend to forget about those on the front lines.

    I will start first.

    I will committ to buy a ENO DN.

    Who's next?

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    I actually had a friend over there; offered to send her a kit, but she said they were not allowed to sleep outside; then again it was a her, and she was on town patrol, so that might have had something to do with the restriction.
    just think it might be good to check the regs before shipping the goodies.

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    Ker makes a good point, it would be a shame to send them to a unit that couldn't make use of them. We should try to figure out who we can contact in each branch that will be able to tell us who can and cannot use a hammock. I'll do some asking around and see if I can come up with anything.

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    Excellent idea. I know the enemy will be jealous!

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    They definitely wont sleep outside at a FOP, but I can GARAUNTEE you that if they wanna hang, they'l make it happen inside Shamerai Warriors

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    Part of the Clark Jungle Hammocks sales pitch is that they are used by U S Special Forces. (that's the Green Berets ) Personally, from a veteran's point of view, any sleeping above ground is not really a good idea in a combat zone. On the other hand, it does turn into Hell's Kitchen (110+)in the warm months over there.

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