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Here’s to YOU, 2/2!!

Author: 912 Project Idaho | Date: April 20, 2010

The 9-12 Marines Project Team wrapped up their support term on Thursday, April 8, 2010 as the 7-month deployment of the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment in Helmand Province, Afghanistan will come to a close in early May.  They packed the final boxes with cigars for the “celebratory smoke” and plenty of reading material for the long trip home.  There is something else they did that the men won’t actually see until they finally arrive home at Camp Lejeune, NC sometime in mid-May.  These ladies had LOTS of deployment photos compiled into 5 or 6 custom designed posters that will be hand delivered to Lejeune by the parents of Lcpl. Phillip Clifton (2/2 Weapons Co.) of Pocatello, to help decorate for the homecoming event. 


For Sandra, Vicki, Pat, Shanna, Gail and Susan, the fulfillment they found through this group effort (that began in November) does not end with the homecoming.  They are already looking for ways to continue the friendship they made in the process!


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From Susan Frickey, April 9, 2010


Here’s what I just sent Sgt Major (below) - Thank you ladies for your support and your dedication to this project. And thank you, Sgt. Grit, for all the donations we received from you to send on to 2/2.  We sent well over 300 boxes to 2/2 since the first of November!  It was an honor working with you to support our Marines during this long and brutal deployment.  They’ll still be in their battle zone for another month, so keep your prayers going until they touch down on AMERICAN soil!  And thank the Lord that we have all these amazing young Warriors watching our backs as we live our day-to-day privileged lives in the United States of America.


Thanks so much for sticking with the project, ladies, and thanks to all of you out there who supported us with your postage money.  2/2 suffered 9 KIAs and over 100 wounded, so it was a tough deployment - with still a month to go.


Susan


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In a message dated 4/9/2010 9:47:32 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time:


Final batch of boxes on their way to you, Sgt Major!  We had a champagne party to celebrate the end of the project and had a toast to all of you for a job well done!  We love every single one of your Marines, and thoroughly enjoyed supporting you!  These women had never been exposed to anything military before and truly stepped up to the plate, immersing themselves in the Marine Corps culture.  They will never be the same again.  ha


Have a safe trip home and posters with pictures of your deployment will be waiting for all of you when you get home to Lejeune.


Semper Fidelis


Susan
912 Project Idaho


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From:    Lcpl. Clifton
To:        Susan Frickey
Sent:    4/10/2010 7:24:58 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time
Subj:    Honors

Susan;


As humble as you and your group may want to be.  I will not let this great support go unnoticed by others.


I have been in touch with the State of Idaho Division of Veteran Services in Boise.  Their Administrator, Col. David Brasuell, USMC Retired desires the names of your group as the Veterans of this State would like to be able to provide you with a token of our appreciation.

If you would rather address it with him directly that is fine but I can tell you he is a Marine thru and thru and he probably will not take NO for an answer.


Division of Veterans Services
320 Collins Road
Boise, ID 83702
Phone: 208-577-2310


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Comments:

A big OOH-RAH for the ladies and the Marines they serve!  Our prayers are with the families of warriors fallen and wounded.

Posted by KiltedOne05 on April 21, 2010

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