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December 11th, 2003, 21:34
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| Agent Smith  |  Track the Care Packs to Iraq! Track the Care Packages! They all will not show up, but todays shipment was 17 BOXES, each averaging between 42 and 49 pounds of goodies for MikeD and the good guys. But the ones that do show up on the report will give you a good indication of whether or not they've arrived to our eagerly awaiting soldiers. |
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December 11th, 2003, 21:35
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: New York
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| Re: Track the Care Packs to Iraq! Bookmarked!  |
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December 11th, 2003, 21:46
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| Re: Track the Care Packs to Iraq! What ended up happening with the shipment situation? I hope to god you guys didn't have to pay full price for 718 pounds!! |
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December 11th, 2003, 22:01
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| Agent Smith | Re: Track the Care Packs to Iraq! It worked out to $22/box after the special deal with DHL/Airborne so it was about $370 total. If I didn't have the special rate, it'd have been about $2,390. And Davis-Monthan told me that the deadline for using military mail was last November, and even then it'd take 8 to 10 weeks after reaching the APO (Army Post Office?) to make it to Iraq. And I'd still be responsible for using USPS to get it from PHX to the east coast, which would have cost me way more than Airborne. |
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December 11th, 2003, 22:34
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Inside your OODA loop
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| Re: Track the Care Packs to Iraq! How'd ya swing the deal with DHL/Airborne? |
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December 11th, 2003, 22:50
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| Agent Smith | Re: Track the Care Packs to Iraq! Lots and lots of email, phone calls and selling the project. Those guys are awesome awesome awesome. Man, I'm still practically dumbfounded over how friendly, helpful and understanding those guys are. If I was a tatoo kind of guy, I'd have a DHL/Airborne tatoo after experiencing how fantastic those guys are. man o man. |
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December 11th, 2003, 23:03
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: East Palo Alto, CA
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| Re: Track the Care Packs to Iraq! I can't wait to see the guys (and gal) with all this stuff! Hopefully they will send a digital photo or two for the site. This is seriously the coolest thing I've seen at jetcareers. Thanks Kristie for all those photos on the other thread - that probably took a lot of extra time, but it gave me the biggest grin! /lovefest - can't help it  |
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December 11th, 2003, 23:50
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| Re: Track the Care Packs to Iraq! [ QUOTE ] Man, I'm still practically dumbfounded over how friendly, helpful and understanding those guys are. [/ QUOTE ] When I spent the night over at ABX a couple of weeks ago it was quite obvious by just looking at the Flight Ops department that it was a class act comapny. Just great people all around. Can't say enough about them. However, the fact that they are letting this private pilot hop in their 767 sim for a couple of hours next week might make me a little biased. |
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December 12th, 2003, 01:15
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: KPHX, KFFZ, KIWA
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    | Re: Track the Care Packs to Iraq! So here is what myself and Everett have been wondering. Is this a total surprise for MikeD and the guys. Or do they know that the packages are coming.... Hopefully it's a surprise.. there always best. Matthew Superior Valkyrie Ace |
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December 12th, 2003, 02:27
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| Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: East Palo Alto, CA
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| Re: Track the Care Packs to Iraq! [ QUOTE ] When I spent the night over at ABX a couple of weeks ago it was quite obvious by just looking at the Flight Ops department that it was a class act comapny. [/ QUOTE ] Where is ABX? Not an airport code... |
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December 12th, 2003, 06:54
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Northern Hemisphere
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| Re: Track the Care Packs to Iraq! I think he meant that he spent time at an Airborne Express facility. Mahesh |
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December 12th, 2003, 09:44
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2003
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| Re: Track the Care Packs to Iraq! Im glad someone came through with a shipping deal. Although I wouldnt have been surprised, I wouldve been worried if no one wouldve helped you get that stuff over there. I hope the guys are able to enjoy their gifts! |
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December 12th, 2003, 11:44
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: who haa
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| Re: Track the Care Packs to Iraq!  Feel good guys. We all did a very good thing. |
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December 12th, 2003, 12:12
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| Old Skool  Join Date: May 2002 Location: Maryland
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| Re: Track the Care Packs to Iraq! Hey, Doug, you want any publicity about this thing? It may encourage others to do the same and it may be a counter to all the "overpaid pilots" BS that we see all the time in the press. If you're up for it, I can talk to some people. |
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December 12th, 2003, 12:51
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: 41-41-00.830N 083-47-26.160W
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| Re: Track the Care Packs to Iraq! [ QUOTE ] Hey, Doug, you want any publicity about this thing? It may encourage others to do the same and it may be a counter to all the "overpaid pilots" BS that we see all the time in the press. If you're up for it, I can talk to some people. [/ QUOTE ] One person in our community did exactly what Doug did, but with some Publicity. This guy started "Operation Baseball". He called up our local news and from there it went right up the food chain to CNN. |
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December 12th, 2003, 15:39
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| Agent Smith | Re: Track the Care Packs to Iraq! Publicity would be good! People think general aviation pilots are noisy bad neighbors and airline pilots are overpaid bufoons, so any positive light helps us all. |
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December 12th, 2003, 16:16
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| Big Chief's Woman  | Re: Track the Care Packs to Iraq! yeah - we've been trying to get some publicity but so far, doug and I have been unsuccessful... now Rausda27 (Dan) has been quite successful and it looks like there might be an article in the Scottsdale Tribune as soon as doug calls the editor back... we'd certainly like to see this go up the food chain because the Military head honcho's need to reprioritize the troops to being their number #1 because they are the guys doing the work...the machines, bombs, tanks and so forth would never do the trick without the soldiers telling them what to do/where to go etc... it was such a pain trying to talk to the military about getting the packages over there - even the public relations department didn't know what to do.. you'd think for the military, they would know how to get packages over to their own men...but maybe next time we send something over - they'll be able to help us... Matthew - The goodies inside the boxes are a surprise but the boxes going over there are not a surprise since we had to get his mailing address and the names of the other soldiers... Pilot602 - the new graphic is AWESOME!!!!! |
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December 12th, 2003, 17:00
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| Agent Smith | Re: Track the Care Packs to Iraq! Just finished a telephone interview with the Scottsdale Tribune. They seemed very interested in the story. Very nice reporter too! He was suprised that with a website that gets 1/2 million hits per day sitting in Scottsdale Airpark's backyard, that we don't have more interaction. Me too! Call me guys! |
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December 12th, 2003, 18:39
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| Old Skool Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: KPHX, KFFZ, KIWA
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| Re: Track the Care Packs to Iraq! [ QUOTE ] Matthew - The goodies inside the boxes are a surprise but the boxes going over there are not a surprise since we had to get his mailing address and the names of the other soldiers... [/ QUOTE ] Cool...figured they hada know something. Hope MikeD and them guys like me and Ev's e-mail and everything that wuz sent. I got much love fer all them A-10 pilots of the 355th that fly around the skies of TUS. Grew up watching & worshippin em and wantin to be jus like em. They helped make me the pilot that I am today and the pilot that I hope to be in the future. Big ups MikeD an crew Matthew & Everett  |
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December 13th, 2003, 08:38
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