I spoke with a good friend of mine last night who I met while his family was stationed at Ft. Drum, NY. He's former military and his wife is first sergeant of C Co 325th FSB LFT 325 25th Infantry Division. She's stationed in Afghanistan at Kandahar and is involved with providing medical care to US Army Personnel in the Kandahar area of operations, the local nationals, their families and the Afghan National Army.
These soldiers are living in tents that have 110V electricity from generators but are plagued with frequent electric outages, have been living on army chow (for way too long), and have very few comforts that remind them of home.
She has a profile on www.AnySoldier.com as do many other point of contacts that are accepting care packages. She's acting as the point of contact for 48 males and 22 females and distributing items to those soldiers.
She's one of the larger points of contact on AnySoldier.com, most are for anywhere from 3-50 soldiers, and if you'd like to send something her name is Lalone, 1SG Ella M. and you can look her up on www.AnySoldier.com.
If you don't send something to her, maybe you'll consider sending something to another soldier in need of a care package. The shipping doesn't actually cost that much because your shipping to an APO address. This means that your actually only paying shipping to NY and the military is carrying it from there.
I'm collecting stuff locally to send to Ella and her troops, I just thought I'd mention the website in case someone wanted to show their support, it's a great way to.
UpstateNYer