Attention Valenzuela Family

This will be a long letter. I wanted to illustrate a typical week in the life of the 40th ADT so everyone will have a good idea of what we do and who is receiving the care packages you put together. There is no way I can reference everyone in the ADT in this letter, but I’m going to talk about a few people by name just so you’ll know that we are real people here.

This letter highlights the week of December 14th thru the 19th when 24 members of the 64 member 40th ADT (Agricultural Development Team) went north to conduct a watershed survey and a health fair for farm animas. The wealth of rural Afghanistan is in its farm animals. People may not own any land and live in a tent, but they can be wealthy in animals. If disease strikes these animals a family could not only be poverty stricken over night they can also starve.

They say an army travels on its stomach, but in Afghanistan our troops are finding that a lack of socks makes traveling difficult. In fact, they don’t have much of anything in the way of hygiene products (anyone have an old Sears Catalog we could send for toilet paper?). We’re doing what we can, and you can help. Here’s a short list of much-needed items:

Dollar Days has put up a soldier "wish list" to make donating items to the troops much easier and convenient. From the comfort of your own home you can now peruse the list, select the items you would like and we will ensure that our brave troops will receive them in Iraq or Afghanistan.