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Dear
Beanie Baby Ambassadors,
Thanks so much for the “care” packages of Beanie Babies and the snack box. They arrived on the 21st and the 26th.
My soldiers and I appreciate very much your thoughtfulness and gave several babies away this morning to children that had
been injured. I do have to tell you all that several of my female soldiers and I, and one (He kept saying"DO NOT remind me
AGAIN!!") male soldiers “played” with them as we unpacked them. I had forgotten just how cute they were.
We are a small active duty surgical unit from Ft Hood, Texas. We treat American soldiers, sailors, airmen and. marines and
soldiers of the 26 Coalition forces in our area of responsibility. (The Navy provides medics to Marine units.). We also treat
local nationals when we can. The majority of our patients so far have been Coalition and local nationals.
We do not do sick call, but take care of trauma patients by providing life, limb, and eye preserving surgical procedures and
then we transfer the patients to the next higher level of care (military hospital) or to the local national hospital. The
patients we have seen so far have had gunshot wounds, wounds from rocket propelled grenades and mortars, and burns.. Our goal
in treating the locals is to help them of course, and win the hearts and minds of the people. We can’t treat them all
though and that is often heartbreaking. We have been up and operating almost two months and have many more months before we
can return home.
Most of my soldiers have gotten over their initial loneliness and we’ve come together as a team. Taking care of injured
soldiers and innocent children is very hard. But we are doing the job we are supposed to be doing.
Again I thank you for your generous gifts. Diane S., Sabrina B and Kathy K. especially. These little guys are so cute! Please
keep us and all of the military personnel in your thoughts.
Patricia A.Fortner
LTC, AN Commanding
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