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From: Roy Reyna
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 4:25 AM
Subject: Re: Hellooooooooooooooo!

Hello,    Once again thanks for keeping us in your thoughts and prayers. Well we have not had much rain here so it has become hot and dusty. But I guess it could always be worse. I am counting the days that I have left to go home and see my family next month. It has been a very long 6 month stretch.  Hope you find your self in great health and spirit. Thanks again  

Roy

From: Roy Reyna [mailto:reynar_99@yahoo.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2008 7:55 AM
Subject: Thank You

 Well I have been meaning to write a letter but they have been keeping us very busy. I just wanted to send you an email to express my gratitude and appreciation for all the warm cards and letters I have been receiving from you and several members of The New Light Methodist Church. I thank you all for keeping me and all the troops in your thoughts and prayers.

Roy

From: Roy Reyna reynar_99@yahoo.com 
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 12:43 PM 
Subject: Thank You

I finally get a chance to catch up on my emails and letters. They have been keeping extremely busy the past few weeks. Hopefully things will slow down now with the holidays around the corner.

I hope both of you fine yourselves in good spirits. I once again am very thankful for everything you have sent me. My battle buddies Victor and Tracy are also thankful since I let them have some socks When I got notified that I had 5 boxes for mail I was Once I picked them up and saw that they were all from you I was speechless. There are not enough words to express my gratitude for everything.

My battle buddies Victor and Tracy are enjoy all the goodies you have sent. You are making our deployment less stressful.. Thanks again.

I miss the Tex-Mex food as well. I can't complain here since they feed us very well most of the time. But I still miss the food from Texas.

I was telling my daughter about you and how supportive you all have been. She wanted me to tell you thanks for being so nice and supportive to me. Actually she said"thanks for sending my daddy lots of goodies" Kids there so lovable.

Please say hi to all the members of your church and thank them for adopting me.

Hope you are having a wonderful holiday season.

Roy

27 Nov 2007

Greetings from Iraq….. J have been nearly overwhelmed with letters and packages from home it's been difficult to keep up with our thank you notes. J But please know that we appreciate every one of your letters and packages. It means a lot to have the support of so many people back home.

We've been lucky enough to get a "boring" mission on a small camp in Balad. I'm a medic, but they don't do any treatment on our camp (except minor sick call stuff) and they never "need" me for convoys (at least not yet) so I've been doing main training & administrative tasks. Yada yada yada…..J

I'm originally from western New York, but have lived in Pennsylvania for the last 7 years and am unsure of where I will go when I return to the states. At home I am a full time single mother, a student and a behavioral counselor by day, a national guard soldier on the weekends. J I've contemplated active duty, but I have one more course to finish my degree. So I just decided to volunteer for a deployment to do my part in supporting our guys over here……and here I am. Joy of joys!J I had hoped to be doing more medical work, but I suppose it's a good thing when medics are not needed overly much. So I do a lot of studying and training and online courses when I can.

It's chilly here now, especially at night. We all have to bundle up for the evening shifts. It's a small camp and we rarely leave it, so we go a bit stir crazy from time to time stuck on a small area of sand surrounded by barbed wire and cement barriers. We take turns going to the gym on the main base once a week to play softball or volleyball. The squads also get together (about eight people to each squad) to play board games once in a while, and laugh at each other. A sense of humor goes a long way here.

We live in little metal boxes J not too unlike the ones that are carried on the backs of a semi truck. But nearly every room as heat & air conditioning for which I am very grateful. Even our towers are supplied with mini fridges to keep our water cold (water water everywhere!!). The USA brings the comforts of home wherever they go J But most of all, we appreciate all of you back home.

If you're interested, our unit photo album is online at http://www.PictureTrail.com/gid18260919  
PASSWORD: thanks4u2

God Bless
 SGT Tiffany Ann Reynolds

T. Reynolds 
PO BOX 5 
APO AE 09391

Hello, first of all I would like to thank you for your support. Second I would like to tell you that my handwriting is not that good (sometimes I can’t even read my own handwriting) so that is why I am typing this letter. I am 35 years old. Married and no kids, but I have 6 nieces and nephews, so I think that is enough. First of all I was born in Kansas but I claim San Antonio, Texas. My dad retired after 20 years in the Air Force in Texas. My parents have been divorced since I was 12 or 13 years old, my dad found someone else. I have one older sister, she is 38 years old, she has 5 kids 2 girls (1 20 yo and one 5 yo) and 3 boys (one 18 yo and 3 yo twins). I have been in the army 16 years. I am a SSG (Staff Sergeant) E-6. I am a wheeled and track (tank) mechanic, but for the past 2 years I have had an office job. I have been stationed in Germany for over 11 years. These 11 years have been spread out (1 year, then 3 years, then over 7 years). I am married to a full blooded German. I met my now wife at the end of 1998, went to Fort Hood for 2 years and on Sept 11, 2001 we had our court wedding in Denmark. Yes you read it right, when we got off the ferry from Denmark we heard about the attacks. Some of my hobbies include watching the San Antonio spurs play, the Dallas Cowboys play. I am not into baseball or any college sports. My other hobbies are also watching tv and movies. I watch pretty much anything. I am also into wrestling (WWE) I know that stuff is fake, I also like watching ultimate fighting Champion, that’s where two guys beat each other up. Of course me being a mechanic I am also into cars. I don’t watch nascar on a daily basis, but I will watch just a few laps. I am very much into Chevy. I use to own a 1986 Monte Carol LS. Now I own a 1998 Camero Super Sport; both those cars are dark blue in color. I am also in home and car audio. In Germany, not too sure if you guys heard about the autobaun, but it’s like a highway with no speed limits. I have had my camero over 150 mph on the autobahn, my wife had it at about 145 mph and I had to go faster than her and of course I did. Here in Iraq it’s getting a little cooler. It can get over 120 degrees during the summer and right now it gets as low as 40 degrees at night. Well I hope that I will hear from you soon.

Brian E. Rettig
HHC Co.,
412 th ASB
APO AE 09391

How are you doing? My name is SPC Oren Reece. I’m a member of the 101st ABN DIV out of Fort Campbell, KY, now serving in Iraq. My SUF is actually a resident of Florida from St. Lucie County, about 45 minutes south of Daytona. I want to thank you very much for your generosity. I’m so blessed to have such kind people out there who are praying for us in the military. My God bless you and the rest of your family for all the good work you do. I ask that you and your congregation continue to pray for all the men and women of the armed force as they are deployed all over the world in the fight against terrorism. Have a happy holiday.

God Bless you again,

SPC Oren Reece
FSC 1-187 3rd BCT
101st ABN Division
FOB Striker APO AE 09344

From: Roy Reyna 
mailto: reynar_99@yahoo.com  
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 3:11 PM 
To: swilliamson1@cfl.rr.com 
Subject: Hello

Hello my name is Rogelio but my friends call me "Roy" I just wanted to say thank you very much for your support and for the care package you sent me. The socks were a wonderful idea, they are hard to come by here. I appreciate you as well and thank you for your prayers as well.

Just a little info about myself I am from a small town in Texas called Mission. I have one brother and one sister. I have been away from Mission for a few years but I still call it home.

I want you to know that even though this is my second time here in the desert in the past 36 months I love and enjoy what I do. I very proud to serve.

Once again thanks for everything and its my pleasure to make your acquaintance.

God Bless

Roy