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Hello, and welcome to My Dad Is A Vet "Sponsor a Marine in Iraq Program"


My friend at work was sadden to hear that her one and only son had proudly enlisted in the USMC to serve his country in Iraq.

Her son could of gone on to college but instead he made the choice to join the MARINES!

Her son Robert is an extremely talented Artist and could of gone on to pursue a career in Art or graphic design but instead he decided to serve his country during a time when most young men his age are playing sports, video games and dating.

Robert Triol was deployed to IRAQ this August along with many other sons' and daughter of our country.

Robert has stepped up to the plate and is batting for the home team "USA" We are his biggest fans.
It's time that we do something for Robert Triol by showing him how much we care.

Let's face it we are home in our warm houses watching the WAR! from a far on our TV sets. We live in FREEDOM because of men and women that are serving our country today by making the ultimate sacrifice fighting in combat during WAR time the least we can is to honor them by never forgetting their dedication you us and what our country represents to the WOLRD FREEDOM! Let's honor them by not forgetting them.

My Dad Is A Vet is sponsoring Robert Triol while he is deployed in IRAQ by hosting this web site.

Here's a message from Robert's mother Linda Triol:

Hi everyone --


Rob called me from Iraq today at 10 a.am. Tuesday (9 PM.. in Iraq) -- they are all doing well and have had no problems. Other platoons in his company are seeing some action, Rob's platoon has not had any conflicts, although they "found some stuff". Rob can't tell me where he is or what he's doing.

They've been told to be extra careful because Ramadan is coming up, bad time -- apparently a Muslim prayer is worth x10 during Ramadan. Personally, I like the deal I get with Jesus.

The weather has been good, in the 80's during they day, nights are starting to get cold.

I asked him what they need -- Top of the list is:

1. Chef Boy-R-Dee type things
2. Anything out of a can like Dinty Moore stew and other high carbo stuff with sauce .. the MOST prized          thing.
3. Baby wipes
4. Crackers
5. AA and AAA batteries
6. Magazines (no naked allowed).
7. Pringles - box of 24 individual servings
8. Keebler cookies - 100 calorie packets
9. Beef Jerky - original flavor
10. Slim Jims
11. Lifesavers - Pep-o-mint individually wrapped Cremesavers - Tropical fruit flavored individually wrapped
12. Big Red gum
13. Angel Soft - TP 4pk
14. Huggies - baby wipes in 2 small reclosable containers Wet ones - small pack
15. Kleenix - their new moistened towelettes
15. Purell hand sanitizer - 2 small bottles
16. Chap Stick
17. Zip Lock plastic bags

If sending packages you probably have to fill out some sort of declaration of package contents, do not declare anything of value as stealing of these packages is apparently commonplace.

Do not send phone cards because they won't work from Iraq.


Please send your gifts LCPL Robert Triol his address is:



LCPL Triol, Robert W.
3/4 WPNS Co. CAAT II
Unit 41625
FPOAP 96426-1625

Prayers, letters, and care packages are of course welcome. He will communicate with us by phone or e-mail at any opportunity, I'll keep you informed. He will be in the desert (as far as we know) outside of
Al Qa'im in Western Iraq, close to the Syrian border, north of the Euphrates river. Their mission is to repel insurgent forces crossing from Syria. Rob's main job is 50 caliber machine gunner atop a Humvee. He says they are going over well-equipped.

 

Click on the Photos section of this web site to see pictures of Robert. I think someone took them with a cell phone. Rob is on the far left in both pictures. Thanks again for your prayers.



Love, Bob & Linda Triol


A special thank you to Cub Scout Pack 3825 (United Methodist Church, Rob's Cub Scout pack) has just adopted Rob and his platoon, they are mailing Halloween packages to them. EV Free Camarillo is supporting Rob and 2 other deployed Marines and are sending out supplies hopefully this week.













We are asking you to join us by sending Robert any spare gifts that you can mail to him for example

So ask yourself this question what do you get out of helping Robert Triol?

Here's a couple of answers for you.......

1. In return you'll receive the biggest gift that Robert can give you "Your Freedom"
   seems to me like it's a more then a fair trade.

2. In addition we'll post your families name or your name on this site as a proud
   supporter and sponsor of a Soldier in Iraq not just any Soldier a
   United States Marine!

Please visit Robert's contact us page to send him some home town news, prayers and the hope that we have not forgotten him

Thanks for Visiting!

My Dad Is A Vet
Ruby Alexandra Beloz
Robert Triol is serving in Iraq with the USMC


  • Questions on mailing Packages to Robert Triol and Soldiers in Iraq:


  • The USPost office has a GREAT program......so have all your friends and family and church call the post office at 800-610-8734 and request a Military Care Kit.
  • This will get them a number of free shipping boxes (priority mail) tape, labels, and customs forms, delivered FREE right to your door.
  • The biggest tip  we can give youfor care packages is pack 'em with whatever you want, but just keep 'em in  the size of a shoe box.
  • The "Shoe Box" boxes at the Post offices are perfect. I think these are the boxes that come
  • in the kit, but maybe not.
  • It is suggested that you use the free white Priority Mail boxes from the local post office.
  • The trick is, that while heavy boxes usually seem like a deterrent to us, the APO and FPO mail systems fly their mail out based on the number of packages they can get on a pallet....not just on weight. So, if they can send more small boxes that weigh more, they'll send smaller ones rather than a lightweight large box! So, the smaller the better.

  • SPLITTING UP BOXES

  • This also gives the family a good reason to do what we call "split shipment.
  • If  Robert needs, say, 10 pkgs of baby wipes, 2 pks of TP and a load of disposable razors,
  • I'll put together 4 boxes.....splitting the items up so there are a few baby wipe pkgs in each, a couple rolls of TP, and a few razors. That way if one box is delayed, another might get thru first. Or, if one is damaged or lost, then he still gets what he needs....and, the most important reason of all....they're so mobile that they can't carry alot. So, by sending smaller but more frequent packages, they benefit, the FPO/APO system likes it, and we're always putting together another box for our boys :)

  • TIPS ABOUT SENDING FOOD!
  • TIPS FROM NAVY MOMS ONLINE:

  • I learned a little tip from a web group I belong to called Navy Moms Online (NMOL). If you're baking cookies or brownies to send overseas, particularly the desert, they usually are quite dry and hard by the time they arrive (of course, they get there quicker in smaller boxes!). So...the trick (they say) is to put them still warm into freezer containers and freeze them. This is supposed to seal moisture in the cookie, bu tnot let it go "bad" during shipment. I'm trying it for the first time tonight (mailing the box tomorrow) so I'll let you know how it goes. Rob loves homemade Tollhouse cookies, and the last few boxes I sent got there OK, but were really dry. He likes moist chewy cookies, so I'm trying the NMOL method.
  • I am full of ideas for care packages! Just holler, or let me know if you want me to, and I'll send (email) some of the "fun" packages I put together.


  • SENDING CANDY

  • For instance, I've started on Halloween packages. I bought the Halloween-themed Ziploc bags and pounds and pounds of non-meltable candies (yes, M&M's but no other chocolates....lots of candy corn in individual pkts, jawbreakers, SweetTarts, Necco wafers, Mary Janes, Red Hots, LemonHeads, etc). I sat and watched TV after work, stuffing one or two of each kind of candy in each baggie. Then, on my printer, I will print out little Halloween "cards" to include in each baggie that  has some Halloween clip art and says who the baggie is from.

  • PRECAUSIONS TO TAKE WHEN SENDING PACKAGES

  • (Like, they'll say Rob's Mom & Dad in Florida....no last names or specifi addresses, nothing specific or anything that would identify you to a name or address back home should the discarded candy baggie end up in the trash in a foreign country). Then a word or two thanking the recpiient for serving our country and being away from the traditions of their home, and wishing them a safe return home soon.
  • I'll start Thanksgiving and Christmas packages too, pretty soon. I would guess if you keep your boxes about shoe box size (say, as wide as 2 loaves of sliced bread but not as long as a loaf of french from the bakery, does that make sense???) then your packages should get to Rob's unit in under 3 weeks. Maybe 4, depending on how mobile they are. So, for me personally over the past 10 years of doing this kind of packages/mailing, Halloween is the deadline for Thanksgiving, and just prior to Thanksgiving is the mailing deadline for Christmas.
  • The post office will recommend dates in the next few weeks that are the dates they think by which you should mail overseas in order for it to get there on time.
  • The bottom line is, mailing earlier never hurts.
  • Once you put a box in the mail, it goes from whatever post office you sent it from, to the main post office in LA. Then it goes to the FPO in San Francisco (FPO AP is San Francisco, FPO AE is New York, NY; and FPO AA is Miami, FL).
  • You are blessed, because your boxes will go from LA to San Fran in one day by air!!! (Families in the Midwest will have to send to the same FPO in San Fran, but it will go by truck, and will take a week longer than your packages from the SoCalif. area).Once the boxes get to the FPO (Fleet Post Office), they'll be bagged/palleted and put on a plane for Europe. Once in Europe, they'll be resorted for their final region (i.e., Middle East, Orient, etc).
  • Then they go (in your case) to (probably) Bahrain or Saudi Arabia or Kuwait, for resort, then sent forward to the unit's general area, then resorted and sent forward to their camp or forward area. The military handles them all the way from San Fran to Rob's mail call : ) I've rambled on and on about packages


  • A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO MARGIE FOR ALL OF HER GREAT TIPS


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Tips on what to package and send packages to Soldiers in Iraq