St. John's Group Email Thank you for the Ditty Bags

As we prepare to fill Ditty Bags at G4U this week I thought it would be good to share this e-mail from one of the men who received our care package.  Thanks, Linda

 

My name is Jeff Pearson and I am with 3rd Battalion 4th Marines out of Twentynine Palms, CA.  The package you sent was received by our Battalion Aid Station or (BAS) and given to me do distribute to my Corpsman.  I am the ranking medical person on this Command Out Post or (COP) and I made sure my Corpsman received the package you sent.  We are in the Navy but we are the medical aspect of the Marine Corps.  We make up roughly 65 people of the over 1000 Marines that we deployed with.  We are comprised of 4 medical providers, including two doctors, and two Independent Duty Corpsman (IDC) and the rest of the Navy personnel are all Corpsman.  A Corpsman job is to be side-by-side with the Marines when they are out on patrol in case they should need a medic for any reason.  We are considered "Healers not Killers".  We are in Afghanistan and we have been for awhile.  We still have awhile left, and it is nice to get packages like yours from the States.  It brings a piece of home when we are so far from ours.  The Stars from the Flag were very touching and I had to play referee to make sure they were distributed fairly, so thank you for that.  We have solar showers and a hygiene area, but truthfully we rarely have time or energy to take a full showers, so the soap and wet wipes are like gold out here.  We really do appreciate getting things like that.  I received a pink Care Bear that reminds me of my daughter.  She is only four and this is the longest she has gone without her dad.  To be honest she is probably dealing with it better than I am, so little things like that, that remind us of home really help.  I see that you are from Missouri, and the closest any of us are to that part of the country is Texas, so not to far from you guys.  Emails are great, fast and easy, but there is nothing like receiving a handwritten letter and your package had about 10 in there.  We keep the letters on a board and it helps remind us why we do the job we do, so thanks again.  I can't express our gratitude and appreciation enough and if there is anything you want, need, or questions that you might have please do not hesitate to email me back and ask.  I hope this reaches you with the pride and excitement that I can't convey in words of an email, but please know that it is there.  Thanks again.   Sincerely,   HM1 Jeff Pearson 3rd Battalion 4th Marines

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