Our Next Mission

Posted by Alan Burks, May 9th, 2010 5:04PM

Pete was a member of the 4th Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment.

There are 5,000 members of the Regiment.

4/2 SCR is in the process of deploying to Afghanistan. For security reasons, we don’t know where. But we do know it will be a hot spot. That’s when the Cavalry gets called in.

The Burks Country Store will redeploy with them.

The “store” is where the care packages we send are made available to the Regiment. Free.

We are in the process now of gathering the goods that we will ship.

Here’s where we can use your help.

You can donate goods directly that we will pack and ship.

The wish list of the troops includes:

-Healthy snacks (Clif Bars, PowerBars, etc.)

-Salty snacks (pistachios, Spicy Cheetohs, etc.)

-Chewing gum

-Red Vines and Gummi Bears

-Powdered Gatorade packets

-White socks

-Hand sanitizer

-Xbox games and consoles

-Notes from you and your family

-Beef Jerky

-Playing cards

-DVDs

-Toothbrushes, toothpaste, mouthwash

Contact us and we will arrange to get your donated goods.

We also can use cash donations. Our largest expense is postage. The U.S. Mail is the only means of shipping goods into a war zone. It is expensive, but worth it.

Anything you can do to help us help our troops is greatly appreciated by the men and women who wear the Cloth of the Nation.

14 Responses to “Our Next Mission”

• • Samantha Stalnaker
  • 8:07am | May 14, 2010

  My thoughts and prayers have been with you and your family. I wish I would of known about your website sooner for your amazing cause. After I was posting my donation I noticed the need for toothpaste, toothbrushes and mouth wash...my specialty. I work at a private dental practice in plano and I would love to send somethings your way...Im in contact with my colgate and sun burst reps and we would like to help the cause. I would like to get more details on how I can get these items your way! -Samantha