Jim: Thanks for the info...I'll just send some type cement that is NON flammable.. Thanks, Chuck
-----Original Message----- >From: jim phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Aug 30, 2006 9:27 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [VFB] Question about shipping materials to Iraq > >After having just returned from South Korea where I was buying feathers, >fur, chennile, etc... The only thing the APO (Army Post Office) will not >allow is something flamable (some head cement), explosive, matches, lighter >fluid and so forth. Believe it or not but there are fly fishers in Iraq as >well as S. Korea. we started a Korean-American Fly Fishing and Friendship >Club that had civilian employees, solders (including a 2 star general) and >Koreans. some were professional (had own shops and were guides/teachers etc. >Just had a ball for the last five years I was there. Now have retired and am >in Northern CA; remodeling my house, waiting for my furnature to arrive and >so on. Have not fished yet but maybe I can get a kitchen pass this three day >week end to do a few hours at Eagle Lake. My fly fishing equipment is also >somewhere on the ocean so will have to use a jig and bobber if able to go. >Pray for me!! hehe. >Regards Jim >Deserttrout06 > > >On 8/30/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Chuck: >> Were they students at the Baghdad School of Fly Fishing? * >> http://members.cox.net/flybox/BSFF.htm* >> ** >> There shouldn't be any problem getting stuff to them. Though you may want >> to check out the web site and see where to send the stuff. >> On your "This makes me wonder" post. There are many things involved in >> getting supplies into the pipeline. We are limited by what we can buy. It >> has to be made in America or grown in America. It is sometimes hard to find >> a source here in the states that produce the item needed at a "price >> determined to be fair and reasonable." >> My area is food and the OCONUS troops do eat well in all areas, >> including SW Asia. Far better than I ate when I was in the service. They >> don't subsist only on MRE's over there, even when they are in the field. The >> orders for the holiday meals should be coming in shortly. >> ** >> Jerry C >> "All things considered, I'd rather be in Philadelphia." >> >> In a message dated 8/30/2006 21:10:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time, >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >> Folks: I found some soldiers on anysoldier.com who say they wish somebody >> would send them some fly tying materials, to give them a hobby during their >> off duty hours..Well, I am putting together a little "starter kit" to send, >> but then I wondered about laws about sending feathers, fur, hair etc to >> other countries. Does anybody know where I might find this info about what >> IS and is NOT legal??? I searched the anysoldier site, but believe it or >> not, on their list of can't and cannot's they didn't list "fly tying kit"... >> Can ya'll believe that??? ..I mean.. I think our men and women should be GI >> issued a fly tying kit in boot camp right??? LOL Seriously.. I don't want to >> ship things just to have it destroyed, or worse, like having the "Po Po" >> show up at my door... Thanks, Chuck >> >> Warrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!! Eagle!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >> >> >>
