December 25th, 2006
I called CSM Beyard in Kuwait late Christmas Day in the evening. By that time it was early Tuesday morning, December 26th, 2006.
I dialed the number and he picked up the phone.
“This is Command Sergeant Major Beyard.”
It was as simple as that. However he was busy and we did not spend a long time on the phone. The telephone connection was good, but there was a great deal of activity on Tom’s end and he had a hard time hearing us at times.
My brother-in-law, a retired U.S. Army Colonel had a chance to extend best wishes and thanks. The Colonel asked him what he needed and Tom answered “coffee,” right away.
“We drink a lot of coffee… and finding good coffee is hard…,” Tom said.
He wished everyone home a Merry Christmas.
So, as I keyboard, coffee is wrapped in a box to go out in the mail Tuesday morning.
My wife is going to take it into the Post Office first thing in the morning. I have heard reports that filling out the paperwork to ship packages to the troops in the Middle East is a chore. Please let that not be the case. I’ll post an update as soon as I get a report from my wife.
Sooo, we now know he needs coffee.
Everyone has an empty shoe box lying around the house. I just grabbed an empty shoe box and threw a can of coffee in it with a few “Westminster” things lying around for “packing” and taped it shut and addressed it. It took only minutes.
The address is:
CSM Thomas Beyard
TF AVCRAD 06-08
Camp Arifjan, Kuwait
APO AE 09366
Kevin, December 25th, 2006
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