Wow. Now that is cool! :-)
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Thanks for sharing Rob :-)
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thats awesome.. i'm polish, and it was great seeing some brothern over there. Thanks for sending them some smokes.. great job!
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That's amazing!! Kudos to everyone who participated.
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That is great. Thanks for sharing it with us here.:-)
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Very cool, glad to see stogies and gifts getting to their rightful homes.
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Wow. That certificate is cool looking.
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I will see if my wife or her sister can still read enough Polish to translate if you like.
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:-)
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That's very cool that you BOTLs would do that for some of our brothers in arms. As a guy who deployed with the US Army many times over the years, i can tell you it feels great to know that folks back home--even strangers to us-- care about us enough to send care packages and well wishes. I'm sure what you did here for these Polish troops they will never forget, and not only did it lift thier spirits, but I think it also helps foster goodwill between our two countries at a grass roots level. Well done!:-)
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Uhm, guys, I kinda already posted a translation. If one of the mods would like to copy and paste it into the OP that would be great.

Thank you but I can't stress this enough that although I did play a part most of the credit goes to the Gorillas/Inmates that made this possible.

Certainly I included several bundles of cigars myself but the vast majority >800 were donated by the Jungle.

This is what makes this community absolutely amazing, the fact that we care about others and hold very closely to the unwritten BOTL code.

I salute all of you for the help and in retrospect (and this part will sound strange on the surface) I am happy that there was no mention of Club Stogie in the papers. It would really bother me if some guy with bundles of cash had purchased the credit for what all the BOTL's did/do.

Cheers,
Rob
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Consider it done.
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Glad to see that the smokes got there, very cool Rob.
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:-)Nicely done! That's really cool! :-)
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:-)

That is definitely a wonderful thing. :-)
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Very cool Rob and thanks for sharing here.
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Thanks Pnoon, much appreciated.

Thanks guys it certainly felt great to be able to make that delivery. I did run into a couple of problems at the start of trying to arrange transport to the troops as the Polish Embassy was hesitant to get involved in arranging transport.

Once we communicated more clearly the two coolers flew out of the U.S. on the same plane as the Polish president. It was kind of a funny story because they didn't anticipate just how much room 1000 cigars along with humidification actually takes.

So in any case, the Polish President was visiting the States on some official business and the Polish government arranged with his staff to have the two coolers flown on his plane.

It's possible that the Colonel that I was dealing with was just telling me a tall tale but I doubt he would risk looking dumb over something like that so I'm inclined to believe him.

I'll tell ya, truth is stranger than fiction more often than not.

Cheers,
Rob
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Allow me to elaborate on some of the other things that were contributed aside from cigars.

50 V-Cutters.
Lots of water pillows & humidification devices.
U.S. Military patches and, if I remember correctly, U.S. Aviation scarves and the like.
Cigar decals and stickers.
Several personal notes & letters to the troops ( I didn't read them as they weren't to me)

All in all I dare say that I got so much out of this that it's hard to put into words. The feeling of brotherhood from the Jungle/Inmates and the feeling of getting those stogies to the troops was, and still is, just amazing.

Cheers,
Rob
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Awesome! Thanks for sharing that and for representing us so well.
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Very cool indeed.
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