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SSgt David M. Simons
- U. S. Marines -
Afghanistan
SSgt David M. Simons
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(This address has been requested 0 times.) (NOTE **)
Marine's Title: THE PLATOON SERGEANT
APO/FPO: FPO AP (Note 1*)
Added here: 30 June 2012
End date: 27 Nov 2012 (Note 3*)
Contact for approx number of Males: 62, Females: 5 (Note 5*)
Unit is from: California (Note 6*)
We welcome SSgt David Simons back!!  Old page is HERE.

Note: SSgt David M. Simons was dropped from this list on 27 Dec 2012 due to 60 days of no contact.

28 Oct 2012:
Dear Supporters,

Just wanted to give you guys an update. Here we are in Afghanistan – There’s limited electricity and no plumbing here, but you won’t hear much complaining from the Marines who call this tiny outpost home.
Patrol Base XXXX sits on the western side of volatile XXXX, a relatively lawless region just east of XXXX province’s XXXX district.
Marines here engaged in frequent firefights here until mid-October, when it appears the frigid temperatures at night led to the annual end of Afghanistan’s unofficial fighting season. They’re certainly still on the lookout for insurgent activity, but it appears the peak point has passed. We are doing good and we continue to take the fight to Taliban. The Marines have taken a break to recieve some time off and we recieved a lot of care packages from all over the United States and I wanted to say Thank you all for supporting us. These young men have come to WAR and have proven themselves as Warriors and you all should be proud to say our Marines have shown just what it means to be Marines
Thank You


21 Sep 2012
Dear Supporters,

Just wanted to give you an update: The Marines are doing good. We continue to take the fight to the bad guys. We are making history and when the sun sets it will be told that the Marines of 1st Battalion 1st Marines Weapons were the ones doing it. There have been a few stories already about us already here is a link for one off the Department of Defense web page: http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=117580 Long days and long nights but the guys are very upbeat. Dont have access to showers but we have plenty of bottle water for bottle showers. Half the time I dont know if the guys have been weathered by the sun or if it is the Afgan soil. For a while we have not recieved to much mail, but the guys have been real up beat about it. Would like to see more canned food and ramen noodles. If there are any fitness books and magazines the guys love reading those. Also any type of entertainment like movies or psp games or movies. We have a few computers and a couple psp's that we pass around. I know I cant give you numbers about how many guys we have here, but I do have alot of guys, bigger than a high school football team. Thank you and we will be looking foreward to hearing from you all.
Staff Sergeant Simons/ United States Marine Corps


22 Jul 2012
I first want to say Thank you to everybody for their support. I first used anysoldier/anymarine on my first deployment to Iraq and it helped so much with the morale of our Marines and so here I am again gaining more support for our guys. These young men mean so much and to be able to see the overwelming support is good for their moral support as well. I will try and post as much as I can.
Thank you


30 Jun 2012
If you worry that America is no longer a home of heroes I profess you should not worry any more. These young men are exactly the kind of citizen-warriors that America needs to fight our wars abroad and to win battles. These men are courageous enough to fight and compassionate enough to care.
The following is a list of items the Marines are specifically asking for. The most often requested items: letters, cigarettes, batteries, socks, drink mixes, and reading material; in that order. If your Marine does not need the items that you send, s/he'll share with other Marines.
Entertaiment devices:
music players and video game and movie devices. For many Marines, travel-size toiletries or smaller containers are prefered for storage and easy portability.
Baby Wipes for personal hygiene
Toothpaste, toothbrushes,Shampoo,Deoderant
Liquid body wash ,Hand Sanitizer, Lotion
Shaving cream ,Disposable razors, electric razors, battery-operated razors ,Toilet Paper
Kleenex (Travel size packets)
Batteries (AA, AAA, C) ,Photos from home
Cigarettes, chew ,Newspaper clippings, comics from Sunday's paper, news from home ,Books, Magazines ,sunglasses Eyeglass wipes
Socks, Socks, Socks!
underwear, socks, t-shirts Boot socks
Boot laces ,Tactical Duct Tape
(try to send military green, tan, black, dark gray; avoid lighter colors)
Electrical tape Flashlight with a red lens
1- and 2-gallon ziplock plastic bags,
Coffee, hot cocoa mix, coffee mixes, tea
Lemonade mix, Koolade mix, Tang mix, Gatorade mix (pre-sweetened) Gum, Lifesavers, Mints
Nuts, sunflower seeds, peanuts, trail mix
Power bars, protein bars, nutritional bars
Beef jerky, beef summer sausage (non-perishable; labeled USDA Beef) Small bags of snacks or individually wrapped snacks Pop Tarts, cereal bars, "milk & cereal" bars, granola bars Candy and candy bars (chocolate will melt) Torengos and canned nacho cheese dip ,Jalepeno velveeta and crackers

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(NOTE *): Effective 1 May 2006 this web site added a major layer of security to our contacts' information. This change is necessary to protect our troops and ensure that Any Soldier will continue to operate.
The ONLY changes are that the addresses of our contacts are now hidden and the number of addresses you can get are limited. You may obtain addresses simply by clicking on the link provided and correctly filling out the form, the address will then be emailed to you immediately.

(NOTE **): The number shown is how many times a form was submitted requesting this address. This does NOT necessarily mean that this contact will be helped by that many folks. Rule of thumb is that anything 5 requests or less may in fact be no support at all. No way to tell exactly unless the contact lets you know in his/her update how much support they are getting.

(Note 1.): Note that postage to APO AE and FPO AE (E = Europe) is only to NY where the connection to the APO/FPO (APO = Army Post Office)(FPO = Fleet Post Office) is, or to San Francisco for APO AP and FPO AP (P = Pacific), so you don't pay postage all the way to Iraq/Afghanistan. You might consider picking contacts closer to your mailing area to help cut the cost of mailing. If you live on the East Coast, pick "AE", West Coast, pick "AP", Midwest, well...uh, Thank You for your Support! ;)

New with us (December 2005) you might notice "APO AA" and "FPO AA". This is for units in the Caribbean/South America. Normally. However, due to the nature of some units they may be in Iraq but have an address showing "FPO AA". Mail addresses to "AA" goes out of Miami, Florida.

(Note 2.): Why are military addresses weird? There isn't a street address or city. What gives? Correct, just about everything about the military is weird to civilians. Military units are very mobile, they move around a lot, often they even become part of another unit. The APO (Army Post Office) and FPO (Fleet Post Office) assign APO and FPO numbers as needed, they are NOT static. An APO/FPO number may be for a large unit, or a location. An APO/FPO number for Baghdad today may be for Frankfurt tomorrow.

(Note 3.): The "Expect to not mail past" date is only an approximate and is one of the least reliable things on this web site. It is because of this that you must check often before you send anything to this unit. There are a few reasons this date is not reliable, to include: it IS the Military, we ARE dealing with the APO/FPO/DPO. The only thing that does not change in the military is that things will change. PLEASE NOTE that a Contact is dropped off our active list 30 days PRIOR to their date leaving to help avoid mail bouncing.

(Note 4.): (Removed for OPSEC reasons)

(Note 5.): The lines, "Contact with approx number of Soldiers:" and "Approx how may Female Soldiers:" have NOTHING to do with unit strength. They are approximately how many other Troops the Contacts believe they can get packages to. This helps you understand that you should not send 100 packages to someone who only deals with 10 Troops.
Don't forget that if your package is for a female Soldier, be sure to change "ATTN: Any Soldier®" to "ATTN: Any Female Soldier".

( Note 6.): This is simply where the unit this contact is from. This is NOT a true picture of the folks in the unit as most all units are made up of folks from all over the United States.) A "Composite Unit" is one made up of other units and is usually temporary for a particular mission.

( Note 7.): Updated APO/FPO/DPO mailing restrictions> courtesy of Oconus.com (gone now) (Note: About Restriction "U2": "U2 - Limited to First Class Letters", Box "R" is for retired personnel that live overseas and are still authorized an APO/FPO box. Their address will be something like Box 3345R. Doubt you will see anything like that in Afghanistan or Iraq or ...)(Please Note: Sometime in August 2013, Oconus.com changed the code on their page and our form doesn't work with them anymore, so a link to their page is the best we can do, sorry.)


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