Photo By Sgt. 1st Class Joshua Brandenburg | Airmen with the Wyoming Air National Guard load holiday mail on to their C-130...... read more read more
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CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait - The holidays are a time for family and friends; a time for loved ones to gather and be merry, but if you’re in the military and deployed across the world it can be just another day.
“Here [Kuwait] it doesn’t feel like Christmas,” said Spc. Julia Garza, a shower laundry and clothing repair specialist with the 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), 1st Sustainment Command (Theater) Operational Command Post. “I worry about being forgotten.”
That’s why the Joint Military Mail Terminal on Camp Arifjan ramped up their process and pushed out more mail to more service members. More mail means more packages could reach the Soldiers, Airmen, Sailors and Marines throughout Southwest Asia just in time for Christmas.
“All the mail coming in from the United States, coming into Kuwait, ends up landing there at the JMMT and the Soldiers there are the ones that break it down, get the packages on pallets and get it down to the Air Force so that they can fly it up to the folks in Iraq,” said Lt. Col. Jerome Kuczero, director of postal operations division, 14th Human Resources Sustainment Center, 1st TSC.
The JMMT, under 1st TSC, normally processes around 2,500 pounds of mail a day but for the holiday rush they managed to process and move nearly five tons of mail Dec. 23, from Kuwait to Iraq – the largest push of the year.
“Christmas time is the time everybody is looking forward to having… family time, and they’re not going to have that,” said Kuczero. “What we can do, what we can try to do is make their Christmas a little better, make sure that they get that piece of home up there to them.”
Garza went on to say, that each package she receives or sees someone else receive makes her feel like everyone has someone who cares. “They are [care packages] very much needed to keep moral up.”
| Date Taken: | 12.23.2014 |
| Date Posted: | 12.26.2014 06:29 |
| Story ID: | 151117 |
| Location: | CAMP ARIFJAN, KW |
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