Wranglers celebrate Father’s Day in style

Photo By Amy Christopherson | Spc. James Jamison, a heavy-equipment repairer with the 1729th Forward Support Maintenance Company, 749th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 4th Sustainment Brigade, 310th Expeditionary Sustainment Command and a Baltimore native, answers a trivia question during a June 19 Father’s Day celebration at Memorial Hall on Contingency Operating Base Adder, Iraq.  

CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE ADDER, IRAQ

06.21.2011

Story by Spc. Amy Christopherson 

4th Sustainment Brigade

CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE ADDER, Iraq – Not to be outdone by the mothers at Contingency Operating Base Adder, Iraq, deployed fathers received their special treatment during a Father’s Day celebration at Memorial Hall, June 19.

Dads were treated to music, food, games and prizes at the Sunday night party. They won gifts for answering trivia questions correctly and played dominos and card games.

“After the Mother’s Day celebration, the guys asked for this,” said Sgt. Suzanne Sampson, a New York, N.Y., native and garrison contracting assistant with the 4th Special Troops Battalion, 4th Sustainment Brigade, 310th Expeditionary Sustainment Command. “I was hoping we would have a lot of people tonight. This is more than I expected.”

While Sampson brought up the idea of the celebration, she said many others supported the idea and helped her expand on it. They received donations of gift cards from a variety of retailers and restaurants to include gift bags that were handed out as prizes. The bags also included ties, MP3 player speakers, clocks, cigars, cologne and body wash.

“It’s always nice to get people to come out and hang out,” Sampson said. “I’m looking forward to doing more things for my unit and the people at Adder. It isn’t just 4th [Sust. Bde.] soldiers here today, it’s people from all over Adder.”

Staff Sgt. Darrell Allen, a Houston, Texas native and senior plans noncommissioned officer with the 4th Sust. Bde., answered a trivia question correctly to win a gift bag with things like shaving cream, candy and a water gun.

“It was a cool party,” Allen said. “We were dancing and I filled up the water gun right away.”

Allen, who has two kids waiting for him to come home, said last year was a more typical Father’s Day. He and his family went out for breakfast and visited some friends.

Approximately 100 people were in attendance throughout the evening, including soldiers, airmen and civilians.

• Date Taken: 06.21.2011
• Date Posted: 06.21.2011 09:53
• Story ID: 72478
• Location: CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE ADDER, IQ