Photo By Denise alford | Warrant Officer Lukasz Sobcak opens one of many Christmas packages during a holiday...... read more read more
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“Wesolych Swiat” means Merry Christmas in Polish. On Christmas Eve at Camp Eggers Polish soldiers and their US co-workers celebrated the holiday with traditional Polish foods, Christmas trees and presents from various Polish-American groups in the states.
The soldiers make up the Personnel Security Detachment for Deputy Commander International Security Cooperation and all of them volunteered to deploy to Afghanistan.
“I volunteered out of a sense of duty, it just felt like what I should do,” said Warrant Officer Lukasz Sobczak .
Due to a complicated postal system at home receiving mail while deployed is somewhat difficult. US military co-workers reached out to various Polish-American groups in the states and the groups responded with individually addressed Christmas packages for the entire detachment.
“I was excited when the boxes began to arrive, I had never seen so many boxes all in one place,” said Captain Andrez Kucharski assistant to the general.
“I wasn’t expecting this, it’s really nice to do something that is our tradition even though we’re here in Kabul,” said Sobczak.
Brig. Gen. Jozef Nasiadka, Deputy Commanding General, International Security Cooperation expressed his gratitude for the kindness of their co-workers and his appreciation for the hard work and accomplishments of the unit.
| Date Taken: | 12.24.2010 |
| Date Posted: | 12.24.2010 12:35 |
| Story ID: | 62579 |
| Location: | KABUL, AF |
| Web Views: | 157 |
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