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US Marine Colonel Simcock, the commander of USMC Regimental Combat Team (RCT) 6 in Iraq, is asking for 6,000 positive emails to his Marines. That's one email for each Marine in his RCT command. COL Simcock is concerned about the effect of the negative barrage that those Marines are getting through the electronic media.

So far, they've only mustered 2,000 emails. That's a crying shame compared to the amount of crap I get daily in email. This is a legitimate request. It's not one of the \"little Johnny wants to break the world's record in Christmas cards\" situations. It takes only 30 seconds of your time.

Here's the email address:

RCT-6lettersfromh@ gcemnf-wiraq. usmc.mil

If you're reading this email, then you can probably click on the address, type a few words, and then hit \"send\" to be all done. It doesn't have to be the Gettysburg Address. Something as simple as \"Hello, Marine. We thank you for what you're doing. You are in a noble task. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Best wishes & get home soon\" is more than sufficient.

An excerpt from an interview with the Colonel:

GRIM: Is there anything that you and your Marines need that we could send you?
COL. SIMCOCK: (Chuckles.) I'll tell you what, the one thing that all Marines want to know about -- and that includes me and everyone within Regimental Combat Team 6 -- we want to know that the American public are behind us. We believe that the actions that we're taking over here are very, very important to America. We're fighting a group of people that, if they could, would take away the freedoms that America enjoys. If anyone -- you know, just sit down, jot us -- throw us an e- mail, write us a letter, let us know that the American public are behind us. Because we watch the news just like everyone else. It's broadcast over here in our chow halls and the weight rooms, and we watch that stuff, and we're a little bit concerned sometimes that America really doesn't know what's going on over here, and we get sometimes concerns that the American public isn't behind us and
doesn't see the importance of what's going on. So that's something I think that all Marines, soldiers and sailors would like to hear from back home, that in fact, yes, they think what we're doing over here is important and they are in fact behind us.

DO IT NOW!!! IT JUST TAKES A MINUTE OF YOUR TIME .. THAT'S NOT MUCH TO ASK FOR WHAT THEY'RE DOING FOR US!

..... AND, PLEASE PASS THIS EMAIL ALONG TO YOUR FRIENDS! ... SHOW OUR MARINES
WE CARE!

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Done, with appreciation and honor.

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Done.

And they got one from the Netherlands.

Good action TheBigThug and that on this day

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Done

A quick note. The address listed has a couple of extra spaces that need to be removed in order to work. Here it is without the spaces:

RCT-6lettersfromh@gcemnf-wiraq.usmc.mil

Just passed it on to a bunch of friends too.

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Strange, yesterday i send a mail and few hours later i got i back. So i tried again (with that link from IcePirate) and again i got it back. Tonight my latest try, but it is strange that my mail is returning.
Somebody else with this problem?

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Hey Dutchy,
If the problem persist, shoot it to me and I'll be happy to forward it. They may have some kind of filter to prevent emails from anywhere other than the US, or something along those lines.

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Ice Pirate, see your mail. I got mine for the 4th time back. Thanks, that you want to help. I want to let them know that they got support from everywhere.

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Doesn't like German servers either Dutchy. I was, however, able to do it from my .mil addy.

OC

Happy to help Dutchy. I know your message will make a world of difference in their morale.

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Done

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Thank you so much Thug for bringing this to our attention. I've forwarded your message over to another site I frequint, wood working related, and have had 12 people there, that I know of, send off emails, as well as 3 of my family members and 3 more friends from here at work.

It may be a drop in the bucket, but even drops make waves.

Thanks again Thug.

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Done Thug, and Glad to Do it !


Goose

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