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Hi Steve,
One of my men, SSG Jeff Alberts, recently wrote your organization and forwarded your site to me, so I thought I’d follow up his email. My unit is a very small Military Transition Team that works embedded with the Iraqi Army in Al Hillah, Iraq, south of Baghdad. We live in a small, secure compound and don’t get many comforts that the rest of the army get living on the larger bases. Needless to say, we do search a little for ways to keep our mind off the current circumstances we find ourselves in. We are surrounded in a world of concrete, as you can see by the attached pictures. Several of us are climbers of various types (we are from Alaska, after all), and I’m a pretty avid adventure racer when not deployed () We were looking at these sullen walls when the idea hit us that we really need to try and take advantage of them and try and build a climbing wall. Bottom line is, what ever we build, it will be subject to mortar and rocket attacks and it likely won’t redeploy with us, so we are looking for donations of old, used, even broken (we’ll fix em somehow, we break everything over here…) climbing holds so we can create our ‘master piece’ training grounds and be better prepared to get back to real climbing when we get out of Iraq. So, can you help us out or direct me to any resources that might be able to assist? My men would greatly appreciate it and you can freely exploit us for whatever kind of advertising or public awareness you can get…I just know that my guys would greatly appreciate the change to their scenery.
Thanks for your consideration,
Major Marc Hoffmeister
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