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Created:	Wed Nov 15 1989
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133.0. "Books required." by PEKING::NASHD () Wed Nov 28 1990 09:44

This entry has been requested and for a good reason....
    
    
    Dave N.
           
    
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TOPDOC::AHERN "Dennis the Menace"                    13 lines  27-NOV-1990 14:36
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    If anybody has some surplus paperbacks they would like to put to good
    use, there are some marines sitting in the sand who have asked for
    some reading material.  It doesn't have to be great literature, but you
    better rip off the cover if it has anything that might offend Saudi
    sensibilities, like bosomy regency damsels, etc.  Also, better hold
    onto anything by Salmaan Rushdie.  
    
    Send via 4th class book rate to:
    
    		Captain C. F. Huenefeld
    		HQ Btry, 11th Marines
    		FPO San Francisco, CA  96608-5515

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
133.1	Pen pals	PEKING::NASHD		`Wed Nov 28 1990 09:45`	3
	And what about pen-pals for them? Dave
133.2	LETTERS FOR THE BOYS	PEKING::BECKC	Whats up Doc	`Wed Nov 28 1990 13:07`	8
	What a good idea, no doubt the guys are probably bored out of their minds, especially with the heat. We could write to them, and remind them of how cold it is the UK eta eta Where do we go to find an address to write to. Dustie
133.3		PEKING::NASHD		`Wed Nov 28 1990 15:21`	10
	Dustie, How about the Captain's address given in the base note? No doubt the Sun newspaper is doing something along these lines also. Ok, Dave
133.4	A Best Kept Secret	USCTR1::RTRUEBLOOD	Rollyn Trueblood DTN 297-6553	`Wed Nov 28 1990 18:00`	37
	There is a best kept secret you should advise your friend to seek out. The US Army has a Recreation Services Support Center (USARSSC) located in Aschaffensburg (am Mainz), Germany. It is a supply depot which accepts funded requisitions (and for excess equipment - unfunded requisitions) for recreational equipment. It is a sub-component of First PERSCOM which is a subordinate headquarters of US Army Europe & 7th Army (USAREUR). This depot has all sorts of sporting goods within it and also has a library service. The library service provides book kits on a requisition basis which are designed for deployed soldiers. Their normal basis of issue is one kit per company per month. The books within the kit target the entire educational spectrum and they try to provide sufficient diversification to satisfy most audiences. This depot also provides the musical instruments and sound equipment for the USO tours and other traveling minstrels, has costumes for just about any play imaginable, and has all sorts of craft & hobby kits too. They can repair your pool table & even has the ability to install complete bowling lanes. Usually they have sufficient baseball equipment to outfit teams from three divisions, and the same for basketball, soccer, racketball, etc. They have their own ordering officers so requests for rarer sporting equipment eg. cricket bats can be fulfilled. Often times you can get excess equipment from them for the cost of transportation. To get them to service an organization a formal message needs to be sent to: CDR, USARSSC Aschaffensburg FRG //Accountable Officer// In the body of the message ask for information how to establish an account & provide the return message address. The depot has provided tri-service support in the past and knows how to process allied services' requisitions too.