Troops send their thanks for a much-needed cup of Joe
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Courtesy photo/Tim Grever
Troops stationed in Afghanistan on wilderness deployment show off bags of coffee they received thanks for the efforts of PJ DeGross of Carson City and local Starbucks customers. Starbucks district manager Tim Grever said the wilderness deployment units are so far from major military stations that their supplies have to be dropped to them via parachutes or delivered by helicopter.
PJ DeGross of Carson City set up a program called WebOfSupport.com through which people could adopt soldiers stationed overseas. Tim Grever, district manager for Starbucks in northern Nevada, helped the program by organizaing a drive to send coffee to five units.
This week, Grever received this letter from a member of one of the units.
“Just wanted to drop a line and say thank you. My team has been on missions all over the country for the last month and we just got back yesterday. I walked in and found lots of packages for us. It was very nice to come back to that. Two of us had been at a combat outpost (COP) on the Pakistan border for 21 days. It was a lot of work but a good time. Ironically one of the hardest things for us to get up there was coffee, and when I walked back into our building and found 50 pounds of Starbucks and a coffee grinder I almost cried!!! LOL ...”
Scott P. Baker
SGM, USA
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