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SPC Jesse P. Wachtel
- U. S. Army -
Iraq
SPC Jesse P. Wachtel
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(This address has been requested 0 times.) (NOTE **)
APO/FPO: APO AE (Note 1*)
Added here: 19 May 2004
End date: 30 Jan 2005 (Note 3*)
Contact for approx number of Males: 75, Females: 40 (Note 5*)
Unit is from: (Note 6*)

Note: SPC Jesse P. Wachtel was dropped from this list on 17 Dec 2004 due to 60 days of no contact.

18 Oct 2004:
(From his Mom)
My son, Spc. Jesse Wachtel, is a deployed soldier with 215 FSB 1st Cavalry in Baghdad. He has been an AnySoldier point of contact for his unit since May. This evening, I just happened to go to the site to see what new information has been posted. While there, I went to my son's listing, which I hadn't done in awhile. I saw that you have a warning that he's about to be dropped from the list. PLEASE DO NOT DROP HIM.

He is still there. He is still active. He is currently working in an area where he does not have access to email, so he cannot post an update to his listing, and he couldn't respond to your warning. He cannot even get in touch with his momma (me) and his 8-months' pregnant wife right now, BUT HE CAN STILL RECEIVE PACKAGES AND CORRESPONDENCE FOR HIS UNIT. Please remove the warning from his listing so that people will continue to contact his unit. He has expressed to me on many occasions how much this site and the contacts his unit has received because of it has meant to all of them. They live for this. He should be able to call me by the end of the month (I'm hoping) and I will ask him to actually post an update as soon as he is able.

If necessary, I will provide to you any information necessary to prove that I am really Jesse's mom and that I know what I'm talking about. I really don't want him to get cut off, and right now he really has no way to contact you himself.

I also want to let you know that I have been helping to promote the AnySoldier site throughout the nation. I publish a local family resource guide in Central Virginia called Kids' Directory. I created a "filler" ad to use in our directory. This is a licensed publication that exists around the country. And the company that licenses Kids' Directory also licenses several other publications. I have shared the "filler" I created with the other publishers, and many have been including this in their guides each month to help publicize the site. We hope that this has meant more and more letters and packages reaching all of the service members in the field. If you want to see what the "filler" looks like, you can go to my own website -- www.vakidsdirectory.com. It's on page 14 this month.

Thanks in advance for changing Jesse's listing to keep him as an active contact.

26 Aug 2004
It has been about a month and a half since my last update and a lot has happened since then. The international zone where I am got heavily attacked daily because of the convention the Iraqi government was holding to pick delegates. Since the convention ended, it became supprisingly quiet. We still get our normal mortar and rocket attacks, but nothing as bad as it was last month.

To everybody at home, thank you for all you support. All your letters and boxes have helped make this deployment easier. As time has been going by, the days feel as if they are getting longer. It almost seems like March 05 will never get here, but when I go get my mail and see numerous boxes and letters on a daily basis, it helps us get all the bad stuff off our mind and go to bed happy.

On a personal note, my wife has less then three months to go! For anyone who doesn't know, we are having a little girl in late November. I didn't think it was possable to be nervous, scared and happy all at the same time. Also, I am getting pinned Specialest/E-4 on September 1. That puts me one step closer to my goal of coming to Iraq as an E-2 and leaving as an E-5.

SPC Jesse Wachtel

19 Jul 2004
I'm sorry it has been such a long time since the last time I contacted you. I have been really busy going on at least five refuel missions from the international zone to BIAP. Recently, I suffered from a heat stroke. Because of this I am on indoor duty for at least 30 days. That is how I got you e-mail today.

Everything that has been sent to my unit has helped us out by filling our bellies to giving us cool things to play with to letters showing the support we need to be able to keep going. It may just be a five minute letter to them, but to us it is motivation only second to our families. Knowing that there are so many people at home supporting us makes me want to try even harder to do my best to give the Iraqi people freedom and a life that is not dictated by a murderer. I have able to talk to a few locals in the four+ months I have been out here. They are no different than you and me. All they want is to earn a living to support their families and be free while doing it. Isn't that the "American Dream"? The mission out here has changed, it went from saving the world from terror to giving these good people a life. I don't know if that is how it looks over there, but that is the only way you can look at it here. These people need help and have needed help for a long time now and i know it wasn't the main reason when we first declared war, but now that we are here and have done we we did, they don't want us to leave like we left last time. They want us to help them get their country on the right track. It will get there, it will only take time. That is one reason I support Bush. I know for a fact he will leave troops in Iraq until the job is done. As a soldier in the Army, I am willing to come out here as many times as it takes. I just want to one day be able to see these people lead free and happy lives!

PFC Jesse Wachtel

19 May 2004
We can find a way to use anything you send us. We do live in a building and have 220 electricity. We don't have it as bad as many soldiers deployed but we are still deployed. Anything you want to sent to cheer up up would be a great help.

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(NOTE *): Effective 1 May 2006 this web site added a major layer of security to our contacts' information. This change is necessary to protect our troops and ensure that Any Soldier will continue to operate.
The ONLY changes are that the addresses of our contacts are now hidden and the number of addresses you can get are limited. You may obtain addresses simply by clicking on the link provided and correctly filling out the form, the address will then be emailed to you immediately.

(NOTE **): The number shown is how many times a form was submitted requesting this address. This does NOT necessarily mean that this contact will be helped by that many folks. Rule of thumb is that anything 5 requests or less may in fact be no support at all. No way to tell exactly unless the contact lets you know in his/her update how much support they are getting.

(Note 1.): Note that postage to APO AE and FPO AE (E = Europe) is only to NY where the connection to the APO/FPO (APO = Army Post Office)(FPO = Fleet Post Office) is, or to San Francisco for APO AP and FPO AP (P = Pacific), so you don't pay postage all the way to Iraq/Afghanistan. You might consider picking contacts closer to your mailing area to help cut the cost of mailing. If you live on the East Coast, pick "AE", West Coast, pick "AP", Midwest, well...uh, Thank You for your Support! ;)

New with us (December 2005) you might notice "APO AA" and "FPO AA". This is for units in the Caribbean/South America. Normally. However, due to the nature of some units they may be in Iraq but have an address showing "FPO AA". Mail addresses to "AA" goes out of Miami, Florida.

(Note 2.): Why are military addresses weird? There isn't a street address or city. What gives? Correct, just about everything about the military is weird to civilians. Military units are very mobile, they move around a lot, often they even become part of another unit. The APO (Army Post Office) and FPO (Fleet Post Office) assign APO and FPO numbers as needed, they are NOT static. An APO/FPO number may be for a large unit, or a location. An APO/FPO number for Baghdad today may be for Frankfurt tomorrow.

(Note 3.): The "Expect to not mail past" date is only an approximate and is one of the least reliable things on this web site. It is because of this that you must check often before you send anything to this unit. There are a few reasons this date is not reliable, to include: it IS the Military, we ARE dealing with the APO/FPO/DPO. The only thing that does not change in the military is that things will change. PLEASE NOTE that a Contact is dropped off our active list 30 days PRIOR to their date leaving to help avoid mail bouncing.

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(Note 5.): The lines, "Contact with approx number of Soldiers:" and "Approx how may Female Soldiers:" have NOTHING to do with unit strength. They are approximately how many other Troops the Contacts believe they can get packages to. This helps you understand that you should not send 100 packages to someone who only deals with 10 Troops.
Don't forget that if your package is for a female Soldier, be sure to change "ATTN: Any Soldier®" to "ATTN: Any Female Soldier".

( Note 6.): This is simply where the unit this contact is from. This is NOT a true picture of the folks in the unit as most all units are made up of folks from all over the United States.) A "Composite Unit" is one made up of other units and is usually temporary for a particular mission.

( Note 7.): Updated APO/FPO/DPO mailing restrictions> courtesy of Oconus.com (gone now) (Note: About Restriction "U2": "U2 - Limited to First Class Letters", Box "R" is for retired personnel that live overseas and are still authorized an APO/FPO box. Their address will be something like Box 3345R. Doubt you will see anything like that in Afghanistan or Iraq or ...)(Please Note: Sometime in August 2013, Oconus.com changed the code on their page and our form doesn't work with them anymore, so a link to their page is the best we can do, sorry.)

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