Uncle Mike wants you to help Save a Soldier’s Life
				
				Uncle Mike from Carson City, NV is taking donations to purchase Vortex Flash 
				Eliminators at a discount from SEI and send them to our troops for FREE. 
				
				If you want to help out, he can be contacted by email at unclemikeccnv@sbcglobal.net, 
				or by phone at 775-884-4430. 
				
				To find out more about this effort, or to donate online with PayPal, visit his myspace page.
								
				Below is a photo from 3 April 2008, from troops who just received and installed
				their Vortexes. Following that is an email from in country.
				
				
				
				
				
				From: Mike McElfish
				Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 10:38 AM
				Subject: Fwd: Re: More Vortex coming...
				
				Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 05:54:40 -0700 (PDT)
				Subject: Re: More Vortex coming...
				To: Mike McElfish
				
				Uncle Mike,
				I have to say the care packages you sent to our company are by far one of the 
				greatest and most helpful items we ever received from anyone. We all greatly 
				appreciate you taking the time and sending these flash suppressors to us. I 
				have informed my platoon leader of your next shipment and he is very thankful. 
				Our Executive Officer CPT Bell had each platoon draw an M14 from the armsroom 
				and dedicated one soldier from each platoon to be their sniper. Of course each 
				M14 was equipped with your flash suppressors, they were tested out and they 
				are perfect for our daily missions. Again I greatly appreciate your support 
				and will be looking forward to equipping my weapon with one. We all are doing 
				great out here, and our overall mission on making Iraq a better place is 
				beginning to finally take place. We have driven 65% of all insurgents out of 
				our Battalion's battle space and 89% of them out of our Company battle space 
				alone. There is still a few bad guys running around but not much of a huge 
				threat. We deprived the insurgent of their resources by making over 80 villages 
				in our companies Area of Operation a better place for them. Then achieving respect 
				and honor from the local national's which resulted in capture of many High Value 
				Targets and pushing the small ones out.  I feel you should be aware of what 
				were doing out here considering your thoughts for us, I hope all is well with 
				you back at home and thanks again.
				 
				Sincerly,
				SGT Cabrera, Rafael (name altered for privacy)
				
				

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