THANKS FOR THE TREES

Here's some people who aren't blowing their horns.

"One thousand Christmas trees arrived in Bahrain December 12 to be delivered to forward-deployed service members in the Middle East.

This is the second year in a row that New York businesses and veterans have coordinated with DHL, a worldwide shipping service, to fly Christmas trees to military members in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait and Bahrain.

New York businessman Jim Adelis approached DHL in 2004 with the idea that would later be coined “DHL Christmas Trees for Troops.”

Five hundred Christmas trees were flown to bases in Iraq, 300 were delivered to Afghanistan and 150 went to Kuwait. The rest were distributed to commands at Naval Support Activity (NSA) Bahrain, including Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command and tenant commands at the Aviation Unit. The shipment also included 4,000 boxes of lights and ornaments, and thousands of Christmas cards and letters."

(Courtesy of the Navy Newsstand: Journalist 2nd Class Cassandra Thompson, 5th Fleet Public Affairs)