When you go in to hospital your Mum or your Missus (or Dad or Fella... or whatever), bring your clean undies, your favourite book, your iPod and your phone charger.
If your Snatch vehicle in Afghanistan get blown up, your Mum can't really jump on the Number 47 down to Camp Bastion to deliver the goods. Often on operations your personal equipment is damaged too, or the speed of evacuation makes it unlikely that your last remaining pair of clean kecks are going to catch up with you before you arrive at Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham.
Troop Aid was set up in 2006 to provide a small bag of the essentials that service men and women will require when they are admitted to hospital. The ability to put on a clean t-shirt, wash your teeth, stick on some clean shreddies. The basics that make the difference. Troop Aid bags are now available to every service man or woman hospitalised as a result of operations, be they in Iraq, Afghanistan or back in Birmingham.
Every Troop Aid Pack contains a letter from a British school child and a note from the sponsor of the pack (folded neatly next to the clean Grundy's)
£25 pays for a pack
The £5 down the back of the sofa will help towards paying for one
There have been more than 400 service personnel hospitalised in Afghanistan in 2009.
£25 pays for all this (including fresh Calvin's)
Yes, there are lots of words in the dpm thesaurus for "underpants"
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