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Operation Thin Mints
What's More American Than Girl Scout Cookies!

May 2002

600 pounds of cookies!

925 boxes of mostly-chocolate Thin Mints donated through the Girl Scout Council of the Apalachee Bend by residents of the Big Bend region of North Florida are bound for US military troops who serve in the US Joint Task Force guarding Al-Queda and Taliban detainees.

The cookie shipment was coordinated by the Capital Area and Central Panhandle Chapters of the American Red Cross, who according to Department of Defense request, oversee and safeguard donated shipments bound for our troops. US Army Reservists of the 160th MP BN, Headquartered in Tallahassee Fl, on Active Duty bound for Guantanamo Bay, Cuba packaged the pallet and provided transportation.

Operation Thin Mints Left to right: Sgt John Holtz, PFC Tiffany Hickman, Armed Forces Emergency Services Coordinator for the Capital Area Chapter Jann Cox, PFC Roosevelt Glevis and Sgt Ronnie Thompson.
Operation Thin Mints The pallet of Girl Scout cookies just fits in the cargo bay of the Hum-Vee.

Featured: Sgt John Holtz, 160th MP BN USAR Active Duty

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