The first box arrived in Bahgdad.  Here's the note we received confirming arrival; nice smiles, huh?
 

Joel,
Greetings to you and everyone else, hope all is well. Wanted to shoot you a quick update and some pics from the last couple weeks. Fishing seems to have picked up a bit, 4 of us went out last Sun and between Z-Lake and Victory palace lake caught over 20. They are still hitting well on little roadrunner spinner and jigs. A little bit of everything from Carp to Asp. We've also found our new club 'pro', Stetler, a great young kid from California who grew up tying and fly fishing and has already taught us 'newbies' many things and has been in the process of reorganizing our storage locker.

We also received donated fishing gear from two great groups of folks this week:

Kevin Smith from Project Healing Waters
And
Ron Russell from the Virginia Coastal Fly Anglers

Both sent great boxes with rods, reels, supplies, flies, vests, coffee, magazines, fly boxes, etc that really restocked our locker and gave us the ability to set up many new rigs to sign out to Service members over here. Please give them a huge shout out, the impact they have on the folks over here is just amazing.

Fish on!
Brian