“It’s hard to describe just how much of a difference one box of video games can make,” he says. “It was essential.”
Former Army Capt. Stephen Machuga knows exactly what Gerwe is talking about.
Back in 2004, the airborne and Ranger-tabbed infantryman-turned-intelligence officer remembers getting an entirely different kind of care package when he was deployed to Iraq.
“It was more like a crate, really, full of third-hand romance novels from a library that was clearing shelves,” Machuga says.
He remembers thinking, “What in the hell are bunch of infantrymen going to do with these?”
Target practice, that’s what.
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