As Peter pointed out, I may have broken my own rules in posting the Support Our Troops announcement, so in the interest of fairness, I have removed the announcement and the thread.

This should not be construed as any sort of discouragement of discussion about what equipment might be of use to or appreciated by those participating in current military operations, a perfectly non-political subject.

LATER: As George noted so well in the other thread, people check the forum to see what's new on ETS and I have reposted the note, less the potentially political statements, to point the way to the new information. This is in accordance with my usual SOP for new or updated pages on ETS.