Greetings,
My name is Elliott, but everyone calls me Red. I am 26 years old and a Sergeant (Staff Sergeant soon) 19D in the U.S. Army. Currently I am serving overseas on my 3rd tour, 1 Iraq, 1 Afghanistan, and 1 here. Used to be a big cigar guy but have recently picked up the pipe as of the end of March. Right now I am using a Savinelli Trevi straight billiard, some kind of Stanwell estate pipe I bought from a buddy because he never used it, Bulldog design, says "Danish" and "Brushed" on the bottom...no clue, cant find it anywhere online but I know it isn't a cheap'o piece and he only wanted $20 for it so I jumped. For my first smokes I picked up some Captain Black White, and some Drew Estate Central Park Stroll which were huge mistakes I think considering they are terrible. I have although smoked some of a buddy's Nightcap and Davidoff Scottish Mixture and seem to enjoy them both. Nothing is available over here tobacco wise so now it's a waiting game for me until my next order comes in which includes: 1x Dunhill EMP, 1x McClelland FMC, 1oz. Scotty's HPCS Trout Stream, and 1x MM Washington Straight cob for variety and resting purposes. Thank you guys for taking me into your vast community and providing a priceless service...KNOWLEDGE, from all you vets as well as noobs like me!
-Some of my hobbies include but are not limited to:
-Fishing
-Hiking/Backpacking
-Mountain Biking
-Snowboarding
-Spending time at home with the wife and my boy, when I can
-and now sitting down relaxing, and having a smoke
Just Curious if anyone on this site knows anything about organizations that may send pipes or pipe tobacco to troops overseas, I have some soldiers who really would like to get into it but are skeptical to order anything, and since nothing is available here it is near impossible to get others to enjoy what I have discovered as one of my newest favorite hobbies.