From: Lance Corporal Mills Bigham
Date: December 3, 2005
Re: Mills!!!

daddio!
hows things? i forgot to wish you happy birthday! I also forgot to ask you what it is like to be sixty? i must be great! i can't even imagine! just kidding dad, congratulations. I got promoted today to Lance Corporal Of Marines lol we are tax free, and thats an extra 300 dollars a month, sweet. i hope your car is doing well, and you are having a good time at work, but i gotta run love you mills

From: Lance Corporal Mills Bigham
Date: December 5, 2005
Re: I have it now!!!

today we didn't do much, we just packed, and worked out a little bit. i'm still getting stronger, and still going crazy lol. we had chicken for dinner, but it is just mushed up meat that could be anything. Some days they call it veal, beef, or chicken, it just depends on what day it is. when you guys send me stuff, don't put alot of candy in it because we get so much we don't know what to do with it!
nature valley granola bars
copenhagen long cut
socks (every now and then)
black ballpoint pens
double a batteries 2-4 of them
a nice cigar once in a while
magazines about cars, MAXIM magazine, Mens Health, Time, Newsweek
The stat newspaper
electrical tape

I gotta go
love you mom! Mills

From: Lance Corporal Mills Bigham
Date: December 6, 2005
Re: Still the 6th

hey momma!
we are still on ship, but have begun off loading all the trucks. I wish i could tell you more about where we are going and things of that nature, but i can't. Not only do we not have a reliable schedule, it involves opsec. Operational Security

I need/want a pair of aviator sunglasses. They should be around 12 dollars at Hippwahzee. Gold rims, medium tinted lens, please.

I got letter one and two from you guys, but no package yet. I had two bowls of cereal for breakfast, and a hamburger and fries for lunch. In the mornings they have people who cook eggs for you on the spot. I usually get two over easy, waffles, and bread.
love you
mills