The photo was taken last summer in Falluja, Iraq. Spepper and Danny Cash Hot Sauce each donated a case of product to the troops to season their meals. The person who took the photo you can refer to as Corporal “Jaddy”.
“Jaddy” is a 50 cal gunner and arms instructor for artillery and heavy fire. That particular 50 cal is mounted on top of an armored Humvee that was being used at that time for patrol. It’s also interesting to note that about 3 weeks after that photo “Jaddy” took an AK-47 round to the chest. He was protected by a teflon plate that his parents had paid for and sent to him. He has just been deployed again to serve another 8 months.
God speed Jaddy!
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The ammo for that gun looks about the same size as a hot sauce bottle!! To go where no sauce has gone before. lol
BAAAD TO THE BONE!!! Words can’t express how much I appreciate what these guys and gals are doing for us all!!
Hatsd off to the DC gang as well!
Tracy C on 3/19/2006 at 7:56 am said:
BAAAD TO THE BONE!!! Words can’t express how much I appreciate what these guys and gals are doing for us all!!
Hatsd off to the DC gang as well!
I 2nd that Tracy.
Way to go Danny Cash and as MattUK pointed out, the parents.
I hope Jaddy gets to see this post. If you do drop Nick your email. Jaddy, everyone here is 100% behind you brother! Kick some (you know what I mean )ass!
And of course, God Speed Jaddy!!
Great idea on sending that sauce over there. I bet it helps out quite a bit!
Their service is appreciated more than we let them know! Thanks guys!!
I just had a wicked idea for a hot sauce. Let’s make a hot sauce and bottle it in old 50 caliber bullet shells. Now … we need a clever name.
From an old Vietnam Veteran, I say to you young soldier…
Thank you for your service to our country! You are forever in our hearts.
May we at home too make you proud.
Semper Fi
MSK on 3/19/2006 at 10:31 am said:
From an old Vietnam Veteran, I say to you young soldier…
Thank you for your service to our country! You are forever in our hearts.
May we at home too make you proud.Semper Fi
AMEN to that.
OK … I just had an even more wicked idea. Instead of bullets, just load that thing up with some Blair’s death sauce. (they’re about the same size). Not only will the bullet wound your enemy, it will sting really really bad!
MSK on 3/19/2006 at 10:31 am said:
From an old Vietnam Veteran, I say to you young soldier…
Thank you for your service to our country! You are forever in our hearts.
May we at home too make you proud.Semper Fi
Well said MSK. My dad was in the Big Red One in Vietnam. God bless our troops!
Hi I’m probably going to sound daft here as I know very little about this stuff but isn’t it kevlar that stops bullets? How would teflon do the same job - i thought teflon was just on frying pans?
MattUK on 3/19/2006 at 1:11 pm said:
Hi I’m probably going to sound daft here as I know very little about this stuff but isn’t it kevlar that stops bullets? How would teflon do the same job - i thought teflon was just on frying pans?
Teflon comes in many forms thank goodness. Lightweight and tough is the key these days
Big bullets.
Sending hot sauce to these guys is the least we can do to help. We had another soldier email us about a month ago saying he had heard of us from other soldiers who recieved the hot sauce and spepper last year. We sent him 2 cases of our new DC mini’s and expect some good pics of them with the sauces which we’ll share with you guys. But we can only send so much. Maybe Nick would like to sponser a fundraiser to send a bunch of stuff over there…..Hot Sauce for Soldiers? We’ll donate sauce at our cost for that one.
Lee@DC on 3/19/2006 at 10:06 pm said:
Sending hot sauce to these guys is the least we can do to help. We had another soldier email us about a month ago saying he had heard of us from other soldiers who recieved the hot sauce and spepper last year. We sent him 2 cases of our new DC mini’s and expect some good pics of them with the sauces which we’ll share with you guys. But we can only send so much. Maybe Nick would like to sponser a fundraiser to send a bunch of stuff over there…..Hot Sauce for Soldiers? We’ll donate sauce at our cost for that one.
Dude I’m in for that one. How cool would that be? A little different than most ways to help and the food will be in a different league!!
Hot Sauce for Soldiers sounds good 
I think it’s important to realize Jaddy would be dead had he only been wearing what the government supplied him and there are a lot of parents who can’t afford the few hundred dollars that extra equipment cost. Whatever your politics are, the troops deserve our support in any way we can give it.
Sounds like a great idea!!
i’m in . How much….
I’ll talk to Nick about it tomorrow. Even if he’s swamped with other stuff I can throw up a web page with Paypal pretty fast.
Lee, count me in, we have been sending to a remotely deployed unit or two as well.
Great. definitely a good cause. All us chili heads need to get involved here….
huvason on 3/19/2006 at 10:41 pm said:
Great. definitely a good cause. All us chili heads need to get involved here….
sounds fine huvason
I don’t know how much is involved but could there be some labels made that just add a simple thanks for service or something along those lines? A small redesign so it doesnt take up a whole lot of your time.
Maybe that is too much trouble just thought I would throw that idea out.
Either way bring it on cause I am in!
How about you MSK? You can probably hook us up with the right people and avoid all the red tape. I know Jim C is in as well.
Cajohn, that’s awesome- we’ll get a co-op mission going then they’ll get some variety sent over!
CaJohn on 3/19/2006 at 10:44 pm said:
How about you MSK? You can probably hook us up with the right people and avoid all the red tape. I know Jim C is in as well.
All I know about the red tape is we ship to an APO address which is a port in the U.S. and it’s get overseas to wherever the soldier is- but maybe spouses of soldiers can send stuff for free? Then all the donated cash could go for the cost of the sauce and not shipping.
I don’t believe that they can ship for free- the spouses that is. I’ve been sending sauce (Semper Fry & General Hurtin’) to Afgan (the rock pile) and Iraq (the sand box) and a couple of undisclosed locations for three years now. A least a couple of my fellow firefighters from here were deployed, one just returning from a year in the rock pile. *ANY* request from a spouse, family member, or relative of a soldier will result in me sending sauce and shipping for free.
I’M DEFINITELY IN!!!!!!!!
Let me say this…
Back in my day and as a direct result of the anti-war movement, the fear of individual reprisal was so great at home, we were told not to travel in military clothing upon our return. Feelings of isolation and shame can have a horrendous effect on a soldiers life. Don’t let our young soldiers experience this ever again!
Walk up to them, look them in the eye while you take their hand and simply, but boldly say…..
Welcome Home! Thank you for you service to our country!
Jim & Cajohn, I will contact you guys and Nick tomorrow regarding this. Everyone else stand by for more info. Thanks-
Lee@DC on 3/19/2006 at 11:09 pm said:
Jim & Cajohn, I will contact you guys and Nick tomorrow regarding this. Everyone else stand by for more info. Thanks-
You know where you can find us Can’t wait to see what you guys cook up. Should be a good deal for all
I’m in only under the following conditions: 1) There is not one penny made on the venture. 2) Not only that, but it *costs* us money- it ain’t charity if it doesn’t cost you anything. 3) This is done without fanfare or expectations of recognition. No press releases, no ‘hey look at what I’m doing’, etc. Thanks.
I agree Jim. Thats not right to ask for recognition. Sure we put up the pics of the sauce on the Humvee, but we’re definatly not asking for cash or publicity. We’re all in this to say thanks to the guys who are there in our place.
* No press releases, no ‘hey look at what I’m doing’, etc.
* We’re all in this to say thanks to the guys who are there in our place.
Excellent views gentlemen! Thank you!
They sound like good ideas so far. I don’t care for any recognition. Just want to help out and say thanks like others have said
Yeah- sorry that came off a bit more harsh than I’d intended. It certainly wasn’t accusatory, just pre-emptive if anything. There’s a fine line to be walked between getting notice for your cause in order to do more good and seeing every mention start off with “Noted philanthropist JPBighead, maker of the award winning ‘I’m Better than you Sauce’, anounces…”. I’ve seen some folks, with great fanfare, announce the support of some worthy cause and receive a ton of press (much to their benefit) only to find out that they’re *making* money on the deal or at best donating a pittance. Or, worse still, simply playing off events with some ‘cutesy’ name just to make money.
As usual, Blair has set a pretty good example for us with his American Hot sauce. It told you right there on the label how much (and it was substantial) went to 9-11 support. He didn’t even get the cost of the sauce covered I bet. He got little, if any press, and da…d little thanks. Karma though
Certainly I don’t want to- again- be accused of “cashing in on the post 9-11 sympathy for firefighters”, right John?
Just tossing ideas here. Lee, MSK, John, Danny, & other corporate types: How about a common ‘yellow ribbon’ icon or similar on our sites for ’support a soldier’. Clicking on a link then takes you to Nick (whom we’ll have sent sauces to) who’ll ship to the APO’s of active duty personnel deployed overseas. A link on his site will allow folks to make a donation to support the shipping. If he runs in the red, we kick in to cover it. All within reasonable limits. I mean if 2,000 people hit up for sauce, I’m out of business no matter how generous I might be. Might be able to extend the program to other sauce makers as well.
Just random thoughts.
Operation Fire Power?
jim campbell- Mild to Wild(R) on 3/20/2006 at 6:24 am said:
Just tossing ideas here. Lee, MSK, John, Danny, & other corporate types: How about a common ‘yellow ribbon’ icon or similar on our sites for ’support a soldier’. Clicking on a link then takes you to Nick (whom we’ll have sent sauces to) who’ll ship to the APO’s of active duty personnel deployed overseas. A link on his site will allow folks to make a donation to support the shipping. If he runs in the red, we kick in to cover it. All within reasonable limits. I mean if 2,000 people hit up for sauce, I’m out of business no matter how generous I might be. Might be able to extend the program to other sauce makers as well.
Just random thoughts.
Hi Jim, just catching up on all the “late-night” posts. (for us on the east coast)
Sounds like a good idea.
Whatever you guys decide, just let us know. Im sure you will find alot of support from all the great people that comment here on HSB.
All sounds good to us. Jim the yellow ribbon is a great idea.
That is not a 50 it is The MK19 40mm machine gun go here to read up on this bad baby. Link.
Man it just makes me nervous looking at those links LOL I left as soon as i saw that it was info about killing machines. I can see your name being a permanent part of a database as soon as you click on a link there. Call me paranoid, but …OK I am paranoid
Heheh. Alls i know is, its a BFG. Thats good enough for me.
jim campbell- Mild to Wild(R) on 3/20/2006 at 6:24 am said:
Just tossing ideas here. Lee, MSK, John, Danny, & other corporate types: How about a common ‘yellow ribbon’ icon or similar on our sites for ’support a soldier’. Clicking on a link then takes you to Nick (whom we’ll have sent sauces to) who’ll ship to the APO’s of active duty personnel deployed overseas. A link on his site will allow folks to make a donation to support the shipping. If he runs in the red, we kick in to cover it. All within reasonable limits. I mean if 2,000 people hit up for sauce, I’m out of business no matter how generous I might be. Might be able to extend the program to other sauce makers as well.
Just random thoughts.
I like that idea, Jim. I was trying to figure out how we could do it last night and was having a hard time. Since the APO ports for the Middle East are on the East Coast it would probably cost less for Nick to ship to them and we could all send stuff over there. Now, how do we decide who gets sauce shipped to them? Are there any deployed soldiers reading this thread?
BTW- Jim, I resent being referred to as a ‘corporate type’. lol
Corporate type?
Holy cow! Just when I get used to being retired my name gets linked with a term known for being associated with work!!! Got to hurry and drive crosses in the front yard and hang a string of garlic on the door.
Lee, you lost the blue hair for some reason. I guess it’s because you went “Corporate”, you evil dude…
Muhahahaha! Profits! Warmongering! Corrupt government officials! Those are my friends now! D@mn, that just slipped out…
CaJohn would you mind calling me. I just finnished with Steve
I would like to pick your brain for a minute. Steve should have my number if not I will call him and give it to him if you are not at the shop.
There are many informative websites who give you all the info about shipping out stuff to the military. Alot of these organizations are run by the parents, let me see what I can come up with Lee
popeyemoon on 3/20/2006 at 9:09 am said:
That is not a 50 it is The MK19 40mm machine gun go here to read up on this bad baby. Link.
A 40MM is a grenade launcher. each shell being about 1 5/8 dia and
4 inch lg. You need to more research for one who has operated one
of these
Mind you, this random thinking has all been done without seeing if Nick is up for it or not 
Visions:
A page on Nick’s site where a soldiers’ family could place an ‘order’, picking 2 or 3 sauces from the list of those supplied to him by us evil corporate types. He has a separate account where the general public deposits money to cover those shipping costs. Ought to be a way to make that account transparent to a few folks as an oversight if it is felt necessary. As he runs low on sauces, he lets us know to ship more (same if he needs funds for shipping). We all know folks who are serving, word of mouth would be the best way to start this off anyway as we work the bugs out & see the response.
Jim, I think the overhead on that may be too much. It has to ship twice and Nick has to inventory and wharehouse the stuff, and he lives in Manhattan where rent ain’t cheap. Dan and I have been talking about a page on our website and direct shipments once a month or so. I don’t want to kill the group effort here, but I also want to keep it relatively simple.
Smokey Mountain Knifeworks in Gatlingburg has a program going called “A Knife for a Soldier” that is probably a good model to go by. They have links on their webpage and a separate site for the program.
Well…. If the request goes out to all participating, the funds will be depleted faster serving less people if all of us repsond to the same one. How about a rotating send out? Lee first, John second, and so on. The greatest good for the greatest number.
And then what? We submit bills for the shipping to you? I expect that we’ll cover our own costs on the sauces. See previous post #33, point 2
I’m all in favor of simple as well! Pretty simple for me to send sauce to Nick & let him worry about it 
We weren’t discussing fair or practicle yet
Yet another random thought…. As Lee suggests, we could still all do this individually but maybe each have a ’standardized’ button on our sites for a ’soldier support’ section. Each person then handles it however they want. Nick can keep a list of the participating manufacturers and be the ‘distribution point’ for that list; ‘go here for a list of folks supporting the troops’, ex.
Not fair! You get to post replies to stuff I haven’t had a chance to see yet!
That idea works.
That might be the easiest way Lee. What if we did something like the Ring of Fire or Smoke Ring that connects us in a different way? We could either put up a $1 donation button to send sauce to a troop, or throw a link on there to Nick and he can let us know once a month to ship a case at a time.
I’ve already sent a few cases over and expect some pictures soon (I hope)! At any rate, count me in. I’m more than happy to kick in some more cases for our soldiers. They DO deserve every bit of support we can muster. Great idea guys!
Perhaps a central account that all donations go into period. and the dealers that participate use a specific UPS account number that must have a destination address in the middle east or it is declined (if that is possible) all reciepts get shipped for tracking to the person in charge of the account for reconciling. Probably would not be that much involved as I don’t imagine hundreds of orders a month.
As Jim stated, just random thoughts. Someone might like one thought from one guy and another from someone else to help build a good system. Or I may just have given a suggestion that was made hours/days ago because this was sitting here for a while as I just received 3 boxes in the mail of Hot Sauce orders I have been waiting for
Okay, how about this: We go with Nick’s idea and he creates the website listing participants and info, accepting donations, and accepting requests from the general public. People can just donate, just request sauce sent to a relative or friend, or both. Nick maintains all donations, then, when a request comes in, he creates a USPS shipping label from an online account and emails it to one of us (or snailmail if email won’t work). We rotate like Jim said in comment #57. You must use USPS to ship to an APO address. Then we agree on a number of bottles like 5 or 6 for each request. The requestors don’t get to determine how many bottles or what sauce goes. We standardize the number for simplicity and leave the sauce up to the manufacturer. This way Nick knows the ‘From’ address, ‘To’ address, and weight of the package. All we do is print the label, slap it on the box and drop it off at the post office. I think 6 bottles is a good number because it’s not cost effective to ship just 1 or 2 compared to 6 or 12 and you know these guys are going to share with their buddies. What do you guys think?
Lee thats a good idea, seems the least complicated. Just clarify what the 6 bottles are about… thanks
whatever you guys decide, please let me know somehow so I can donate some cash towards this awesome cause.
Lisa on 3/20/2006 at 4:59 pm said:
Lee thats a good idea, seems the least complicated. Just clarify what the 6 bottles are about… thanks
For each request- we send 6 bottles of sauce to that soldier. It’s a way to share it with the soldiers’ whose family requested and the soldiers around him/her. Sending 1 or 2 bottles just seems a waste of shipping to me.
Nick, the only request I’d like to make of the family members sending sauce to soldiers is IF POSSIBLE the soldiers send a pic back of them with or without the sauces. It would be awesome to have a gallery on the site of soldiers helped by the cause. That and maybe we’d have to require the sauce gets sent to an APO address as verification that the sauces are going overseas. Just some thoughts.
P.S. Cajohn, sending unsuspecting troops Black Mamba could be considered an act of treason. How about some nice Hot Spots, eh?
HOw much is shipping of 6 bottles overseas? Does anyone have a rough number?
I am not sure. The stuff I have sent overseas was always sent to a military outfit which then takes it overseas. So the shipping was only to the military base to ship from
It will go to an APO in Miami or Atlanta parcel post and weigh about 5 lbs. USPS.com quote is just under $10.
Oh yeah, that quote’s from Denver. I think we’re the farthest west involved in this, right?
huvason on 3/20/2006 at 5:22 pm said:
HOw much is shipping of 6 bottles overseas? Does anyone have a rough number?
A USPS flat rate box would be perfect. 6-7 five oz bottles can be safely shipped to any APO addy for $8.10.
Nick, Lee, Jim and everyone else that is involved with this great project,
Please let us know if there is anything we can do in terms of label printing. We would be willing to donate a private label or some special label that would go on the sauce or even in the box. Maybe a promo or bumper sticker of some sort…. Toss it around and let me know if you guys have any ideas.
I do business with and have contact with officials in the Military & Veteran Affairs here PA. I can pose questions to them if that need arise.
Dan@ BLP Labels on 3/20/2006 at 5:30 pm said:
Nick, Lee, Jim and everyone else that is involved with this great project,
Please let us know if there is anything we can do in terms of label printing. We would be willing to donate a private label or some special label that would go on the sauce or even in the box. Maybe a promo or bumper sticker of some sort…. Toss it around and let me know if you guys have any ideas.
Now we’re talking! BLP prints off “thanks to the troops” or something hot sauce labels and sends them to the manufacturers to put on their sauces. Then we also have Nick sell them on sweatnspice with all proceeds going directly into the shipping fund! Dang…
and, I think sending to soldiers already damaged and in US Military hospitals recovering should be a priority.
Tracy C on 3/20/2006 at 5:29 pm said:
A USPS flat rate box would be perfect. 6-7 five oz bottles can be safely shipped to any APO addy for $8.10.
Not bad at all. Just wondering in terms on how much someone would need to donate to help out. For $8-10 - that woudl send a complete package to the troops - not bad at all.
thakswet on 3/20/2006 at 5:38 pm said:
and, I think sending to soldiers already damaged and in US Military hospitals recovering should be a priority.
Agreed
This whole support the troops thing is a Great idea!
We are justing waiting for you guys to hash out all the details.
Let us know what we need to do. You have my support.
chris k on 3/20/2006 at 5:45 pm said:
This whole support the troops thing is a Great idea!
We are justing waiting for you guys to hash out all the details.
Let us know what we need to do. You have my support.
Cool. I’ve also already got other people who read this blog but don’t comment asking me to email them the site when it’s up so they can donate cash. Good thing we already have several companies to donate product!
As a veteren myself, not only is support, like we’re talking about here, warmly embraced by the troops, but anything to make those crappy MRE’S taste better is greatly appreciated. I have shipped more jerky from families to their loved ones overseas from my restaurant, than I can remember with the one underlying fact being that anything from home is good!!!! I think this thread deserves a salute!!!!!
let me know if I can do anything for you.
how about a small label to go over the neckband at the base?
that is where we put our scovie stickers and they looked great, layed nice and flat on the bottle right at the neck
I agree Lisa, I think that is a great place for label! Plus KUDOS to all who are involved in this project. My BIL is in Iraq, and I think they can use as much of the US there as possible. It will make all of thier days!
Lee@DC on 3/19/2006 at 10:48 pm said:
All I know about the red tape is we ship to an APO address which is a port in the U.S. and it’s get overseas to wherever the soldier is- but maybe spouses of soldiers can send stuff for free? Then all the donated cash could go for the cost of the sauce and not shipping.
No DC,my sisiter still had to pay to send stuff to her hubby in Iraq.
Danny Cash on 3/20/2006 at 1:26 am said:
I agree Jim. Thats not right to ask for recognition. Sure we put up the pics of the sauce on the Humvee, but we’re definatly not asking for cash or publicity. We’re all in this to say thanks to the guys who are there in our place.
I agree. This is all from the heart. We know we made thier days a little bettter, not to mention thier food, and that is all the regonation anyone should need.
Lee@DC on 3/20/2006 at 9:27 am said:
I like that idea, Jim. I was trying to figure out how we could do it last night and was having a hard time. Since the APO ports for the Middle East are on the East Coast it would probably cost less for Nick to ship to them and we could all send stuff over there. Now, how do we decide who gets sauce shipped to them? Are there any deployed soldiers reading this thread?
I am sure I can still get some addresses to ship out to. Just let me know.
Jodie on 3/20/2006 at 6:42 pm said:
No DC,my sisiter still had to pay to send stuff to her hubby in Iraq.
Man, missing armor, no free shipping, and Tabasco in your MRE? Rough place. Kidding about the Tabasco-it’s definitely better than nothing.
Why did my last comment go on twice?
Lisa on 3/20/2006 at 7:20 am said:
All sounds good to us. Jim the yellow ribbon is a great idea.
I love the yellow ribbon idea!
Jodie on 3/20/2006 at 6:53 pm said:
Why did my last comment go on twice?
Operator malfunction most likely lol I thought you just wanted to pad your comment counter
Nick Lindauer on 3/20/2006 at 1:08 pm said:
Here’s my $0.02 -
I own the domain SpiceForSoldiers.com - I can set up a portal there with information for both Soldiers and Manufacturers that want to help out.A donation page/account can be set up just for that site, so there’s no mixing of funds. Donations will go towards covering the shipping and the manufacturers cost.
Manufacturers will be listed as participants in the program (sponsors etc…) and soldiers (or families of soldiers) will be able to contact us through the site.
Then, when a request comes in - it can be sent out to all those participating and whoever chooses to respond to the request will ship out the goods from their location (less handling of items this way). Once the items have shipped, the shipping cost will be covered from the SpiceforSoldiers.com account.
Make sense?
This sounds good too. Good thinking Nick.
Nick Lindauer on 3/20/2006 at 6:23 pm said:
Dan - Is it possible for you to create a band type sticker/label to go wrap around the bottle (over the manufacturers label) so the original label is there, but the bottle is marked as a donation from SpiceforSoldiers? - I’m think a small .5inch wide label that the manufacturers could put on their bottles before sending out. Something to identify them as a dona
Thank god for parents!!