NFL flags needed for troop morale

By 26 December 2009. Filed in Deployment.

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CAMP LIBERTY, Iraq – What started out as a simple idea from St. Louis, Mo. native, Capt. Greg Patton, the chaplain for the 620th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 96th Sustainment Brigade, 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), turned into a mission for his assistant.  Patton said that he wanted to decorate the local gym and dining facility, and since it was close to football season, NFL memorabilia sounded like a good theme.  After the Green Bay Packers sent a care package containing a team flag, Spc. Jared Sanscrainte, the chaplain’s assistant from Circleville, Ohio, expanded on his request from just teams of the Soldiers home states, to all the NFL teams.

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