Agency provides troops holiday meals

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PHILADELPHIA (AFPN) --  American troops stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan will be receiving traditional holiday meals provided by officials at the defense supply center here, an inventory control point of the Defense Logistics Agency.

The meals will include the following items:

-- 161,126 pounds of boneless turkey.

-- 16,884 pounds of whole turkeys.

-- 104,016 pounds of shrimp.

-- 136,926 pounds of beef.

-- 131,110 pounds of ham.

-- 16,210 pounds of stuffing mix.

-- 7,374 cans of cranberry sauce.

-- 13,296 cans of mashed potatoes.

-- 13,296 cans of sweet potatoes.

-- 3,665 cases of corn on the cob.

-- 72,882 whole pies.

The total cost for the entire 2004 holiday meal for servicemembers in Iraq and Afghanistan is $5.6 million. The eleven items shown above cost $3.7 million. The remaining $1.9 million is for supplemental holiday food such as nuts, gravy, vegetables, fruits and candy, officials said.