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Cards, poker chips, and green felt!
If you donate a good set of poker chips and some green felt, I guarantee they will be used almost continuously, and by a large number of people. It is easy overseas to hire a local carpenter to make a poker table for you...provided you have felt and the chips to play with. Cards too, to a lesser degree. We had a regular circuit of games when I was deployed. And we went wherever the game was several times a week. It made for a great change of scenery and we got to make a lot of new friends that way.
DVD's are abundant on a deployment as Haji Copies are nearly free and many are very good quality. I would not recommend going out of your way to donate any DVD's for that reason. Though if you have extras, it won't hurt.
Current Game Systems are very popular, XBox360 seems to be at the top of the pile right now. Most units will already have a player, so you will get the most bang for your buck out of the games.
Board Games will also get a lot of mileage. Monopoly, Risk, Trivial Pursuit, Etc. Something that takes time to play.
Good books too! For whatever reason, most of the books we got were cheesy romance novels. Which some people really like, but not most soldiers. I think it is a product of wives and mothers sending the books they had on hand. Just about anything else will find an audience.
Magazines! Especially gun mags, motorcycle mags, and mens magazines (Maxim, Mens Journal, Etc).
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