作为美国精锐特种作战部队之一，海报突击队（Navy SEALs）以高超的战术能力和不屈不挠的韧性而闻名。这个群体一直是大片的主题，也是美军军事力量的典型代表。总部位于新罕不什尔州的联合雪茄公司（United Cigars）推出一个新的雪茄系列，纪念海豹突击队和他们的家庭。这个新系列计划在3月份的美国PCA贸易展露面。
这款名为“金星”（Gold Star）的雪茄是单一尺寸，54环径，6英寸，每盒20支装，计划只生产200盒，也就是4000支。其中有25盒附有现役、退役海豹突击队队员签名的雪茄将被拍卖，拍卖款将捐赠给海豹突击队博物馆，支持他们的三叉戟之家慈善项目，以及支持“与使命同行”筹款活动。
海豹突击队博物馆的董事会成员Jeff Hiatt表示，我们很荣幸参与金星雪茄品牌的创建，联合雪茄公司是一个具有爱国情怀的组织，他们在做一些实事。
金星雪茄的茄衣是哈瓦那2000烟叶，茄套是厄瓜多尔苏门答腊烟叶，茄芯是多米尼加烟叶和康涅狄格阔叶的混合成份。
这批雪茄是在多米尼加共和国的威廉·文图拉雪茄厂（Tabacalera William Ventura Cigar Factory）卷制的，这家雪茄厂还为考德威尔雪茄（Caldwell Cigars）、弗洛伊德雪茄（Freud Cigar Co.）从事委托加工业务。雪茄预计3月底发货给零售商。
The United States Navy SEALs have a well-earned reputation for supreme tactical prowess and relenting toughness as one of America’s elite special operations forces. This group has been the subject of blockbuster movies and serves as the poster child for America’s military might. So a cigar line honoring the SEALs and their families only seems fitting, and that’s what New Hampshire-based United Cigars has just created. The company announced the debut of the one-size, Gold Star Limited-Edition cigar in honor of the SEALs, set to release at the PCA trade show in Las Vegas next month.
The Gold Star is 6 inches long by 54 ring gauge, a toro packaged in 20-count boxes. Production is limited to just 4,000 cigars, or 200 boxes. Twenty-five of those boxes will display the signatures of active and retired Navy SEALs, and will be auctioned off to raise funds for the Navy SEAL Museum to support their Trident House Charities program and Swim With A Mission fundraising events.
“We are honored to be included in the launch of the Gold Star brand,” says Navy SEAL Museum board member Jeff Hiatt. “We have known that United Cigar is a patriotically minded organization, this really proves that they are putting their money where their mouth is.”
The cigars are made at Tabacalera William Ventura Cigar Factory in the Dominican Republic, known for producing brands for companies like Caldwell Cigars and Freud Cigar Co. The Gold Star features Dominican tobacco and Connecticut broadleaf filler, held together by Sumatra leaf from Ecuador and a Habano 2000 wrapper.
The cigars will have a suggested retail price of $400 a box, or $20 a stick. Gold Star is scheduled to ship to retailers at the end of March, following the PCA trade show.
