Captain Holcomb visited Stafford Motor Speedway on August 29th, and he is interviewed here by SMS Broadcaster Tony Sutton. Welcome Home Scott!

M. Scott Holcomb
Captain
U.S. Army J.A.G. Corps
Serving in Kuwait for 2 consecutive years
Captain Holcomb is the cousin of Late Model driver Dave Wray, who drives the #42.

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Dante Freeman
U.S. Marine Corps

Dante has been serving in Iraq for over a year.

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SPC Chelsea Barrett
171 ASG / 439th QM CO
Camp Tallil
AP0-AE 09331

Chelsea is an employee of American Sleeve Bearing,
located a stone's throw away from Stafford Motor Speedway.

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Pfc. Brianna S. Tucker
GREEZGIRL@hotmail.com
Serving as a mechanic in Kirkuk, Iraq

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Kent Roeser SPC 6788
143rd Military Police Co. (OPS)
APO-AE 09302-1337

Kent's name was sent into Stafford Speedway by the #19 Kenny Horton Late Model team. Kent was an electrician at Pasquariello Electric Corp. Kent currently serves as a seargent with the 143rd M.P. Company - Connecticut National Guard based out of Brainard Field in Hartford. Kent has since returned home home with the rest
of the Connecticut National Guard's 143rd Military Police Company Unit.

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PV2. Derrick Pierce
3d Infantry
4th Brigade
64th Armored Regiment
dmart215@juno.com

Currently serving in Iraq somewhere west of Baghdad. It's been 5 weeks since the last time we heard from him. He celebrated his 19th birthday on June 19th of this year. He completed his "OSUT" (One Station Unit Training) as a tank crew member at Fort Knox, Ky. on December 19th of 2002. He reported to his duty station at Fort Stewart, Georgia on January 14th of this year and left for Iraq on January 21st. He's currently serving as part of the forces that are trying to maintain some type of order within Iraq. We hope to have him back home sometime in August. His email address is dmart215@juno.com for anyone who would like to send him a message. We'll make sure it gets forwarded to him.

Rich Pierce
OSC Competitor Parts
860-286-6315 (Direct)
860-769-1934 (Fax)
860-998-3738 (E-Fax)

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SPC Meriha DeCarli
Daughter of Stafford Late Model driver Roy Houle
Meriha served in Iraq providing security. She has since returned
home with the rest of the Connecticut National Guard's 143rd Military Police Company Unit.

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SGT Mark McAuliffe
Fan of the #78 SK Modified® and #56 Busch North cars
mkappim@aol.com

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Staff Sergeant Steve Gardner
325th Trans. Co
Camp Arifjan
APO / AE 09366

A photo of SSG Steve Gardner taken at Baghdad Airport.

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Members of the 1109th AVCRAD Serving in Kuwait
SSG Donald Boisvert
SFC Gary Hopkins
SFC Rick Fargo
MSG Bob Slater
SSG Sean Weed
SSG Bob Shackelford

Stafford Speedway received the following e-mail and photo from SSG Sean Weed on Wednesday, July 2:

Hello Stafford speedway, We just wanted to send you a picture of us with our t-shirts and flat stanley standing next to a black hawk helicopter. We are working with flat stanley giving him some adventures. MSG Robert Slater is missing he had to work this day. Thanks again for everything.



To send a letter of support to any of the six members of the 1109th AVCRAD, send to:

Name
1109th AFCRAD (ADMRU)
Componenets
APO AR 09366

Standing (L to R):
SSG Donald Boisvert, SFC Gary Hopkins, SFC Rick Fargo, & MSG Bob Slater
Kneeling (L to R): SSG Sean Weed & SSG Bob Shackelford

SSG Sean Weed E-Mailed to Stafford Speedway:

Hi, I am writing this email from Camp Arifjan, Kuwait to say hi to all the Stafford Speedway staff, competitors and fans. I would like to thank everyone for supporting the troops. We are all in the 1109th AVCRAD, which is an Army National Guard Aviation Unit based out of Groton, CT. We visit the Stafford Speedway web site as often as we can to keep up with the new news. We also plan on trying to listen to the Friday night shows on yahoo broadcast.com. Again, thank you for the support, we are hoping to be home in time to enjoy some of the 2003 season.

Thank you,
Sean, Bob, Donald, Gary and Rick

Richard L. Fargo
Sergeant 1st Class
Army National Guard
Serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom in the Aircraft Maintenance Division.
Sgt. Fargo is from Connecticut, and is a season ticket holder at SMS.


Sergeant Fargo with his Grandchildren Olivia and Austin,
taken Feb. 9, 2002, the day he deployed.

Sean Sullivan-Armed Forces

Ron Ryzik-Armed Forces

Jim Marsh
Master Sergeant
U.S. Air Force

Master Sergeant Marsh wrote to Stafford Speedway:
It would be very kind to hear from Stafford fans. I am only here until May, and then deploy to Qatar for 6 months. I sure will miss the Stafford Shows this year. I told my son to dust off my seat on row 11. I look forward to checking your website every Saturday, and I just changed my address for Speedway Scene. Many thanks.