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A dispatch from a CCS Southwest club racer and Staff Sargeant we know who is with the Air Force in Iraq, and who will remain anonymous:

Hey, how’s it going, fellas? I am in Northern Iraq. This place is harsh. The dust is so fine and it gets everywhere. Then when it rains it turns to this mud that sticks to everything and never comes off. Stupid mud.

There is a lot of interesting stuff here. I have seen all sorts of Warsaw-pact equipment.

I have been working so much. There is not much time for sleep. I can’t tell you much because of security reasons.

I just know when I get back I am going to take the Gixxer out for a little ride and throw the girlfriend on back. You try not to think about that stuff because the road ahead is long and it will only drive you insane.

I know one thing, though, I am missing a lot of next year’s season and that sucks. I just want to let all the fellas know in the CCS Southwest series that I wish them luck and throw a race down for me.

My job is to make sure when somebody gets
ambushed when he is doing his thing we ensure close air support to make sure he can make it home. I guess if you look at it I spend more time protecting our own because we will not stand to let anymore of these random attacks on convoys and helicopters go untouched. As for now they just keep us away from the Iraqis because it is too much of a risk for one of us to die.

Well, gotta go. Good luck to all the Southwest guys and I will see them soon.