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Guard Soldiers head to Watkins Glen for NASCAR tributes
Blackanthem Military News, WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. - Members of the New York National Guard will travel here this weekend as part of the National Association for Stock Car Racing (NASCAR) tribute to the National Guard's 42nd Infantry Division on Saturday, August 11 and Sunday, August 12.
Approximately fifty Guardsmen and women from across the state will meet with Casey Mears, the NASCAR driver of Sunday's Number 24 National Guard Chevrolet, tour the pit and garage, meet a variety of NASCAR drivers and watch the day's race from a designated VIP section of the Glen.
Mears' car on Saturday will honor the New York National Guard's 42nd Infantry Division during the race. The National Guard racing team honors local units each time the NASCAR racing tour visits a different state. The car will be painted with insignia and unit symbols from the 42nd Infantry Division.
The 42nd Division, known in the Army as the Rainbow Division for its unique shoulder insignia, was created at Camp Mills near Garden City, Long Island in the summer of 1917 when America mobilized National Guard forces for service in World War I. The division served with distinction and was reactivated for European service again during World War II where members of the 42nd Division helped liberate the notorious Dachau Concentration Camp in the spring of 1945.
The 42nd Division has been part of the New York National Guard since 1947, following its redeployment from overseas in World War II.
Rainbow Division Soldiers are among the first military responders following the terror attacks in New York City on September 11th, 2001. As part of the New York National Guard response and recovery in New York City, thousands of division Soldiers served alongside New York's Finest and Bravest to assist with security, logistics, transportation and other essential emergency response needs.
The 42nd Division again made history in early 2004 when the division headquarters and units across the state mobilized for combat service in Iraq, the first National Guard division element to lead large-scale combat formations in the Army since the Korean War. The Rainbow Division led Task Force Liberty, the multinational division headquarters in North Central Iraq from February through November of 2005, providing critical support to the successful Iraqi constitutional national referendum vote.
Members of the 42nd Division have literally gone from ground zero to the Sunni Triangle and back in the course of the past six years. Elements of the division's 27th Brigade Combat Team here in New York are now preparing for a pending deployment to Afghanistan in 2008.
The National Guard guests of Watkins Glen include combat veterans from Operation Iraqi Freedom as well as some of the Guard's newest members to join the military family. The Soldiers represent a variety of commands within the 42nd Infantry Division and the New York National Guard and come from all corners of the state.
Saturday's race is the Busch Series Zippo 200 and Sunday is the Cup Series Centurion Boats race. The courses run 200.9 and 220.1 miles, respectively for each race. This will be Mears' first race at Watkins Glen and his first road race in the Busch series.
Mears and the National Guard car are currently in the top 20 of all NASCAR racers after 21 starts this season. He has won one race so far this season, four times placed in the top five finishers and six times finished within the top ten.
"I'm interested to see how we're going to be on the road course," Mears said in a statement to Auto Racing Daily, "and I know that the National Guard team is working hard to bring a good car."
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