Dear Members of the Randall Knife Society,

My name is Kelby Trant and I am a SPC in the ARMY (currently deployed to Iraq in support of OIF). I would like to take the time to say thank you all for the support you have shown in the past few months by sending care packages to my fellow comrades and I out here in Iraq. Thus far I've received a plentiful supply of food and personal hygiene products which was a big hit amongst the crew out here. It's really appreciated that ya'll take the time and money to ensure that we're taken care of out here in the desert.

A little bit about our unit out here, C 1-17 FAR is based out of Fort Sill, OK and our mission out here in Iraq is convoy security. We've been out here for 9 months thus far and still have a little under six left to go. Not too much longer until we make it back to the states. We're an artillery unit but since they don't use artillery anymore really, they have us doing other tasks such as convoy security.

I hope to get some pictures for anyone who's interested in C 1-17 FAR or who wants to know a little bit about Iraq. Just send me an email at KTrant81@yahoo.com or I can reply via this board for anyone. Hope you all have a great day and look forward to meeting some of you. Must say I'm not much of a knife or gun enthusiast (only know how to use a m16, m240b, m249, and a m2 lol) but do plan on picking up a couple firearms when I get back home to the states.

Sincerely,
SPC Trant, Kelby K.

P.S. Special thanks to Tom Welch before I forget for sending the packages out here and ensuring they reach their target. It's a great program ya'll are running and just want to ensure ya'll know it's working good and it's appreciated.

Kelby Trant