MTS HONORS KALITTA
Also on each box on the 299 pallets sent was a photo of the DHL Funny Car and team. The 47,102 kilos (103,840 pounds) of military mail were transported by Kalitta Air to Bahrain and from there distributed to American troops in the war zones.
Rodger Comstock, president and CEO of Mail Terminal Services, which sponsors
Jack Beckman's Valvoline/MTS Dodge Charger R/T Funny Car in the NHRA POWERade
Drag Racing Series, said that every box of military mail that was sent out on
Monday from MTS's Military Mail Terminal in Newark, N.J., included a note
saluting Scott Kalitta and wishing him “Godspeed.”
Also on each box on
the 299 pallets sent was a photo of the DHL Funny Car and team. The 47,102 kilos
(103,840 pounds) of military mail were transported by Kalitta Air to Bahrain and
from there distributed to American troops in the war zones.
"Mail
Terminals Services teams with the USPS and Kalitta Air in the military mail
process and our hearts and best wishes go out to the whole Kalitta family and
team," said Comstock.
Scott Kalitta lost his life in a qualifying crash
on Saturday at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park at the NHRA SuperNationals.