The 6th Annual Upstate NY Wounded Vet Motorcycle Run

For Immediate Release:

The Upstate NY Wounded Vet Run Inc. will be working with DJ Debonair & Uforia Entertainment to host The 6th Annual Upstate NY Wounded Vet Run! The motorcycle run will start at:

Brunswick Harley-Davidson

1130 Hoosick Rd, Troy, NY 12180

Registration will open at 9:00am. Kickstands up at noon

$20 per rider & $10 per passenger

With great honor we proudly announce this year's 2023 Honoree for the Upstate NY Wounded Vet Run as United States Army SPC. Marissa Strock. She joined the Army in 2004 as a Military Police officer, after basic training she was stationed at Fort Lewis WA, where she joined the 170th MP Co known as the “Dragon Slayers”. Specialist Strock deployed to Baghdad to meet up with her deployed unit in 2005. Once there Specialist Strock began working alongside Iraqi Police and Iraqi Army, pulling security at checkpoints and doing routine patrols to show a presence in Southern Baghdad. This was an area known to locals as "The Triangle of Death". On 24 Nov 2005, while en route to a mission an IED (Improvised explosive device) would detonate beneath Specialist Strocks vehicle. The blast killed her team leader, her driver and the Iraqi police colonel in the back seat. Specialist Strock was Med-Evaced to Baghdad, then to Germany and finally to Walter Reed Hospital in Maryland. After 18 months in the hospital she returned home to Upstate NY as a Purple Heart Recipient and double amputee.

On July 29th, WE RIDE FOR HER!

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