Hot sand specs, wet dirt, some scrapes, minor bleeding and burns mixed with sweat can be seen glistening on top of my forearms as I gripped the sensitive butterfly trigger of the “Ma Deuce.” Hundreds of expended brass cartridges and links falling off the hood and roof of the truck sound as if Santa’s sleigh has made it to the neighborhood. Even though, the internal radio communications are squelching between member’s inside our truck, those truck commanders from the other three trucks, and the SCIF (Sensitive Compartmentalized Information Facility) commanders; sounds of my heartbeat and the heavy winding rubber on the road drowns out all attempts of sending or receiving even one complete message. After all, standing inside a truck with a whole …show more content…
Normally, the engineers spend nearly half a day removing ordnance and keep a presence around such an area. However, with the largest field of vision, poked out of the truck, I didn’t see a sign that anyone was coming to commandeer that ordinance. Our routine commenced. After departing the main Entry Controlled Point, where local forces participated in the security of protecting our camp, we stopped briefly at the test fire range. It’s an extremely oversized sand whole where I get to test fire my “Ma Deuce” (.50 Cal, belt-fed, crew served, M2, Browning Heavy Machine Gun). The test passes, as do the others on trucks one and two. And immediately we are on the road, in a town that breezes by in about six minutes of driving. It is a remarkable town with peoples’ business literally in the street. Kids are playing in blown up cars and parents look to be haggling prices at the small stands. Nothing but the openness of the world is just passed this. Although, there is a few check points that our TC (Truck Commander), Wild Man, sends back to the SCIF, before and after approaching. Also, there is a local police check point that is hastily built. Here: always a hand full of unarmored rather small pick-up trucks with a tiny version of my .50 Cal affixed in their beds. The trucks have police stickers on them, along
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On Thursday, August 31, 2017 at approximately 2232 hours, I was dispatched to a residence across the street from 2220 University St in reference of a suspicious person inside of a black truck. Upon arrival I spoke to the complainant Ms. Delisa Smothers. Ms. Smothers stated that at approximately 2230 hours, an unknown black male went inside her neighbor's truck located across the street at 2221 University street.
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The day was so boiling that you could see the heat simmering above the road. I sat beside Lauren, my best friend of two years, as we buzzed down the highway in her father’s, or as I call him Burnie’s, Cadillac De Ville Convertible. With the roof off and wind in our ears, blocking any possible sound from being heard.
At the beginning, the narrator tells how he was involved in the war, and the narrator says “You're no fool; you're a college kid. You were just about to declare a polisci major at UC Riverside when you got a letter ordering you to active duty for Iraq, along with the rest of your California National Guard brigade” (Kovite 199). Then the narrator moves to present situation, the narrator is in charge of the m2.50 caliber machine gun on the convoy to bring fuel for army vehicles, and generators. The narrator describes his difficult situation if he sees a car that is moving closer to the convoy he would never know if the car has been rigged as a bomb or is it just a regular car with civilians.
In the summer of 2011, I was sent out advance party to Twenty-nine Palms to set up and coordinate initial ammunition supply point for Desert FireX. Prior to leaving Camp Pendleton, I was required to draft up my plans for the a field ammunition supply point, in addition to displaying my outline for the vehicles’ combat load. While using the approved plans to set up the ammunition supply point, I also pre-staged the ammunition segregated by each firing battery. After the field ammunition supply point was established, it was my duty to guard and maintain accountability of the millions of dollars worth of ammunition over the course of three days. Upon arrival of the first wave of gun trucks to load the ammunition, it was expressed that a couple
“And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, ‘I need a caretaker.’ So, God made a farmer." These words from Paul Harvey rang from the home TVs of millions of people during the 2013 Super Bowl broadcasting. As the 2 minute commercial played, it became one of the most memorable Super Bowl commercials ever created. Dodge Ram produced this commercial not only to advertise their trucks, but also depict the American farmer. Though it didn’t advertise their trucks directly, the Dodge commercial indirectly advertises through describing the qualities of a farmer in order to show the comparable qualities of their Ram trucks. This is no ordinary commercial, and it is successful because of its logical, emotional, and ethical appeal to the audience.
PFC Thiel Dillon F 26 October 2012 Article 92 Essay 760th ORD CO (EOD) While at his NTC rotation PFC Thiel was tasked by SFC Graff with being at the trucks at 0630 to begin the duty day. PFC Thiel along with a few others were late to the trucks. As a result everyone in the company lost the privilege of going to the shoppete to get supplies by punishment of SFC Graff. While on guard duty the night before going to the field PFC Thiel was unable to clean his weapon because he did not have a weapons cleaning kit.
On 6Mar18 at 1114 hrs. I, Deputy Halbasch, was dispatched to Co Rd 18 near the lake access to Boulder Lake for a traffic accident.
Having grown up in the Tahoe Truckee area, my participation in athletics, and a multitude of other team based activities, have consumed a vast majority of my teenage life, and have aided in my finding a variety of things I am passionate about. These activities have taught me many important life skills that I am able to contribute to both the Team community and community as a whole. These competencies include a strong sense of leadership, accountability, a clear sense of self, and effective communication, all of which I utilize in my day to day life. These skills also provide me with the ability to set effective goals and accomplish them.
Police departments are too militarized because they are using vehicles that are regularly used by military or higher grade departments. The News Cazette says, The county will have a new vehicle available soon — the Champaign County sheriff's office this year received a demilitarized Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle that it is currently modifying for use in police activities. The county acquired the vehicle, free of charge, through the state's Law Enforcement Support Office, which distributes surplus military property to state police agencies. Police departments are too militarized because they are using vehicles that
A patrol team from the 1st Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division is responsible for searching suspected insurgent hideouts, capturing enemy combatants and bringing them in for questioning. On July 28th, 2011 the patrol team was in the city of Bagdad, Iraq when a roadside bomb takes out the first two vehicles in the convoy killing four soldiers. They immediately pull to the side of the road and take cover as the rest of the convoy comes under small arms fire. A long fight pursues, but the patrol team is able to disarm the insurgents and take them captive. The next day, back at camp, the platoon leader puts several soldiers from the patrol team in charge of interrogating one of the suspects. He explains the technique he wants used to obtain this
The author creates a sense of urgency through his ability to place the reader into the Lieutenant’s point of view during the accident. The Lieutenant is taking quick action, yet the reader is unclear what the true nature of the danger is. The situation gets seemingly worse as the story goes on until finally a gruesome resolution is found.
I chose this song because it reminds me of my brother who has passed away. he always called our vehicle his truck. The theme of the song is how much the singer misses his brother and how he feels closer to him when he is in his truck. The speed at which death can come is shown by the little stuff he notices about the truck. Driving the truck helps him to deal with the loss of his brother “People got their ways of coping Oh, and I’ve got mine I drive your truck”.
The ruckus from the bottom of the truck is unbearable, because of the noise and excessive shaking. As we slowly climbed the mountain road to reach our lovely cabin, it seemed almost impossible to reach the top, but every time we reached it safely. The rocks and deep potholes shook the truck and the people in it, like a paint mixer. Every window in the truck was rolled down so we could have some leverage to hold on and not loose our grip we needed so greatly. The fresh clean mountain air entered the truck; it smelt as if we were lost: nowhere close to home. It was a feeling of relief to get away from all the problems at home. The road was deeply covered with huge pines and baby aspen trees. Closely examining the