Seeing the Kids was a Good Thing!
Heroes Remember
A lot of times you can tell by the nature of
whether the kids were out and coming to see
you because everywhere you went, you’re just
driving through downtown somewhere right?
The kids would either come out or they
wouldn’t and if the kids were coming out and
trying to give you a wave or whatever
you can pretty much
figure that was maybe not such a bad spot.
And the places where people were giving
you one of those, you weren’t really sure,
yah maybe a little more cautious.
But it was just a busy city and
people were going about their lives.
You never really knew where things
were going to come from.
They told us in our pre-mission training
that you had to watch out for the white
Toyota Corolla station wagons but
as I mentioned before, every other
vehicle was a white Toyota Corolla
station wagon. Watch out for piles of dirt,
there could be an IED in that.
Well, there’s so many piles of dirt
in a country like that especially as
they are building things, you could
drive yourself nuts worrying about
the white Toyota Corolla station wagons.
What we tried to just focus on was
keeping vehicles far enough away from us
that no matter what colour they were,
they weren’t right close to
the convoy itself. And we adopted
some tactics to keep us away from
the edges of the road. Every foot you are
away from a blast, it gets exponentially better
for the outcome of the vehicle so we just
drove down the middle of the road most
of the time and kept away from the shoulders.
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