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Originally Posted by Fat Charlie
Iraq. You create your own traffic patterns when you've got a kid manning a .50 on your roof. Traffic is even more meaningless when your truck was tired even before they bolted on the armor kit- after that a moped with three guys on it can leave you standing still. Hopping berms is almost impossible then, too.
What's infuriating is when you're stuck closing a road until the engineers clear the IED, and within 10 minutes the small dirt road paralleling the highway has 5 cars abreast and every one of them thinks he'll be the one guy to talk you into letting him go through. "Bomb, yes, very dangerous. I go through, please?"
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We were required to share the road in Afghanistan, so we always had ancient Corollas full of people passing us. At least you would not think those would have bombs.
Probably.
Our escort liked to drive as fast as they could, often slightly faster than our trucks could manage and then we would have cars and semis passing us on the shoulder.
Did they put loads several feet high on top of semi trailers in Iraq? Would you have people on top of several feet of stuff on top of semis?
I guess that you need to be fearless there to drive at all.
My sister's driving stopped bothering me after deployment.
Sorry for the thread hijack!
