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Good to have that kit. I'd recommend smaller bills though. "Sure I have what you need, no I don't have change".
LEighton,
thanks you sir for your service to our country. BTW congrats on making it through the VBIED I would say the lord was looking out for ya that day!
thanks you sir for your service to our country. BTW congrats on making it through the VBIED I would say the lord was looking out for ya that day!
December 17th 2004
Location; Bayji Iraq MSR Hershy
Time; 07:15
Type attack; VBIED
Vehicles involved; Primary target Casspir, All vehicles, except lead security, were damaged.
Personnel injured; 2
Inroute to our work site our convoy was attacked by a VBIED(Chevy Suburban late 1970's model) painted to resemble a taxi(solid white with Safety Orange front an rear quarter panels). Vehicle was parked on side of roadway pointed in the opposite direction. Vehicle was cleared by lead security vehicle, when we were almost beside him, the operator of the VBIED hit the gas an drove the SUV under our Casspir(Smiling the whole time). As the driver of the Casspir I attempted to swerve away from the VBIED. As soon as I turned the wheel the VBIED detonated, launching our 16 ton vehicle end over end, landing on its side facing the opposite direction. "Wild" Bill Boyce received a concussion from the blast/over pressure. I received a flash burn on the left side of my face, laceration of my chin, was knocked out for about five minutes, and unknown to me at the time, I had C4 through C7 all compression fractures, and pulled damage to my Ulnar nerve.
This shows how large the Casspir is next to a up-armored Hummer.
Blast site.
Where the Casspir stopped moving.
Its tough looking at these pic's as I have no memory of them being taken.
Flash burn from the VBIED. It was later determined that the SUV had over 1000lbs of explosive's in the bed of her.
God bless you Leighton. Thanks for your service brother.
Yeah, that one was a fun ride, beat the heck out of anything you'll find at DisneyWorld. I still have issues with white SUV's pulling up to close to me!!
Leighton is one of the baddest dudes on OSA. Just sayin'.
you do realize if the shtf those hundreds will do you far less good than their equivalent now in beans and bullets. for more info on great beans reply
I'm far from being a bad ass, no one should be humbled by me, and I appreciate the thanks. I was one of over 40 American's working for the USACoE destroying all the captured munitions in Iraq. We were but one of four sites/depots operating 6 days a week from sun up to sun down. All the military would provide for us was a secure place to sleep, other than that we had to provide our own security for convoys, work site, and our billeting area. Besides what munitions were at our work areas we had to take calls from all military branch's for large scale finds on munitions, and had to go pick it up, and bring it back to be destroyed in our blast pits. We were destroying 150 to 350 tons every other day(talk about a fire works show), and burning hundreds of tons of artillery powders, fuses, and small arms ammunition every day.
So IED's, VBIED's, rocket/mortar attacks were common place, because alibaba wanted what we had an couldn't get, an he was always trying to kill us one way or the other. So during convoys everyone tended to get plenty of trigger time, and every time you heard something screatching overhead all you could do was find dirt, and pray it didn't hit a magazine or bunker that was to close. We were one of the highest paying companies in country, and also the one with the highest attrition rate. Right before I left, USAE(USA Enviromental) was offering pre-employment bonuses to get people to come to work(regular handler 25,000, QA 35,000, Explosive Safety specialist 45,000), some folks just don't like getting shot at.
P.S. I liked the money I was getting, and it may sound corny, I would have done the job for alot less. What I did kept alot of soldiers, marines, airmen, and sailors from getting blown up, shot up, or just plane old kill't. As long as it saved one life it was worth everything else we had to put up with there!!
So IED's, VBIED's, rocket/mortar attacks were common place, because alibaba wanted what we had an couldn't get, an he was always trying to kill us one way or the other. So during convoys everyone tended to get plenty of trigger time, and every time you heard something screatching overhead all you could do was find dirt, and pray it didn't hit a magazine or bunker that was to close. We were one of the highest paying companies in country, and also the one with the highest attrition rate. Right before I left, USAE(USA Enviromental) was offering pre-employment bonuses to get people to come to work(regular handler 25,000, QA 35,000, Explosive Safety specialist 45,000), some folks just don't like getting shot at.
P.S. I liked the money I was getting, and it may sound corny, I would have done the job for alot less. What I did kept alot of soldiers, marines, airmen, and sailors from getting blown up, shot up, or just plane old kill't. As long as it saved one life it was worth everything else we had to put up with there!!
ldp....Hero or Not, Thanks for Your Service. I never thought about any operations like that and appreciate the story.
I love when you do that!
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