Kaboom!

Well, we had a bit of excitement last night. We picked up this uparmored Hum-vee the day before yesterday and drove it out to K crossing. Well the stupid thing wouldn’t drive over 35 without overheating and billowing black smoke. Please recall all the vehicle problems we’ve had… Anyway, the thing needed to get back and maintenance wouldn’t come get it, so our platoon Sgt said to have someone drive it back.

So around 2200 two guys took off in the truck to get back to Buehring since it wouldn’t go very fast. About 2210 we got a call that the truck had caught fire. So I’m thinking, a little fire. We had one catch fire before, and they just grabbed an extinguisher and put it out. Well, that’s not what happened here.



They were driving and the truck overheated, so they pulled over. They called in that they were broken down and right after they called the engine exploded. Not broke, exploded. Like big giant BOOM and fire ball. So they grabbed their stuff and make a run for it and called to say it was on fire.


Our relief was an hour late getting here (no big shocker there…) so by the time we got to the site there were MP’s all over and a big hubbub. The pictures are what the truck looked like when we got there. The hood and tires were totally melted. It was quite the happening.

Anyway, I’m pretty beat right now. That didn’t get us home until around 1am and then I had a hard time sleeping. Today we were out at the firing range for qualification and that was pretty sucky. I qualified though, so I don’t have to go back out. Well, I’m gonna run. Love ya!