About a week ago an Italian landmine has been found in my area of responsibility.
It was brought by a truck, which dumped it when unloading some soil.
I suspect that the soil came directly from a minefield and the driver and the laborers were lucky enough...It hasn't gone off.
Nice present. Cheers for that, we all were pretty grateful.
Finally the US Army turned up and took care of it. They instantly initiated that landmine on the spot using a special robot and some heavy explosives. Before setting it off, the Army blocked the road with heavily armed vehicles on both sides in approximately a one-kilometer radius for about 15 minutes.
The local drivers started to complain about it, as usual, but the Americans didn't give a shit, also as usual. One of the local taxi drivers came to me and asked me to let them pass because there was an emergency case that needed to go to the hospital. I was busy talking with one of the Staff sergeants. He took us to a vehicle and showed me something in the boot covered with a blue burkha, possibly a woman...
But I couldn’t see any emergency, well, actually I hadn't seen anything, because the emergency was wrapped in that burkha. Finally, I told my interpreter, "That's fine, but if they are going through and that explosive goes off I’m pretty sure nobody in that vehicle is gonna get to the hospital, but instead to the Paradise."
The Staff sergeant just smiled. From that moment on, no one was in a hurry.
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