Always Be Prepared
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Rollover, a word burned into my subconscious from month after month, year after year of training during my short time in the Army. Mentally processing the checklist of things to do during and immediately after a vehicle rollover, whether in combat or training, and beginning the proper procedures once the rollover has been arrested. The whole process begins with a repetition of those words, or it’s supposed to at least. Reality tends to play out differently during an actual rollover. The things you’re supposed to say turn into words I don’t believe I am allowed to say in this summary, but grab and hold the attention of your teammates and let them know to start that mental checklist, nonetheless.
The adrenaline rush that follows the realization of what is happening, time slows to what feels like a stop, feeling your body twist as the vehicle does the same. The weightlessness, and if you’re a gunner, needing to drop inside the vehicle to keep from being crushed; or perhaps an intern on a four-wheeler, the impact of your body onto the floor or ground. In this case, the difference was the intern on the four-wheeler, which was a cartoonish scramble to move out of the way of the still rolling four-wheeler, and the “walk of shame” to the road to get service to call for help to roll the four-wheeler back upright so you can continue work.
