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Tuesday, March 29, 2005


Over at Camp Lejeune
Just after Sunday's final Easter service, my mom and dad drove me to the Nashville airport where I hopped a jet to Raleigh-Durham airport. Raleigh is the capital of North Carolina; Durham is about 20 miles northwest. The airport is named after both cities, but there is no municipality called, "Raleigh-Durham," as I have heard sports announcers say.

My wife and two at-home children had driven there last Tuesday. Durham is my wife's hometown and they stayed with her dad. Friday they drove to Camp Lejeune to pick up our Marine son, Pfc. Stephen Sensing, who was getting the weekend off for Easter.

Stephen had set up a tour of the AAV ramp (for us Army types, the motor pool) for them. My son Thomas took some video with my new JVC GR-D72 digital video camera. (Here is what an AAV is and what it's for.)

Here are some grabs off the video of a pretty sharp looking Marine!





A former Marine left a comment in another post that driving one of these things is like "driving a house." Here are two shots of the inside.



This is the interior compartment where the infantrymen ride.



This is the driver's compartment, viewed from the rear.

Stephen's uncle drove him back to Lejeune Monday. We drove home all day and arrived back after suppertime.

by Donald Sensing, 3/29/2005 05:41:00 AM. Permalink |  





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