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August 2009: An off-duty highway patrolman and his family are killed when they rent a Lexus ES350 and have a runaway crash. The NHTSA and the California Highway Patrol investigate the incident and believe the floor mat snagged the pedal, causing the uncontrollable acceleration. (See pictures of the best-selling cars in China...
Barker had already picked the target. There was a house, not far from here, that would be perfect. They had been on a patrol there just a little while ago. There was only one male and three females in the house during the daytime - a husband, a wife and two daughters. One was young, but the other was a teenager or in her twenties, it was hard to tell with all the clothes the women wore, as they frequently lamented. But Barker thought she was pretty hot, at least for a hadji chick. Barker told them that they should...
...southern Afghanistan, my humvee convoy stopped in a small village. It was just the moment that the gunner on my vehicle had been waiting for. His grandmother back home in Kentucky had sent him a package of hard candies "for the Afghan children," and he carried them on patrol. As the curious village children crept closer to the parked humvees, he started tossing out the treats. The children were delighted and responded by running closer, cheering, waving and flashing thumbs-up signs. It was a charming moment. The children were happy to see the soldiers, and the soldiers were thrilled...
...April, a raiding party seized the U.S. cargo ship M.V. Maersk Alabama--the first American ship to be successfully hijacked since the 1800s--but all the pirates were killed or captured in the ensuing standoff with a U.S. Navy destroyer. The navies of more than two dozen nations now patrol the Gulf of Aden, and cargo ships have begun to carry onboard deterrents like firearms and electrified handrails. Somalia's barely functioning government, however, remains incapable of stopping pirates, and many analysts fear that the number of attacks will increase again...
ADDITIONAL AREA OF PATROL STARTING IN JANUARY...