A close shave?

Techically, i should be on my way peacefully to the long awaited civilian conversion course... I'm done with my final full troop and i'd say this one gave me something to etch within my memory for well.. A bloody long time indeed.

Now as a 'proud' member of the Armour family, everyone is well familiar with the overturning drill. Especially as an armour spec, this seemingly senseless thing is basically drilled into our minds from the first time i was introduced to my dearest BX.

Now i've got to be one pretty damn suay sonnovabiatch to have to execute that damn drill for real just before i ORD. It may seem pretty funny after that, but side turning ain't fun. If my vehicle had turtled, God knows what would have happened.

In any case, thankfully the fall was pretty gradual. My vehicle reversed too quickly down a side ditch with soil softened by the rain. It slided down pretty slowly, but irreversibly. My fall was actually pretty comfortable on my part. Standing within my cupola, i just fell together with the vehicle as it side turned and was basically lying by my side.

But it did freak the hell out of me wondering how's my men at the back. They evacuated pretty quickly. Everyone was out before i even had a chance to find out how they were. The fact that they were drenched with diesel leaking out of the vehicle probably accelerated their exit from the vehicle.

Well there you have it. The stupid action of leaning down compacting yourself and hugging each other works. My entire section executed the vehicle overturning drill perfectly.

No one was hurt except for a few knocks and some aftermath effect of being drenched in diesel resulting in some weird rash on some of their skin. But thank God nothing else happened.

In any case, no one seemed too concerned over the incident. The mission carried on almost immediately, i had to endure some variour highly annoying persons visiting and asking some highly annoying questions. My vehicle got towed out and is basically screwed now, aaaand i'm still on my way to civilian conversion course peacefully....

Hopefully...