Reader Eggs sends this cool story from ABCNews about ingenuity saving lives. Staff Sergeant Chris Fessenden got a remote controled truck for his 2007 Iraq tour and was using it in Afghanistan. Here's part of the story: ...The little truck was used by the troops to run ahead of them on patrols and look for roadside bombs. Fessenden has had it since 2007, when Ernie and Kevin Guy, the owner of the Everything Hobby shop in Rochester, rigged it with a wireless video camera and shipped it to him. Last week, it paid off. Chris Fessenden said he had loaned the truck to a group of fellow soldiers, who used it to check the road ahead of them on a patrol. It got tangled in a trip wire connected to what Fessenden guesses could have been 500 lbs. of explosives. The bomb went off. The six soldiers controlling the truck from their Humvee were unhurt... Read the whole piece here.
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Aug 04 2011, 01:16 AM
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