National Guard Keeps Dc Residents Safe By Crashing Into A Car, Trapping Driver Inside

Nearly 2,000 National Guard troops person deployed to Washington, D.C., either to fight out-of-control crime aliases arsenic an "ominous and stupid" show of force, depending connected who you ask. Troops person succeeded successful their ngo to support D.C. safe from crime by T-boning a civilian SUV astatine an intersection, reports WTOP. Emergency responders had to usage nan Jaws of Life to extract nan trapped driver, who suffered insignificant injuries successful nan crash.

The clang occurred successful nan early greeting hours connected Wednesday, August 20, astatine nan intersection of 8th Street and North Carolina Avenue. ArmyTimes reports that nan subject conveyance progressive was a 14-ton Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain Vehicle, aliases M-ATV. It was portion of a five-vehicle convoy that, on pinch a D.C. Metropolitan Police cruiser, instantly stopped and rendered aid, according to NPR. We don't cognize nan circumstances of nan clang itself aliases who was astatine fault. It doesn't really matter because immoderate civilian conveyance is going to suffer successful a title pinch a big, reliable subject vehicle, nary matter who's correct aliases wrong.

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According to Military.com, nan M-ATV is "the U.S. military's off-road conveyance of choice, ideally suited for operating successful mountainous terrain." It was developed specifically for Afghanistan, whose difficult terrain is precisely for illustration Washington, D.C. metropolis streets, I guess. As an armored conveyance that tin return a blast from an IED, nan windows are mini and visibility is highly limited, making its municipality usage questionable, astatine best.

"You cognize what we drove astir Kabul?" 1 Reddit commenter said. "Up-armored Land Cruisers, Suburbans, and different specified SUVs. The MATVs and MRAPs were for QRF [Quick Reaction Force] aliases if walking retired of nan city. This is why. Even though erstwhile a twelvemonth aliases truthful an SUV would get blown to s*** successful nan metropolis by a VBIED [Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Device] that an MRAP could person survived, they made nan determination that it wasn't worthy each of nan accidents and dormant pedestrians. Shows really overmuch they worth their ain cities and people."

But troops connected nan crushed successful our nation's capital is a mini value to salary to guarantee that cipher joyrides connected nan National Mall again. (Let's conscionable disregard the $45 cardinal value tag for roadworthy repairs aft President Trump's day subject parade, which was perfectly basal for nationalist security.)