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Spring Snow |
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April snow white out
I watch from inside
Venturing
out for animals
Safe and comfy under snuggly
Spring
Snow Memories
Week of field training finished
Snow
began last night
Range control closed base
No
non-essential movement
Spring Snow Lockdown
No
"hot" meals emergency MREs
Conserving fuel no heaters
Zero security hiding in fart sack
No stop in sight snow
falling
Spring Snow Lockdown
Tuesday morning still
locked down;
MREs are all gone, bingo fuel
Track
Commander meeting
What to do, what to do
Spring Snow
Lockdown
Drivers and TCs work
Removing even track
pads
Trailers and wheeled vehicles towed
To Main Post
we head
Spring Snow Drive
No different than night
ops
Stay tight within visibility
Towing vehicles at
the rear
The convoy pushes north
Spring Snow Plow
The last obstacle; the descent
Cliff on the left,
ravine to right
Drivers only in tracks ordered
Towing
vehicles first
Spring Snow Tension
One by one they
go down
Soldiers watching safe at top
The last track
starts down
At the curve slipping right
Spring Snow
Terror
Slow motion it goes over
Eight revolutions
to the bottom
It lands on the tracks
Medic, Medic
sounds.
Spring Snow Terror
The soldiers on foot
Follow down the track path
Three scramble into ravine
Onto the damaged track
Spring Snow Warriors
Driver
has a pulse
Second rescuer through TC hatch
Stabilize
neck towel duct tape
Stabilize back two rifles duct tape
Spring Snow Casualty
Track Ramp dropped
Stretcher
arrives
Lay driver on stretcher
Out he goes
Spring
Snow Relief
Leg from under duffle bags
Frantic
digging tossing bags
Body, no pulse, no respiration
He's a medic failed orders
Spring Snow Death |
By Mark I. Kirkmeyer
Copyright 2007
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February 2, 2013 |
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Author's
Note: This poem is based on an actual incident
that occurred in 1986 at C Company, 1st Battalion, 10th
Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division (Mechanized),
Fort Carson.
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About
Author...
Mark Kirkmeyer served as a Light Weapons/Medical Specialist in the U.S. Army (1983-88), the U.S. Army Reserve (1988-1992), and the California National Guard (1992-1995). He is Gulf War Veteran (1991) and served in Korea (1986-87).It is illegal to
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