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Personal Narrative: Ripping My Stryker

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While on mission if you have never had to go to the bathroom and knew you could never stop and could not wait for the end of an 18 mile drive my tanker boots were like wearing slippers of the gods. Our Stryker was moving 25mph myself bouncing around like a BB in a tin can I tackled the job the best way I knew how line the box with the bag brace and let-err-rip. Ripping my boots off ripping one leg out of my pants and shredding my combat underwear all happened like I was David Copperfield with a trick the demon was screaming out of me like water off of oil. As the trip went on I lost every ounce of fluid in my body was completely dehydrated but my cloths, boots, draws and the inside of the Stryker was completely demon free.

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