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“Nooooooooo! What the hell are you doing, Sergeant?” the Lieutenant screamed as he sprinted towards me through the dusty chaos.
“You know that Filipino news crew is here to do a story on us disturbing the peace around here, right?” he exclaimed breathlessly.
“No, I didn’t Sir, but I think I just proved their point,” I said.
The Sergeant next to me doubled over in laughter as the PR Lieutenant’s face was beet red with various emotions…but the damage had already been done.
During a US Marine/Filipino Marine joint exercise in the middle of the island of Luzon in the Philippines, a news crew had been invited up to the training site by the PR team. We were to show them how we were working together to help the Filipino Marines build a new observation tower for their gunnery range in Crow Valley. No one told me the crew was also interested in investigating the overall disturbance we were causing the local residents.
I thought I was giving them some great footage for our ‘cooperation’ story, but really I’d just given them the perfect money shot for their ‘disturbance’ one…and it ran on the local 6 o’clock news that night.
