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“If you can’t handle that situation with less aggressive force than our soldiers in an active war zone...”

Right! The only time I had an M4 pointed in my face was when I mistakenly rolled past the stop sign going into the Embassy complex in the IZ in Iraq one morning in 2005.

My ID had bounced off the rearview mirror and I was bent over, trying to pick it up off the floor and the truck rolled forward past the ‘Stop, Wait To Be Called Forward’ sign. I was in an unmarked civilian pickup truck behind the last vehicle in an American military convoy. Ie, fitting the profile of a VBIED. When I came up with my ID only one Marine guard was visible the others had popped behind the blast barriers. The Marine was red-faced and screaming something about the “right to shoot you” and all. He kept saying it over and over.

I dunno it was 6am-ish and I was returning from an equipment pickup in the IZ. Hadn’t even had my first cup of coffee. It was a bad time for both of us.

My ID had bounced off the rearview mirror and I was bent over, trying to pick it up off the floor and the truck rolled forward past the ‘Stop, Wait To Be Called Forward’ sign. I was in an unmarked civilian pickup truck behind the last vehicle in an American military convoy.

I got that far and was already shaking my head that you're still here to post. You are a lucky man.

That sounds like my story. I was with the 901st MI BN and running with JSOC as a THT team leader (Tactical Humint Team).

We almost got lit up at a checkpoint because we dropped our RF card and both leaned down to get it while rolling forward. We had ANPVS7s on and we saw a whole damn squad "wake up" and paint us with their PEQ4s.

Yeah...I crapped my pants....ain't afraid to admit it.