{"id":576610,"date":"2010-05-24T13:45:15","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T17:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=19823"},"modified":"2010-05-24T13:45:15","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T17:45:15","slug":"always-walk-in-the-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/576610","title":{"rendered":"Always Walk in the Tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u201cWalk in the tracks,\u201d 1<sup>st<\/sup> Sgt Stephen Cummings told me as we walked toward the Helmand River. I was shooting some video, and veered off a little. Then, not looking where I was going, I veered off again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p>\u201cI said walk in the tracks! You know why I say that, don\u2019t you?\u201d He reminded me that any ground that hasn\u2019t been run over by a vehicle could potentially contain an IED. \u00a0So, I made sure to stay to in the tracks.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19824\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 244px\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-19824\" href=\"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/2010\/05\/24\/always-walk-in-the-tracks\/cummings\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19824\" title=\"cummings\" src=\"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/files\/2010\/05\/cummings-234x312.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"312\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">1st Sgt Stephen Cummings oversees 31 LAVs used for gear and personnel<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>1<sup>st<\/sup> Sgt Cummings is a member of the Marines\u2019 1<sup>st<\/sup> LAR. The 43-year-old originally from Memphis, oversees the 31 light armored vehicles in Charlie Company that transport passengers and supplies.\u00a0 He\u2019s based at South Station, a remote base south of the river that has even fewer creature comforts than FOB Payne. There is no refrigeration. So, their bottled drinking water comes in two temperatures, warm or hot.<\/p>\n<p>Cummings and his wife Tamara have two children, Sean, 15 and Lauren, 7.\u00a0 But his right hand man, Lance Cpl Brandon Foley is just getting started.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19825\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 269px\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-19825\" href=\"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/2010\/05\/24\/always-walk-in-the-tracks\/foley\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19825\" title=\"Foley\" src=\"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/files\/2010\/05\/Foley-259x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">LAV-log driver, Lance Cpl Brandon Foley<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The 25 year old LAV driver got married to his wife, Evilina, on April 5<sup>th<\/sup>, exactly one month before shipping out to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s going home in December. But unlike his boss who\u2019s been a Marine for 23 years, Brandon plans to leave the Corps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to work for the FBI and fight cyber-crimes,\u201d he told me.<\/p>\n<p>He plans to finish up his degree in computer science after his service ends in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWalk in the tracks,\u201d 1st Sgt Stephen Cummings told me as we walked toward the Helmand River. I was shooting some video, and veered off a little. Then, not looking where I was going, I veered off again. \u201cI said walk in the tracks! You know why I say that, don\u2019t you?\u201d He reminded me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}