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They came to the state road 593 overpass and suddenly:

Bam! Bam!

Poole dropped down into his seat as rifle rounds pinged and bounced off the JLTV’s armor

“Take him out”

“Roger that, sir”

Poole peered up through the windshield and watched as his gunner’s big 50 shredded the man with the rifle

Noas the New York-New York casino with its half-size replica of the Statue of Liberty and its faux New York skyline A pedestrian ay crossed the Strip from New York-New York to the MGM Grand Poole saw three people on the ay And he saw the silhouettes of guns

“Don’t fire unless we are—” Pool ordered At which point the three on the ay opene

d fire with handguns and a shotgun, none of which would have any effect on the JLTV, let alone the tanks

“Okay,” Poole said, and the 50 opened up again, showering spent brass down the windshield and killing the civilians

If they knehat a 50 caliber does to flesh and bonePoole thought

Thirty-five miles an hour now, slowly past the Monte Carlo, slowly past the Aria An electronic billboard advertised Celine Dion, who, Poole was pretty sure, was going to have to cancel her show

Another pedestrian ay More gun holes in their bodies and chunks of theh the air

Civilians American civilians

He would go down in history as the first commander to open fire on American civilians He felt sick But at another level, relieved, because so far the only firing done had been by his own JLTV So far this hardly called for a whole tank attack force