Milam Byers
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And so the story I know is from Tim, who was driving that morning and
They're traveling down the highway and the bomb goes off, which obviously rocks this Humvee.
I mean, this Humvee has no doors.
There's a gunner sticking out of the roof, like a turret gunner.
Yeah, 150 count probably.
Sergeant, you know, constantly looking for danger.
And the bomb goes off in the road.
Tim hears a command.
His commander's sitting right beside him.
Josh is sitting shotgun.
And the command is, Sergeant, it's an IED, keep moving forward.
In that moment, Tim just guns it.
Like this explosion, this Humvee's not moving very well.
but his instinct and his training is just like, I'm gonna keep moving forward because they knew there would be one blast and then they would follow it up with another one to finish everybody off.
So he guns it, the Humvee just kind of hobbles, like there's all flat tires, it's been blown up, but somehow it gets out of the way
The other bomb goes off and it's behind them.
So that command saved everyone in that Humvee.
Tim didn't know it at the time because he heard his commander clearly yell out a command.
So there's just smoke and blood and dust everywhere.
He jumps out and