"200,000 Soldiers Rush to California to Fight the Fire!" – The New York Times

"President Clinton personally went to California to organize a rescue!" ......USA Today

The next day, the army's involvement in the disaster relief made headlines in the media.

The people of the United States were shocked by the scene of thousands of planes, tens of thousands of military vehicles, and 200,000 soldiers rushing to the disaster area, and California suddenly became the focus of attention in the United States.

The rest of the world is also concerned about California, but not about the wildfires in California, but about the huge transportation capacity of the U.S. military.

Everyone knows that the United States is very strong, but no one knows too much about how strong it is, but they know that the United States has a lot of aircraft carriers and a lot of nuclear warheads!

Now, after the huge transportation capacity is revealed, all countries have a more intuitive understanding of how strong the United States is!

Within a few hours, 200,000 troops can be assembled and rushed to California, such mobilization and transportation capacity are rarely achieved by any country, especially transportation capacity, and only the United States can come up with so many large transport planes in the world today, which also allows countries to see the importance of large transport planes for the military.

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After 200,000 soldiers and hundreds of firefighters put out the fire overnight, the fire was basically stabilized and did not spread to the periphery.

Yes, it's just basically stabilized, 200,000 soldiers are a lot, and hundreds of firefighting planes are also a lot, but thousands of acres of burning forests can't be extinguished at once, and 200,000 soldiers can only cut a firebreak with the help of firefighting planes overnight, and then watch the raging fire burn to their heart's content.

Forest fire fighting is different from urban fire extinguishing, very little can be done, the city has complete fire fighting facilities, the road is smooth, and in case of a fire, you can directly use the water in the fire hydrant to extinguish the fire, or you can send a fire truck.

But there are no fire-fighting facilities in the forest, and the rugged mountain road fire-fighting vehicles can not enter, and can only use the fire-fighting plane to splash a little water, but this is a drop in the bucket for thousands of acres of burning forests, often the fire-fighting aircraft has just poured water to extinguish a little mountain fire, and when it goes to load water, the water splashed before has already been evaporated by high temperature and burned again.

Personnel can not directly extinguish the fire, under the high temperature and smoke, people can not get close at all, let alone extinguish the fire, only cut out the firebreak, let the fire burn to the fullest, and wait until it burns almost and the fire becomes smaller, with the help of the firefighting aircraft can extinguish the fire little by little.

But even if it is to cut the firebreak, 4 soldiers were sacrificed last night, the forest is too big, and the wind blows, the speed of the fire spreads beyond imagination, sometimes surrounded by mountain fires without knowing it, and when it is too late to find out, although the army has helicopters, but under the high temperature and thick smoke, it is impossible to get in, let alone rescue. This is also the most dangerous place in the forest firefighting, unknowingly surrounded by mountain fires, and the surrounded people should not have been burned to death by the heat, and the smoke can kill them first.

Humans have advanced equipment, and soldiers are rigorously trained, but these are insignificant before the wrath of nature.

"Ladies and gentlemen, after 15 hours of continuous work by 200,000 soldiers, a 30-meter-wide and 11.7-kilometer-long firebreak has been cut down overnight, and the wildfire has basically been controlled.

In order to prevent the fires from burning into the firebreak and extinguishing the fires as soon as possible, the soldiers worked for 15 hours and did not go back to the camp at the bottom of the mountain to rest, but collectively slept in the forest at the end of the firebreak. ”

In the forest, a female NBC reporter is holding a microphone to report to the camera, and as soon as her voice falls, the camera hits the camera to the ground.

At this moment, on the thick fallen leaves, the soldiers who had worked all night slept together one by one, they had no tents, no blankets, so they slept on the dead leaves with their clothes together, endlessly, and they could not see the end at a glance.

Seeing this, the female reporter turned around and quietly wiped her tears, and then walked to a soldier standing guard with a gun.

"What is your name, how old are you, and where are you from?" the female reporter asked, looking at the soldier.

The soldier did not speak, his eyes fixed on the raging mountain fire 30 meters ago. There are rules in the army that it is forbidden to chat while standing guard.

Seeing that the soldier did not speak, the female reporter shrugged helplessly and prepared to leave with the photographer, when they just raised their feet, a soldier came over, saluted the soldier standing guard, and prepared to take over the task of standing guard.

The soldier standing guard returned a military salute and walked away from the guard area, but as soon as he took a step forward, there was a soreness in his feet, and he stood for too long, his feet were already stiff, and he could only recover after moving a little.

The soldier standing guard limped towards the "camp" in this way, banged his legs as he walked to speed up his recovery, came to the "camp" and found a vacant seat and sat down, leaned on the trunk of a tree, took out a bag of beef jerky from his pocket and ate it, and gradually closed his eyes as he ate, and fell asleep with half a piece of beef jerky in his mouth.

He gathered early yesterday morning and rushed to Los Angeles, worked at high intensity for 15 hours in a row, and stood on the post for another hour.

And this picture was also captured by the photographer.

When people across the United States saw the soldier asleep leaning against a tree trunk with half a piece of beef jerky in his mouth in his mouth through television and newspapers, many people were moved.

The status of military personnel in the United States is very high, except for the special period in the late Vietnam War, military personnel in the United States have always been the most popular profession and the most respected people in the United States. Even if it is Hollywood, the black president and the black government, but the political correctness of the military is the default of everyone, and it has always been implemented.

And when someone in the community enlists in the army, the whole community will put up lights to express their gratitude, and the street lamps are not hung with advertisements from a certain company, but with the names, military branches, and photos of the community members who have joined the army.

So the Invalids are not a rule in the United States, but a tradition.

Now the public sees a group of soldiers rushing all the way to California to put out the fire, tired and sleepy and sleeping on the ground, such a picture naturally moves many people, and many school-age young people see the powerful steel torrent and dedication of the army, and they all want to join the army.

The U.S. military spends a lot of money every year to cooperate with Hollywood, just to create the image of soldiers and increase the enlistment rate. Especially in places like New York and Los Angeles, the National Guard participates in urban policing work, and law and order is much better, and the people in these places have more respect for the military.