Bob Mares Photography's Blog – May 2010 Archive (5)

Day 136

1345 hrs

Our reconnaissance patrols have noticed more and more refugees are walking down the rural roads in groups, looking like a wild herd of game in Africa, the term safety in numbers never applied more than now. A lone military Humvee with a .50 cal M2 in the turret, fired a good 30 - 40 rounds with a 5/1 mix of tracer rounds as it sped through the abandon cars while going down the road. Refugees hit the ground as the 700 gr tracers were hitting a…

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Day 132





0700 hrs





The Spanish Conquistadors first intoduced the horse to New Mexico during the 1500's, now we use several horses we have found running free on some of the ranches we have occupied for reconnaissance patrols. Some girls from the pageant are expert horse riders, and are training others to ride. Our horses can carry lots of supplies and now our patrols are going farther and farther out. We have used dirt bikes and ATV's in the past but they tend to… Continue

Day 113

1345 hrs

Our patrols have found lots of different compound bows among the many abandon trucks and cars on the road and in some abandon trailers in the past several weeks, So we now have hundreds of arrows both broadheads and practice point and have put them to good use after hours and hours of training. Our patrols have used them to take out individual infected at close range without drawing attention to themselves and wasting a 9mm round from our HK…

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Day 105

1700 hrs

A night patrol found about 40-50 infected people in a deep depression which is a low point or hole in the ground, surrounded on all sides by higher ground, it was about 50 yards in diameter, and was about 2 miles from our current base camp, so a little to close for comfort. Kinda like how water settles to the bottom of a bowl they just lingered down there and didn't see to care about getting out. Maybe they followed something living in there…

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Day 93

0300 hrs

During the patrol the most important member of the patrol is the point man or in Task Force Amazon's case point girl. They must keep their wits and composure when walking at the front of a patrol as they maybe the first one fired upon if spotted by a sniper or group of marauding armed raiders or attacked by an infected. Most military ambushes conducted by trained forces allow the pointman to clear a kill zone and then open up on…

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