{"id":2996,"date":"2016-03-21T22:36:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T19:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/?p=2996"},"modified":"2016-03-26T19:15:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T16:15:01","slug":"missed-a-thought-on-the-last-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/?p=2996","title":{"rendered":"Missed a Thought on the Last Post &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>T<\/strong>alking about the armored vehicles&#8230; I forgot to mention an interesting experience with one of those.\u00a0 Our vehicles have diplomatic license plates to make us look and feel special.\u00a0 They are either CD plates (Corps Diplomatic) or CM plates (Corps Maintenance).\u00a0 All the Embassy vehicles have the CD plates, whereas those of us lower in the chain have CM.<\/p>\n<p>So, the armored vehicles are CD plates.\u00a0 But when these vehicles enter an area where the bad guys are thought to be, they do not want to advertise with the CD plates.\u00a0 So, the Embassy or Consulate will exchange the plates with a regular automobile license plate to hide the fact it is a diplomatic vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>One of the drivers told me a story about being stopped by the <em>Trafic Policia.\u00a0 <\/em>The trooper approached the vehicle and the driver opened the 300 lb door and presented his drivers license and the vehicle&#8217;s registration.\u00a0 The officer walked around to the back side of the vehicle and noticed the license plate did not match.\u00a0 He radioed in and then told the driver, this license plate says it is a 1987 Lada (cheap Russian car).\u00a0 The driver says, &#8220;Yeah.\u00a0 We swapped it out.&#8221;\u00a0 Then he reached in the back of the vehicle and handed the officer the original CD plates.<\/p>\n<p>The Officer looked a little stunned, then asked, &#8220;Are you allowed to do that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The driver said, &#8220;Yeah!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well &#8230;.\u00a0 okay then.&#8221;\u00a0 He handed the CD plates back, shook his head, got back in his car and drove off.\u00a0 That was it.<\/p>\n<p>Gotta love countries like this!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talking about the armored vehicles&#8230; I forgot to mention an interesting experience with one of those.\u00a0 Our vehicles have diplomatic &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/?p=2996\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2tztR-Mk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2996"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3036,"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions\/3036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}