It then struck me that we were somewhere we weren't meant to be. The man was clearly taken aback and I caught him looking at his mates standing on the other side of the car. "Why were there armed guards outside a museum?" I wondered. As I rolled down the window, I nonchalantly gave him my Connecticut state issued Driver License, mimicking what the driver ahead of me had done in order to get permitted within. As our turn came, the armed commando signaled with his free arm to stop our car as his other arm nestled an assault rifle. The banal feminine voice announced "You've arrived at your destination" just as I saw armed commandos examining something that the driver in the car ahead of us had handed out with his outstretched arm. It had told me to turn right at a point when there was a gate up ahead as the only other alternative and that's what I'd done - I turned right. When setting out from home, I had keyed in the Submarine Museum's address on the Garmin navigation device in the car and the device had almost brought us 50 miles faithfully to the destination the operative word being "almost". I wasn't a religious extremist seeking to attack their naval base as he probably suspected. I was the one at the wheel of the Hyundai, unfortunately. The Mystic river flowed nearby ominously and the sea gulls were pretty raucous. The commandos had been examining the IDs of naval staff as they entered past the tactically placed boulders at the entrance to the Naval Submarine Base in New London, Groton, Connecticut. The car was fully laden with 5 brown guys in puffy winter coats, gawking at the armed men as a line of cars waited to enter behind the Hyundai Verna with rental plates on it. It was 33 degrees Fahrenheit and the skies were overcast. He was confused.Īnd the Hyundai sat there inexorably, emitting visible tailpipe steam in the cold March 2016 afternoon. He tightened the grip on his automatic assault rifle and his eyelids narrowed as he looked askance at his fellow servicemen. It looked as if the naval commando's training scenario was coming true.
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