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Yokota Kanto Lodge - 2017 Performance Award (Day 3): Second year on tour is new for BIGFOOT driver Larry Swim

CAMP FUJI, Japan - Summit Racing BIGFOOT 4×4® Monster Truck driver Larry Swim is enjoying his second career. Last year, the tour visited military facilities in the Middle East and Kuwait. This year, it's the Tour of Champions, with Summit Racing NHRA Pro Stock drivers Greg Anderson and Jason Line, Harley-Davidson Vance & Hines NHRA Pro Stock motorcycle riders Eddie Krawiec and Andrew Hines, and drivers BIGFOOT Swimming and Teammate. Dan Runte travels around the US troops stationed in various parts of Japan.

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The third day of the 2017 mission took the group to Camp Fuji, a US Marine Corps installation located at the base of Mount Fuji. Swim shares his experience after a meet and greet at the Roadhouse Club, where service members can gather to eat, shoot darts or pool, or watch television.

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“This trip is different. Last year we were in the desert. This year we have Mount Fuji in the background. The landscape and culture are very different, but one thing is how we treat our servants. They are wonderful as they are in Kuwait and everyone is so welcoming and grateful to be here. In fact, it always makes me happy that they thank us when it is a privilege to be here. What we do because of them. There are families here with many people staying at these bases, so we had a chance to chat with some of the kids before we went to Fuji Camp. It's always good because some kids are noisy. We don't have a truck here, but they don't care - they just see the pictures on the posters that we have for them and the light. It is good to be here for families and soldiers because they also make sacrifices. Today we met some people from the EOD [Explosive Ordnance Disposal] company and they showed us their really cool robots and bomb suits. These kids don't have families here and are thousands of miles from home, but they want to do their job. They say that they have become like a family here. When they're not working, they hang out and spend time together, and I'm sure you'd be crazy without them. You have to have that interaction, even where they don't have family. For EOD people, I think it's really important to keep in touch with the people you work with. You know you can trust them and they have your back and they can do their job. One thing I have noticed over the last couple of trips is that there are many different aspects of the military and each job is different, but they all need each other. It's very similar to our racing teams - crew members work on everything from painters, welders and fishermen to drivers. We won't be a winning team if everyone doesn't do their part, and it's the same in the Army. When we were in EOD, the people who were going to do Operation Gratitude with me would not put me in a bomb suit. They've done it before, so I said, 'Maybe I'll never get a chance again, why?' The fun thing about the bomb suit is that before you go into EOD, you put on this 110-pound suit and lift an 80. -pound bomb shell and go with it. you have to. You can barely move in the clothes. Your arm is tied straight up like Ralphie in A Christmas Story, and you are very hot I just said was there for a few minutes. and I'm hot, After they've been holding this thing for too long, some kids said that they lost their hearts, they called it a "stupid suit bomb" I can see where it's going, what those people are doing , they are going. out to drop a bomb, know it can kill you, have to be on their game wearing this outfit, they let me try it, I'm glad they let me see it, they showed me. The memorial wall before we go, These people know what they are doing, but you look at that wall and When you see the pictures of 50 people who lost their lives in this work, it really affects you. They have a nice display honoring men who have taken their own lives and it really makes you think. Gunner Sgt. Hill explained we were there and knew many of the last people whose pictures were on the wall. Know that it is a dangerous job for yourself, but losing so many friends must be hard. Although it is hard work, you can see that these people are still passionate about what they are doing. They are highly educated and must go through very hard schooling to be able to do this job. To see this community, to see how they live and what they do, you really appreciate what our military does for us. He changed his appearance.

Larry Swim, Andrew Hines and Eddie Krawiec took the flags before a practice session at the Sacred Roadhouse Club.

Summit Racing BIGFOOT driver Larry Swim was invited to test at 110 lbs. A bomb suit when visiting an explosive ordnance disposal unit.

Many thanks to the Camp Fuji staff. There was a lot of busy work when we visited, but the staff did their best to help the soldiers and ensure God's presence.

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Operational Intelligence (Day 6): Eddie Krawiec reflects on the journey of combat operations, meeting with US troops in Japan for the holidays (Day 5): BIGFOOT® pilot Dan Runte shares his experiences as he travels -journey to high altitudes (Day). 4): Greg Anderson went back to school and flew the F-18 (tail)!