Well today I was teaching my first class of new officers radar operation. At around 1100 we went out on a main road on our base. We had two radars for six officers. While I was explaining radar related info to them I heard what appeared to vehicle fast approaching. I observed the vehicle traveling at an extremely high rate of speed for this road way that is 35MPH. This is the fastest speed limit we have on our base. I est. the vehicle to be going 60 and verified the speed with my radar. The radar displayed 56.
My fastest catch since I got 1 going 50 a few months ago. The problem was I was in a training uniform and radioless. SOB. I phoned the front gate phone but remembered that my phone is special and somehow doesn't get through to the front gate. This would have been my first CVC 22349 cite. Well I wouldn't have wrote the cite but I would have been the radar operator for the citation. The morale of the story, TAKE YOUR WEAPON AND RADIO WITH YOU WHENEVER YOU LEAVE THE STATION. That will be the last time I leave the station without a radio or duty weapon.
Extra: About a year ago I had the same thing, I saw a motorcycle traveling at a high rate of speed but we didn't have radar units in our patrol vehicles. I had to go about 65 to catch up to him and didn't gain any distance until I was at 55.

Extra: About a year ago I had the same thing, I saw a motorcycle traveling at a high rate of speed but we didn't have radar units in our patrol vehicles. I had to go about 65 to catch up to him and didn't gain any distance until I was at 55.
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