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Brian Hill
Fort Leonard Wood
The seat inside the cab of the excavator needs a lot of adjusting so the 4-foot, 11-inch Spc. Zainab Olivo can comfortably operate the equipment. She manipulates a few switches and levers, the diesel engine roars and rumbles, and the boom comes to life. It’s quite a juxtaposition, seeing such a small person operate such a large piece of equipment.
She turns the excavator off and removes her oversized, tinted eye protection. She has a youthful face, and with her small stature, it’s difficult to imagine what she’s experienced.
As a horizontal construction engineer trainee assigned to Company D, 554th Engineer Battalion, 32-year-old Olivo from Karbala, Iraq currently spends many of her days at Training Area 244 on Fort Leonard Wood. The large, tracked, earthmoving vehicle she’s learning about this week is just one of several pieces of heavy equipment she has progressed through over the past couple of months.
Connection to Fredericksburg region: I have lived and worked in Fredericksburg since February 2011, after frequently visiting a local friend before moving here.
I was inspired to write a book because: I have been interested in religion and spirituality my whole life. I began teaching Bible School at 15. As my life has progressed, the view I have of our common Creator has widened and deepened, expanding beyond all religions to see the common threads that create the fabric of our beliefs. My first book, âDivine Warrior Training,â provides a framework for individuals to live a balanced and purposeful life. This second book, âConsciousness Rising,â provides a vision for the future in which we all awake to reconnect with each other and the consciousness that created the seen world.