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To: Flavius
Guess the uparmored Humvees work pretty well.


In this photo released by the U.S. Army Wednesday, March 23, 2005, U.S. Army 503rd MP Battalion, 18th MP Brigade gunner SPC Casey Cooper stands next to a his damaged Humvee near Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites) recently, after it received a direct hit from a rocket-propelled grenade, knocking him unconscious. Cooper was revived and helped his fellow soldiers defeat an attack on a coalition supply convoy March 20, about 18 miles southeast of Baghdad, according to U.S. officials. (AP Photo/U.S. Army, Sgt. 1st Class Marshall P. Ware)

5 posted on 03/23/2005 6:32:51 PM PST by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: finnman69

Easy for me to say, but I wish he would have smiled for the camera.


7 posted on 03/23/2005 6:35:58 PM PST by The KG9 Kid (Semper Fi!)
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To: finnman69
I know it can you imagine, germans knew that in world war II glad we are catching up...
8 posted on 03/23/2005 6:36:56 PM PST by Flavius ("... we should reconnoitre assiduosly... " Vegetius)
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To: finnman69
Just damn.

It must have looked pretty good on paper - 40-50 ambushers versus a convoy. Abdul's gonna need him some new licks...

12 posted on 03/23/2005 6:42:54 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: finnman69

Looks like the RPG ject centered up on the gap between the top of the door and the roof. Pretty lucky, the spall would be substantialy reduced.


35 posted on 03/23/2005 8:57:50 PM PST by glorgau
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