[ExSoldier]

The "LOG" side wasn't mentioned, although it makes perfect sense. Maybe since he knew I used to be a Log puke myself at the G-Staff level, he figured I already knew.... It was the fact that a Humvee is recognizable as purely AMERICAN and therefore becomes an "RPG" magnet, whereas a Land Rover or Cruiser might be a wandering sheik.

It was just the way he told it, with a bunch of SOF guys all loaded up fer bear hauling A$$ across the sands in this luxury vehicle, AC and stereo blasting.....well it made a funny mental image.

[archy]

It was just the way he told it, with a bunch of SOF guys all loaded up fer bear hauling A$$ across the sands in this luxury vehicle, AC and stereo blasting.....well it made a funny mental image.

Most of the Range Rover and Discovery vehicles used by the Brits are painted not camo, but UN IFOR white for pretty much the same reason; at night, at least, they can slip by and pass for civvie vehicles, unlikely for a HUMVEE or a Land Rover Wolf with the MGs fitted.

But the troopies of the 14th Intel Coy, inheritors of the traditions and honours of the British Eighth Army's jeep-mounted *Popski's Private Army* as well as a few of the techniques get along in their *civvy-street* vehicles quite nicely, including motorbikes. It's also rumored that they also have a couple of Rolls-Royces at their disposal.