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To: wtc911
Mail runners targeted in Iraq

Force protection is now provided by Army transportation units driving gun trucks—5-ton trucks modified with M-60 machine-gun mounts—with a truck in the front, middle and rear of each convoy. Each truck has a driver, assistant driver and a gunner who must stand in the back of each truck on the lookout for trouble.

45 posted on 12/02/2003 2:59:34 PM PST by Cannoneer No. 4 (The Republican Party's priority is national security. The DemocRATic Party's priority is power)
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For truck drivers, convoy route is the front line
46 posted on 12/02/2003 3:23:53 PM PST by Cannoneer No. 4 (Old soldiers never die. They just go to the commissary parking lot and regroup.)
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