[LasVegasMac]

Not a good start for the Stryker Brigade.

Damned unfortunate, but this would have happened to any vehicle happening along at that time.

They were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

May God Bless them and provide comfort to their families.

Moment of silence, please, for fallen heros......

LVM

[archy]

Not a good start for the Stryker Brigade.

Damned unfortunate, but this would have happened to any vehicle happening along at that time.

Any vehicle might have collapsed a bank, but not all would have rolled over. And we don't yet know whether those who died were crewmen partially outside hatches, or those inside kiled when gear stored inside shifted- or even drownings. We know that two vehicles were involved and both went over, and that three died, maybe in the same vehicle, maybe some of each. And others were undoubtedly seriously injured as well.

Not exactly a roaring startoff for the Stryker, though that wasn't expected by many here. But not yet a cause for condemnation, either.

[lobo59]

Thanks for all the posts on the strykers. We just found out this morning that my wife's grandson was one of the three killed in the accident. Till I read this we had thought that it was a bridge collapse that put them in the canal.

Anyway it doesn't change my attitude about the dummycrats obstructionist tactics and giving aid and comfort to enemy combatants. When I was in the army we expected to see combat and not to be sent into a war zone to play peace corps. Me thinks that our soldiers are diverted away from doing real recon and preparation to repel attacks by being expected to rebuild a corrupt enemy nation.