[Uncle Jaque]

I wonder how long it's been since the fat, arrogant, desk-jocky stuffed-shirt martini-sucking beauraucrat who "forbids" this sort of field innovation has ventured into a Combat Zone?

These jerks who put their sacred "rules" and "SOPs" before the lives of our brave young men and women putting their lives on the line in a faraway, hostile environment just rub me contrary to the natural lie of my fur!

I wish someone would yank their corpulent, haughty, pansy lard tushies out from behind that nice comfy desk in that cozy air-conditioned office and plop it down spat in a Humvee having to make that run from Baghdad to Tikrit every day!

A lot of those candy-arsed two-bit tin-horn brass-plated dictators are long overdue for a reality familiarzation course, PRONTO, IMHO.

Back in Vietnam they used to pack hot asphalt between the door panels of the trucks and between plywood panels on the floors, let it solidify, and lower the seats like a "low-rider" hot-rod car. And I don't think they asked any washington beauraucrat's bloody permsission to do it, either!

Where are the Gun-Trucks in these convoys, anyway?
Anyone remember those? Another example of American GI innovation - and I don't think they had to bribe any fat cat in Washington for permission to rig those up, by the way.

Somebody in that Pentagon had best wake the heck up!

[caltrop]

I don't know what they're doing for gun trucks but it's a great point. I can't imagine they aren't using them and gun trucks have to be put together in the field. That assumes, as I think it's safe to do, that they don't have enough armored cars to accompany all the convoys.

In Vietnam a gun truck, for those who aren't familiar with them, was usually a five ton truck with heavy steel plate on the doors protecting the driver and assistant driver. On the sides, front and rear of the truck bed they installed heavy steel plate high enough to permit the troops to stand upright and be protected. Machine guns were mounted to permit the gunners to bring fire on any attackers foolish enough to take a crack at us. We didn't have any but I've heard some units mounted miniguns instead of machine guns.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

253rd Trans Co gun truck, Balad, Iraq

Jersey truck unit arms 5-tons for Iraq missions

[Cannoneer No. 4]

The last gun truck in the mail convoy follows the bobtail tow truck out the gates of the Baghdad military mail terminal.