To: Cannoneer No. 4
Thanx for the PING, Gunner.
We in the Guard are paying attention to the goings-on with the Stryker BDE. We are getting a lot of the up-armored Hummer's, which is a step up from nothing; but Stryker is the next step up from that.
News we get is encouraging.
5 posted on
01/11/2004 7:52:35 AM PST by
Old Sarge
(149th Armd' Bde, KyARNG: Bosnia-bound. Remember Them.)
To: Old Sarge
btt
6 posted on
01/11/2004 8:08:56 AM PST by
Sacajaweau
(God Bless Our Troops!!)
To: Old Sarge
56th BDE of the PAARNG is getting Strykers.
8 posted on
01/11/2004 8:31:20 AM PST by
Cannoneer No. 4
(The road to Glory cannot be followed with too much baggage.)
To: Old Sarge
The biggest thing to remember about the Stryker is exactly what you have said. It is better to be riding in one of these, than to be riding in a HMMWV. There have been two Strykers struck by IEDs, and no fatalities. At least one of the blasts would have destroyed a HMMWV. In that respect, the vehicle has been a success.
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