Army rushing more armored Humvees to Iraq

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[Sub-Driver]

NAJAF, Iraq (AP)

[archy]

Those might come in handy.
"Hey, there's a jihadi hiding behind that truck over there!"
"Oh? Not for long."
*sound of ack-ack slamming vehicle apart*
"No more jihadi. Where's the next one hiding at?"

A quad 40mm ought to do nicely, as well. But I'm antsy about anything of the sort around fuel tankers.

[Darksheare]

True.
Anything that pops the round into a spherical fraggo cloud close aboard is probably a bad idea.
Unless it can be used further out and then switch to secondary guns.
But that's a pain in the butt.
Hmmm.

[Darksheare]

"One thing that struck me was the shock that units showed when I arrived in my Humvee and we had radios. That is a sad state that these units that convoy (the LOG units) don't ALL have a radio."

Cripes!
THAT reminds me of doing advanced party for field artillery, and doing the security sweep of the area.
We were supposed to have the man portables so that we could say whether or not we found stuff, or not -whichever the case may be.
We never had the radios, ever.
We showed on paper that we had them, but we didn't really have any on hand.
I remember doing one training sweep in particular where my team found evidence that the place had been occupied just ten minutes prior to our arrival.
We had no way to call back with this information, which allowed a small medical team on the training OpFor side to sidle out of our way.
Our Captain's response was, "Oh well, it's YOUR fault." and that was that.
The OC's were pretty amused by the whole thing.
So amused that later on we were all declared dead for 24 hours.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

What do you think of this?</a?

[Cannoneer No. 4]

Triple Canopy Convoy Security

[Cannoneer No. 4]

Private enterprise MP Co

[archy]

True.
Anything that pops the round into a spherical fraggo cloud close aboard is probably a bad idea.
Unless it can be used further out and then switch to secondary guns.
But that's a pain in the butt. Hmmm.

Precisely the reason I thought a quad .50 mount with a pair of 7,62 miniguns up top and a pair of Mark 10 40mm grenade launchers below would be usable, with indirect fire from a couple of 60/81/82mm mortars a nice backup, though mortars may be a no-no...as may be Mark 19s. But we shall see.

One nice thing about working around a bunch of Diesel tankers, though: you don't have to carry external fuel cans.

[archy]

Private enterprise MP Co

Kuwait? Nice place for DS/GS activities, and maybe for R&R.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

See Post 78 above. Want on?

[DMZFrank]

Yep. Sign me up. Thanks.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

DMZFrank, new Treadhead

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DMZFrank, new Treadhead

Added, and welcome. Up! On the way...

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When the war began, only about 2 percent of Army's 110,000 Humvees were armored. Now, of the nearly 15,000 Humvees in Iraq, about 1,500 to 2,000 are armored, according to the Army. The numbers are increasing.

Tellit to the Marines:

Thu Apr 29,12:29 PM ET

U.S. Marines drive through Fallujah, Iraq.

(AP /John Moore

Thu Apr 29,12:07 PM ET

US soldiers leave their position in Fallujah. US troops prepared to draw back from the flashpoint Sunni city of Fallujah after a three-week bloody siege as attacks elsewhere killed 10 soldiers.

(AFP/Ramzi Haidar)

Thu Apr 29, 4:44 AM ET

US Marines prepare to leave Abuh Gharib Camp to patrol the outskirts of the restive city of Fallujah. US forces again conducted airstrikes against insurgents in Fallujah

(AFP/Antonio Scorza)

[Cannoneer No. 4]

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