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Army rushing more armored Humvees to Iraq
NJ.COM ^

Posted on 04/25/2004 11:49:42 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Edited on 07/06/2004 6:39:39 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

NAJAF, Iraq (AP)

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: armor; humvee; sbct; stryker; treadheads; uparmoredhumvee; wheeledarmor; wheelies
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To: Darksheare
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.

141 posted on 04/29/2004 7:06:25 AM PDT by archy (The darkness will come. It will find you,and it will scare you like you've never been scared before.)
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To: 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.
142 posted on 04/29/2004 8:50:28 AM PDT by Darksheare (Fortune for the day: I come from a nowhere, I go to a noplace, and here I am!)
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To: Cannoneer No. 4; archy
"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.
143 posted on 04/29/2004 9:29:07 AM PDT by Darksheare (Fortune for the day: I come from a nowhere, I go to a noplace, and here I am!)
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To: Eagle Eye; Steel Wolf; Criminal Number 18F
What do you think of this?</a?
144 posted on 04/29/2004 1:08:54 PM PDT by Cannoneer No. 4 (I've lost turret power; I have my nods and my .50. Hooah. I will stay until relieved. White 2 out.)
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To: archy; Darksheare
Triple Canopy Convoy Security
145 posted on 04/29/2004 3:13:22 PM PDT by Cannoneer No. 4 (I've lost turret power; I have my nods and my .50. Hooah. I will stay until relieved. White 2 out.)
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To: archy; Darksheare

Private enterprise MP Co

146 posted on 04/29/2004 7:34:45 PM PDT by Cannoneer No. 4 (I've lost turret power; I have my nods and my .50. Hooah. I will stay until relieved. White 2 out.)
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To: 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.

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.

147 posted on 04/29/2004 8:10:53 PM PDT by archy (The darkness will come. It will find you,and it will scare you like you've never been scared before.)
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To: Cannoneer No. 4
Private enterprise MP Co

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

148 posted on 04/29/2004 8:15:37 PM PDT by archy (The darkness will come. It will find you,and it will scare you like you've never been scared before.)
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To: DMZFrank
See Post 78 above. Want on?
149 posted on 04/29/2004 8:38:26 PM PDT by Cannoneer No. 4 (I've lost turret power; I have my nods and my .50. Hooah. I will stay until relieved. White 2 out.)
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To: Cannoneer No. 4
Yep. Sign me up. Thanks.
150 posted on 04/29/2004 8:53:01 PM PDT by DMZFrank
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To: archy; Darksheare
DMZFrank, new Treadhead
151 posted on 04/29/2004 9:08:43 PM PDT by Cannoneer No. 4 (I've lost turret power; I have my nods and my .50. Hooah. I will stay until relieved. White 2 out.)
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To: Cannoneer No. 4
DMZFrank, new Treadhead

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

152 posted on 04/29/2004 9:14:27 PM PDT by archy (The darkness will come. It will find you,and it will scare you like you've never been scared before.)
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To: Sub-Driver
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)

153 posted on 04/30/2004 1:43:37 AM PDT by archy (The darkness will come. It will find you,and it will scare you like you've never been scared before.)
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To: Eagle Eye
ping
154 posted on 05/25/2004 4:34:16 PM PDT by Cannoneer No. 4 (I've lost turret power; I have my nods and my .50. Hooah. I will stay until relieved. White 2 out.)
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