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"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.