To answer your questions:
Yes.
Yes.
No.
To date, Stryker have taken hits from IEDs and RPGs that would have disabled or destroyed an APC. One Stryker has been lost to RPG fire with no loss of life.
Have you seen this story on Jake? It claims he got a Purple Heart in Strykers a month and a half ago and got killed a few ago in a Stryker!
That's a pretty bad rap on the Strykers that have had no deaths...I left the URL for you...
'I Didn't Lose A Friend, I Lost A Brother'
April 29, 2004
By Kevin Reece
Video : KOMO 4 NEWS
Jake Herring, who joined the Army in 2001 with teammates from his Lake Washington High School football team, was killed Tuesday in a grenade attack near Mosul, Iraq.
http://www.komotv.com/news/story.asp?ID=31000 KIRKLAND - "We just felt that it was something that needed to be done. We wanted to serve our country. Just do whatever we could to help out."
That's how a close friend of 21-year-old Jake Herring described their joint decision to join the Army back in 2001 long before the attacks of September 11th. They were among several members of the Lake Washington High School football team that year who made the same decision when they graduated.
Jake Herring died April 27th in a grenade attack near Mosul, Iraq.
"He didn't want any attention. He was a soldier. He was there to do his job and he was gonna stay until his job was done," said friend and fellow soldier Dan Gillison. Gillison was a paratrooper who landed in Northern Iraq. He was also the quarterback at Lake Washington High in 2001. Herring was the starting center.
Herring became a member of the Stryker Brigade from Ft. Lewis. According to his friends he was wounded in a roadside attack just a month and a half ago and received the Purple Heart. He returned to duty and was on patrol west of Mosul when he was attacked. Three other soldiers were wounded and survived.