[Justa]

The whining is uncalled for. They have 3 tons of armor they can add to their trucks which would still allow for 2 tons of cargo. That's enough 1/8" steel plating to protect them from SAF. An uparmored Humvee wouldn't have protected them from an RPG and would have been destroyed by the IEDs their truck was hit by -only with them inside of it. If they can't get steel plating they can grab any metal shipping container, cut it off at chest height or cut firing holes in it and mount it to the bed of the truck, with sandbags on the inside. Imo an armored 5-ton or HEMTT is safer than anything but a Stryker due to the height of the cargo beds above the ground. Many of the 5-tons I've seen on convoy security are armored as described above. Of course this article wouldn't have been complete (or wouldn't have been published) without the obligatory anti-military, anti-administration slant.

[Stone Mountain]

The whining is uncalled for. They have 3 tons of armor they can add to their trucks which would still allow for 2 tons of cargo. That's enough 1/8" steel plating to protect them from SAF. An uparmored Humvee wouldn't have protected them from an RPG and would have been destroyed by the IEDs their truck was hit by -only with them inside of it. If they can't get steel plating they can grab any metal shipping container, cut it off at chest height or cut firing holes in it and mount it to the bed of the truck, with sandbags on the inside. Imo an armored 5-ton or HEMTT is safer than anything but a Stryker due to the height of the cargo beds above the ground. Many of the 5-tons I've seen on convoy security are armored as described above. Of course this article wouldn't have been complete (or wouldn't have been published) without the obligatory anti-military, anti-administration slant.

So you're saying that they had the option of armoring their transport vehicle, but decided not to?