[Tailback]

One of the killed and one critically wounded guy were in my old Army Guard unit. They were friends of mine. I'm just numb, I've been talking about humvees being useless for combat duty for years and now this.

[Reagan is King]

I'm sorry to hear about the loss of your friends. The sad thing is they would probably be alive if they'd been in the M113A and from what I understand the Army has hundreds of them in mothballs. Why aren't they mandatory equipment in the danger zones?

Here's a quote from the website I linked to in my post:

Gary Motsek, the deputy director of support operations for US army materiel command, said: "I have roughly 700 113-series vehicles sitting pre-positioned in Kuwait, though some are in need of repairs. I have them available right now, if they want them."

They need to get them to the frontline troops NOW!