[esoxmagnum]

Curious though, why we see so many Humvee's in 2nd line positions and garrison duty.

I thought the Humvee was the replacement for the jeep.

Also, I would have thought going into this war that the Bradley Fighting Vehicle would have been the choice for urban warfare.

Not making a stink, just curious why this is not so. I know there are alot of military minds on FR that could probably enlighten me some.

I'm guessing its due to how the dems slashed military budgets the 8 years prior.

Any input from you military guys?

[mark502inf]

After the Iraqi military was defeated in the initial attack, the idea was that our occupation troops would patrol in a much less dangerous environment. Accordingly, follow-on units came with 1/3 of their armor and used thin-skined wheeled vehicles(mostly HMMWVs) for the rest of their units. The situation has changed and we've worked to up-armor the wheels already over there and now, the next two rotational units--3d Inf Div and 3d Armored Cav Regt--are coming with 100% of their armored vehicles; mostly tanks & Bradleys, but some M113s as well.