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A firsthand account of roadside bombing Armor plating on military vehicle called a lifesaver
SFGate.com | December 20, 2005 | Tim Albone

Posted on 12/20/2005 10:30:17 PM PST by Cannoneer No. 4

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/12/20/MNGD8GAJNJ1.DTL


TOPICS: Canada; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: armor; ied; oif; uparmoredhumvee; wheeledarmor
The Canadians like their G-Wagons. I was talking to a Canadian Sergeant at the Wash Rack the other day and he claims G-Wagons are better than M1114's.
1 posted on 12/20/2005 10:30:20 PM PST by Cannoneer No. 4
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To: Cannoneer No. 4
A firsthand account of roadside bombing Armor plating on military vehicle called a lifesaver
2 posted on 12/20/2005 10:32:02 PM PST by Cannoneer No. 4 (Kandahar Airfield -- “We’re not on the edge of the world, but we can see it from here")
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To: Cannoneer No. 4

http://www.sfu.ca/casr/101-vehgwag.htm


3 posted on 12/20/2005 10:33:33 PM PST by injin (To retreat before victory would be an act of recklessness and dishonor, and I will not allow it." W)
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To: Cannoneer No. 4

Do the Liberals that are ruining Canada know that they have Canadian troops that are fighting terrorists?


4 posted on 12/20/2005 10:39:18 PM PST by bybybill (GOD help us if the Rats win)
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To: bybybill

In Afghanistan, of course... didn't you?


5 posted on 12/20/2005 10:44:43 PM PST by clilly54
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To: clilly54
In Afghanistan, of course... didn't you?

Yes we did, (And thanks to the brave canuks doing the work). We were just concerned the liberals in Canada would find out and put a stop to it.

6 posted on 12/20/2005 10:57:44 PM PST by adamsjas
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To: adamsjas

Ahh, like Pelosi, Dean & Kerry? You want to judge the Canadians because they have a few f**king idiots like we do that happened to blow or buy their way in to office?


7 posted on 12/20/2005 11:03:27 PM PST by clilly54
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To: clilly54

Ahh, forgot, how about Ed Kennedy? What the heck is that souse still doing in office? Wasn't that at least second-degree murder?

Canada is a free country, just as we are. We have no more right to tell them how they should think than they do to tell us our minds.

Look up "democracy"... it doesn't say "agrees with Americans"...

Something we best all get used too...


8 posted on 12/20/2005 11:14:11 PM PST by clilly54
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To: Cannoneer No. 4

Merry Xmas, Gun-guy!


9 posted on 12/20/2005 11:18:30 PM PST by Old Sarge (In a Hole in the Ground, there Lived a Fobbit...)
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To: clilly54

Ooops, Ted Kennedy... I really are an a 'merican redneck :)


10 posted on 12/20/2005 11:19:30 PM PST by clilly54
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To: clilly54

Hmmmmm... so they are free to disagree with us but we are not free to call them idiots when they do?


11 posted on 12/20/2005 11:20:53 PM PST by Carolina_Thor (It's always better to be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.)
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Do the Liberals that are ruining Canada know that they have Canadian troops that are fighting terrorists? Hmmmmm... so they are free to disagree with us but we are not free to call them idiots when they do? Are they not more free to have political idiots than we are? Pelosi alone trumps all the Canadian critics I've seen so far, and Boxer... why go there? They have their idiots, we have ours... we have more in common as a people with the Canadians than with any other in the world. Just because they have the same defective picker when it comes to their politicians is no reason to trash them. Canadians didn't elect Dean, for a start...
12 posted on 12/20/2005 11:30:30 PM PST by clilly54
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To: clilly54

crap, can't figure out how to edit the typos... you get the drift...

Quit blaming the Canadians because they have idiots in office.. so do we...

'Nuff said...


13 posted on 12/20/2005 11:33:46 PM PST by clilly54
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To: clilly54
I really are an a 'merican redneck :)

A confession was unnecessary. :-)

14 posted on 12/21/2005 1:26:23 AM PST by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government.)
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To: Old Sarge

Ho Ho Ho

How ya doin', Sarge?

Buddy of mine just found out he has a job at BIAP. Are you anywhere near there?


15 posted on 12/21/2005 5:43:52 AM PST by Cannoneer No. 4 (Kandahar Airfield -- “We’re not on the edge of the world, but we can see it from here")
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To: Clive; NorthOf45

ping


16 posted on 12/21/2005 5:46:45 AM PST by Cannoneer No. 4 (Kandahar Airfield -- “We’re not on the edge of the world, but we can see it from here")
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To: Cannoneer No. 4

Ramadi - nowhere in sight...


17 posted on 12/21/2005 5:51:40 AM PST by Old Sarge (In a Hole in the Ground, there Lived a Fobbit...)
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To: Cannoneer No. 4
Thanks for the ping. The G Wagons do look like a very good move. In the following shot, note how the cabin appears to be intact. Unfortuneately, they are not indestructable. However, they certainly improve the survivability of our soldiers.


18 posted on 12/21/2005 5:56:58 AM PST by NorthOf45
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To: clilly54
Wasn't that at least second-degree murder?

Making a plan to eliminate your pregnant girlfriend, then carrying out the plan is 1st degree.

In MA though I doubt even a conviction would have caused him to lose an election.

19 posted on 12/21/2005 6:03:41 AM PST by ASA Vet (Those who know don't talk, those who talk don't know.)
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To: injin
G-Wagon Saved Soldiers Lives
20 posted on 12/21/2005 6:21:11 AM PST by Cannoneer No. 4 (Kandahar Airfield -- “We’re not on the edge of the world, but we can see it from here")
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