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Armor on Iraq Humvees Is Linked to Deadly Rollovers
The Washington Post ^
| June 12, 2006
Posted on 06/13/2006 9:31:58 AM PDT by Cannoneer No. 4
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Does anybody remember all the wailing and gnashing of teeth two years ago that our brave soldiers didn't have armored vehicles and it was all Bush's fault?
Are you wailers and teeth-gnashers happy now?
To: Cannoneer No. 4
The law of unintended consequences strikes again.
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posted on
06/13/2006 9:36:03 AM PDT
by
Jotmo
("Voon", said the mattress.)
To: Cannoneer No. 4
Looked at objectively, this info highlights the need for a replacement vehicle for the Humvee. The Humvee was never intended to be anything more than a bigger, more versatile jeep. If urban warfare is the trend of the future then the Army needs something better.
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posted on
06/13/2006 9:36:20 AM PDT
by
saganite
(Billions and billions and billions-------and that's just the NASA budget!)
To: saganite
"Looked at objectively, this info highlights the need for a replacement vehicle for the Humvee."
No. Looked at "objectively," this information highlights the stupidity of liberals, the press, and various nitwits who thought it was a good idea to begin with.
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posted on
06/13/2006 9:38:42 AM PDT
by
Reactionary
(The Barking of the Native Moonbat is the Sound of Moral Nitwittery)
To: saganite
EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle would fit the bill.
To: Cannoneer No. 4
An analysis of the Army's ground-accident database, which includes records from March 2003 through November 2005, found that 60 of the 85 soldiers who died in Humvee accidents in Iraq -- or about 70 percent -- were This article beautifully illustrates the difference between fraud and creative fraud.
First of all the article doesn not state what percentage of those rollovers were in vehicles that had actually been upgraded with additional armor.
Since the upgrading took longer than many wished, it is unlikely that many upgraded vehicles actually were involved in 2003 and most of 2004...
An article with an agenta, obviously...
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posted on
06/13/2006 9:40:31 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
To: King Moonracer
I prefer the car from "Spy Hunter" myself.
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posted on
06/13/2006 9:41:54 AM PDT
by
Extremely Extreme Extremist
(Conservatism is moderate, it is the center, it is the middle of the road)
To: Reactionary
It was a good idea to begin with and if you recall the Army had already uparmored some of it's Humvees prior to the outcry from the press.
Don't credit the loonies with the idea that more armor on the Humvee would give more protection to the troops. They can only take credit for blaming the Army that it was deliberately killing it's soldiers because they didn't instantly and magically uparmor every Humvee.
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posted on
06/13/2006 9:43:31 AM PDT
by
saganite
(Billions and billions and billions-------and that's just the NASA budget!)
To: Cannoneer No. 4
The laws of physics are unimpressed with politics.
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posted on
06/13/2006 9:46:59 AM PDT
by
facedown
(Armed in the Heartland)
To: Publius6961
An article with an agenta, obviously...Agenta.....a purplish-red agenda?
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posted on
06/13/2006 9:48:51 AM PDT
by
Onelifetogive
(Freerepublic - The website where "Freepers" is not in the spell checker dictionary...)
To: Cannoneer No. 4
How long until the MSM Drive By media types begin demanding that these humvees not have so much armor on them?
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06/13/2006 9:50:31 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll. 17,401+ snide replies and counting!)
To: Publius6961
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06/13/2006 9:52:49 AM PDT
by
Cannoneer No. 4
( http://cannoneerno4.wordpress.com)
To: Cannoneer No. 4
To: theDentist
Sometime between now and November.
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posted on
06/13/2006 9:54:15 AM PDT
by
Cannoneer No. 4
( http://cannoneerno4.wordpress.com)
To: Cannoneer No. 4
"hatchet job" & "CBS" mentioned together is redundant...
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posted on
06/13/2006 9:58:14 AM PDT
by
talleyman
(Kerry & the Surrender-Donkey Treasoncrats - trashing the troops for 40 years.)
To: Cannoneer No. 4
Does anybody remember all the wailing and gnashing of teeth two years ago that our brave soldiers didn't have armored vehicles and it was all Bush's fault? Yes...and it wasn't just the media. Folks were going on the about the REMF and Pentagon "paper pushers" who wold allow donated armor plates to be added to vehicles immediately.
As I said then, adding armor changes the driving characteristics and gas mileage...a few extra gallons of gas in each HMMWV adds a huge fuel requirement to the AOR.
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posted on
06/13/2006 9:59:21 AM PDT
by
TankerKC
(¿José puede usted ver?)
To: Cannoneer No. 4
carbon bucky balls/tubes could solve this, I think
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posted on
06/13/2006 10:00:26 AM PDT
by
marvlus
To: Cannoneer No. 4
Just tweek the kick azz suspension,problem solved...if there really is one.
To: saganite
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posted on
06/13/2006 10:01:08 AM PDT
by
Cannoneer No. 4
( http://cannoneerno4.wordpress.com)
To: Cannoneer No. 4
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06/13/2006 10:06:58 AM PDT
by
saganite
(Billions and billions and billions-------and that's just the NASA budget!)
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