[roaddog727]

"The ABC News report included video taken by contractor driver Preston Wheeler of Mena, Ark., that showed an Army gun truck driving away..."

OK. I've been in the Army a long time. I have never heard the term "gun truck" before. WTF is a gun truck? Could it be a hard-top, up-armored HUMMER? If so, that would be an escort vehicle.

The "press/journalists" who write this crap are F'n IDIOTS.

[Doogle]

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[MediaMole]

Gun truck info...

http://www.llnl.gov/pao/news/news_releases/2005/NR-05-07-07.html

In Vietnam, some gun trucks were made by mounting an M113 chassis on the back of a heavy truck.

[pawdoggie]

OK. I've been in the Army a long time. I have never heard the term "gun truck" before. WTF is a gun truck? Could it be a hard-top, up-armored HUMMER? If so, that would be an escort vehicle.

lol...You haven't been in that long, new guy. "Gun truck" is a term out of the Vietnam War. A gun truck was usually a deuce and a half with "add-on" perforated steel plates, sand bages and machine gun mounts. I don't know if this reporter is that old, or has watched too many "Platoon" type films.

[Arpege92]

Well said roaddog727!!!

[91B]

We used the term "gun truck" on convoys in Iraq to distinguish between those vehicles that had a crew served weapon mounted (such as the Hummers seen in the video) and those that did not (ambulances, some of the new LMTVs, or other Hummers without mounted weapons such as EOD or the USAF close air guys).