Posted on 05/31/2007 12:01:52 PM PDT by SoldierDad
10th Mountain, 1st ACB destroy enemy urban assault vehicle
Thursday, 31 May 2007
Multi-National Corps – Iraq Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory APO AE 09342
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE RELEASE No. 20070531-02 May 31, 2007
10th Mountain, 1st ACB destroy enemy urban assault vehicle
2nd BCT, 10th Mountain PAO, Multi-National Division – Center PAO
CAMP STRIKER, IRAQ – A team of Apache attack helicopter pilots discovered and destroyed a heavily armed vehicle south of Radwaniyah at about 8:10 a.m., May 30.
The Apache team from the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade observed the vehicle near a reed line of a canal. The vehicle had a heavy machine gun mount attached to the bed of the truck and re-enforced sidewalls with gun ports.
After coordinating with the 2nd Brigade, 10th Mountain tactical operations center, an unmanned aerial vehicle equipped with a camera was flown over the truck to observe the area. Once confirming the target and ensuring there were no civilians in the immediate area, the brigade authorized the helicopters to engage the truck.
The Apaches fired two Hellfire missiles and destroyed the vehicle.
No civilians were injured.
More good news from the 10th Mountain Division ping!!!
“What happened to my f***ing truck?!?”
10th Mountain.
Taking out the bad guys. One day at a time!
Thanks for the ping.
LOL. Probably not the actual armored vehicle destroyed by our 10th Mountain ACB.
Al-Queda tank.
Any of you guys touch my stuff and I’ll kill you!
That was the first thing I thought of when I read this article.
ROFLOL. Now that’s tooo funny.
;^)
TWO?................how much do those things cost?.......
Kicking Butt and taking Names.
Isn’t “urban assault vehicle” lefty speak for SUV?
That was Abdulla’s Winnebego with the new sat dish you just took out...Urban Assault Vehicles don’t have shag carpet and lava lamps you idiots!!!
Consider it training. No telling what the scumbags had planned to use it for. If destroying it prevented any deaths or wounding of our forces, the price of two Hellfires was well worth it. .
AGM-114B/C Basic Hellfire * M120E1 low smoke motor. * AGM-114B has electronic SAD (Safe/Arming Device) for safe shipboard use. * Unit cost: $25,000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-114_Hellfire#Overview
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Hey, the price of a few hell fires @ 100k a pop is probably cheaper then shipping these fools to gitmo and housing them till they meet Alah.
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