"Pretty shitty behavior if you ask me."
Posted on 08/21/2008 5:19:50 PM PDT by SandRat
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21, 2008 – A group of American Humvees seized by Russian forces in Georgia this week should be returned immediately, a Defense Department official said today.
“We’ve certainly expressed our position over the fact that these Humvees are U.S. property and should be returned. It’s that simple,” Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said.
In the Georgian port town of Poti on Aug. 19, Russian forces, which entered Georgia Aug. 8, reportedly commandeered American Humvees that were awaiting shipment back to the United States after taking part in earlier U.S.-Georgian military exercises.
“We don’t have any assurance at this point that they’re prepared to do the right thing and return them,” Whitman said of Russia’s forces. He declined to specify the exact number of American vehicles in Russia’s possession, calling it “a handful.”
In Georgia meanwhile, Russian forces remain in the former Soviet republic in defiance of pledges by Moscow to draw down troops this week.
“There has not been much evidence of any significant Russian withdrawals,” Whitman said, adding that only “minimal movements” have occurred to date.
As NATO and international community members ratchet up pressure on Russia to remove its forces, the United States has continued providing humanitarian aid to war-torn Georgia.
The U.S. military has commenced its maritime humanitarian assistance operation, Whitman said. Two Navy vessels and a Coast Guard cutter could begin providing relief supplies and equipment in several days, he added.
The U.S. government has spent $10.7 million in humanitarian assistance to date, $4.7 million of which has consisted of Defense Department-led airlifts and emergency supplies, Whitman said.
U.S. military C-130 Hercules aircraft continue delivering twice-daily shipments, along with a shipment a day by a C-17 Globemaster III transport jet. Georgia has received 320 tons of humanitarian aid in the deliveries.
The North Koreans have still got the USS Pueblo, which they took 40 years later.
Don’t hold your breath.
Fat Chance.
china gave us back that airplane after we tore it apart bolt by bolt.
The US should be exacting the cost from the russian thieves in georgia right now.
One armored vehicle for each Humvee. If we could.
Yeah right. Just take a bunch of theirs. Maybe 3 for 1.
Let the Ruskies keep ‘em.
They’ll go broke buying fuel and tires.
During World War II, the Russians kept some American B-29’s that had emergency landed in Russia. Saved them a lot of time and money in R & D. Thieving communists. Nothing new.
In a few years will see the Humveeski.
Russian will always be Russians and don't expect the Hummers back in any kind of decent condition if at all!
The funny thing about those knock offs B29’s even the faults were copied.
“...The North Koreans have still got the USS Pueblo, which they took 40 years later...”
Yes they do and they turned it into a museum.
http://www.mishalov.com/pueblo.html
The Chinese still have our EP-3 they rammed and forced to land in the 2001.
Right. FDR did nothing.
I was stupid to ever support them in Kosovo. Screw ‘em. Russians that is. Eternal predators. Wolves
As long as they give them back to suburban moms where they belong!
"Pretty shitty behavior if you ask me."
Makes for an interesting game - look at the Russian airplane, decide what American airplane it was copied from.
Correctomundo, pilgrim... 
FDR was dead and buried better than two years when the Tupolev Tu-4 first flew on 19 May 1947.
U.S. Army Humvee in Serb Museum.
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