To: jriemer
I'm wondering why mounting a machine gun on a humvee is considered "news" It's a 50-cal, Jim. It'll outgun anything an urban guerilla is likely to sport, it'll knock down a cinderblock wall. I think taking potshots at US troops is going to become a whole lot less fun.
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
And they are rapidly finding that there are fewer and fewer volunteers to go shoot at the Americans.
7 posted on
08/04/2003 7:40:31 AM PDT by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
All that is true, but it is also standard equipment. For example, light scouts (battalion and brigade level) and 2ACR all have hummvees with .50 cals, automatic grenade launchers and in the case of the 2ACR, TOW IIb anti-tank missiles. This is not new...maybe more people have the equipment, but it has been around for quite a while.
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
I'd rather have a .50 and a .30. Shoot, a gatling gun would be cool.
14 posted on
08/04/2003 7:50:36 AM PDT by
AppyPappy
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