[Vetvoice]

Since occupying the 101st command billet in Mosul the Stryker Brigade has been protecting their vehicles and not prosecuting the war. It's a shame that the Army is afraid to lose any of these combat vehicles. If they are that afraid of letting them leave the camp - why did they buy them?

[Fenris6]

Bring on the LAVs (hand-me downs from the Army to Marines).

Go Wolfpack!

[historian1944]

They are? And what data do you have that supports that statement?

[historian1944]

But damage and casualties have been light so far, Tallman said. He added at the time he was not aware of any RPG strikes on any Strykers.

He's not fully informed. There have been 2 attacks on Strykers with RPGs. Slight injuries on the first one (scratches to face on one of the guys nametag defilade in one of the hatches,) the second attack was on the side of one of the vehicles, I think it was a convoy that Wolfowitz was in.

But Miller said his organization had been told maintenance had been soaring for the Strykers. "We're being told vehicles are going through a tire per day, for example," he said.

So is he saying that they're going through 300 tires a day? (around 1 per vehicle?) The number is significantly less, somewhere under 5 tires a day for the whole fleet.

The Army isn't afraid to lose one, they already did lose an RV, to and IED that caught the tires and the whole vehicle on fire, with no loss of life. Occupants of a HMMWV would have been killed by the blast. They've put over 500000 miles fleetwide on Strykers thus far.

[Steel Wolf]

The Strykers rolling around Mosul look like they have a decent level of survivability, especially with the cages. In the event of an IED or RPG hit, I think I'd rather be in one of them than an unarmored Humvee. The few up-armored Humvees we have are pretty sturdy, but most of our Humvees are only 'halfway up' armored, with sandbags on the floor and steel plates on the doors. Some of the these rigs look like extras from the Mad Max motor pool. Anyway, time will tell just how much safer the Stryker guys are.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

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