[bereanway]

Just talked with a friend who recently returned from Iraq in April hauling jet fuel for Haliburton from south of Baghdad to Anaconda. His convoy of 25 trucks got the snot hammered out of them on Good Friday (I think he said they left 3 trucks with 6,000 gal each of fuel burning on the road), most of the drivers in the convoy quit immediately and headed home. He said at the time they only had three army vehicles (MP's) with the entire convoy. He has since talked to some of the drivers who remained and said they now have a shooter (Army) in every third vehicle and they've cut down the size of the convoys. The drivers like that much better since they could not carry weapons and this way feel like they have at least a little more cover.

Holden is a fool, he has no idea what's going on over there. Seems to me the military has some interest in protecting American civilians whether Holden likes it or not.

[okie01]

Holden is a fool, he has no idea what's going on over there.

Holden is a Democrat. That he's a fool goes without saying...

[Lokibob]

In VN ( I hate to keep bringing up VN, but my only experience), we used 4 march orders on a convoy. first march order had flammables, gasoline and jet fuel.

The thinking was that the VC would try to hit the first march order, and the more the convoy rolled on toward the ambush, the more guns were massed on Charlie.

In addition, the drivers and shotguns had the ability to be picked up by the remaining 3 march orders.

To put a truck out there in convoy or alone is inviting disaster if they don't have a shotgunner.

The MO gov is an idiot.