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Strykers Refurbished After Iraq
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| January 11, 2006
Posted on 01/11/2006 12:13:44 PM PST by Cannoneer No. 4
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To: Cannoneer No. 4
Maybe, but that "tornado fence" they had to put on the thing still looks silly, even if it did work.
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posted on
01/11/2006 12:17:18 PM PST
by
Little Pig
(Is it time for "Cowboys and Muslims" yet?)
To: af_vet_rr; ALOHA RONNIE; American in Israel; American Soldier; archy; armymarinemom; bad company; ..
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posted on
01/11/2006 12:17:53 PM PST
by
Cannoneer No. 4
(Quo Fas et Gloria Ducunt)
To: Vetvoice
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posted on
01/11/2006 12:20:18 PM PST
by
Cannoneer No. 4
(Quo Fas et Gloria Ducunt)
To: Cannoneer No. 4
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posted on
01/11/2006 12:21:38 PM PST
by
Alamo-Girl
(Monthly is the best way to donate to Free Republic!)
To: Cannoneer No. 4
Wonder what they mean by 'rebuilt'?
"Rebuilt" can mean a bunch of different things depending upon who is asked.
(My old motors section would say 'rebuilt' means taken down to the frame and put back together.)
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posted on
01/11/2006 12:26:09 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(Beware the waddling Penguin Invaders from Ursa Minor!)
To: Cannoneer No. 4
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posted on
01/11/2006 12:30:12 PM PST
by
blackie
To: Cannoneer No. 4
But the troops who used the Strykers liked them...
That's all I need to know. Order up some more of those badboys pronto!
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posted on
01/11/2006 12:38:18 PM PST
by
Flora McDonald
(got teufelhunden?)
To: Darksheare
The wrecked ones are to be rebuilt. I take that to mean depot-level return to original condition for reissue rebuild. Anniston Army Depot could take a POS dogged out high mileage M60A1 and give you back one that was better than new.
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posted on
01/11/2006 12:39:37 PM PST
by
Cannoneer No. 4
(Quo Fas et Gloria Ducunt)
To: Cannoneer No. 4
Okers.
Sounds like a 'complete teardown and eval' reuild then.
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posted on
01/11/2006 12:41:35 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(Beware the waddling Penguin Invaders from Ursa Minor!)
To: Cannoneer No. 4
I think the Strykers are well-suited to the Iraq mission. I would have expected more maintenance problems, especially with the heat and dust and sensitive electronics on board.
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posted on
01/11/2006 12:42:27 PM PST
by
colorado tanker
(I can't comment on things that might come before the Court, but I can tell you my Pinochle strategy)
To: Cannoneer No. 4
But the troops who used the Strykers liked them
That is the acid test.
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posted on
01/11/2006 12:46:55 PM PST
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
To: All
Has anybody read this book?
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posted on
01/11/2006 12:49:04 PM PST
by
Cannoneer No. 4
(Quo Fas et Gloria Ducunt)
To: Cannoneer No. 4
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01/11/2006 1:31:25 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(Beware the waddling Penguin Invaders from Ursa Minor!)
To: Cannoneer No. 4
Like most new military vehicles, they received a lot of criticism for being too expensive, too fragile, too heavy, too big and unsuited to the task.I spoke with a returning Stryker Brigade hero last month. He told me of a time when they were rolling thru a city street with buildings on each side. There was an explosion, and the buildings on both sides of them were levelled....and they kept rolling right along. IMHO - they are only too expensive if they don't work.
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posted on
01/11/2006 1:36:13 PM PST
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
To: Cannoneer No. 4
I read it over Christmas vacation...very cool and enlightening. The Strykers get a thumbs up from what I remember.
To: Cannoneer No. 4
I'm ready for a new tv show on either MTV or the Pentagon Channel:
Pimp my Stryker.
Trick them out, spinning wheels, fancy paint, DVD players etc.
To: Cannoneer No. 4
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posted on
01/11/2006 9:32:58 PM PST
by
Khurkris
("Hell, I was there"...Elmer Keith.)
To: Khurkris
This is directly from the General Dynamics press room. The only reason they are doing the refit instead of our Army depots is that they will not sell us the part. They are getting rich again along with the train of generals they bought - you remember Heebner, Keane and the top general Shinseki.
They hardly mention the Strykers that were not worth shipping home. There are 48 of those wrecks on Qatar in the loving arms of General Dynamics. In order to keep the Army's boast alive that they never lost a Stryker, the 48 on Qatar will be rebuilt even if these is only one screw left.
Damn you people are gullible. Talk to some soldiers that are now OUT of the Stryker Brigades. They tell an entirely different tale than the one General Dynamics ginned up.
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posted on
01/15/2006 9:05:23 PM PST
by
Vetvoice
To: Cannoneer No. 4
Answered in full on a back channel. I will open the correspondence to anyone if Cannoneer does not get the message and react...
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posted on
01/15/2006 9:38:09 PM PST
by
Vetvoice
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