Re: [MV] List of Inadequate Eqiupment used in Iraq

From: Richard Lathrop (lathrrs@snip.net)
Date: Tue Apr 08 2003 - 19:03:06 PDT


I would expect most of the Gulf War II footage will be played in an infanite loop on Discovery, History or Wings channels as well as be the subject for many video tapes. Expect it to start hitting the store shelves by Christmas.

Rick

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "G.R. Baker" <tired_iron@mounet.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 21:58:31 -0400

>The Abrams was part of the 3rd I.D. that was the first armored column to
>push into Baghdad. It was hit by a shoulder fired missile in the rear
>and caught fire, they thought they had the fire under control so they
>began towing it with another M1 until the fire became uncontrollable.
>The M1 was then blown up by the crew. Fox news reporter Greg Kelly
>covered it and got some great video of the whole mission. Wouldn't you
>like to see what fell on the edit room floor.
>
>GRB (7/24 Fox News viewer)
>
>
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>From: "Patrick Jankowiak" <eccm@swbell.net>
>To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 10:49 PM
>Subject: Re: [MV] List of Inadequate Eqiupment used in Iraq
>
>
>> I did see a look down into what appeared like an Abrams tank. It was
>> pretty much burned out, and the blow-off plates on the turret rear
>> deck were mising, indicating that the magazine may have exploded.
>> Anyone see that?
>
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