Re: [MV] Lack of armor in Iraq

From: Ryan M Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Mon Jul 21 2003 - 13:54:10 PDT


At 4:52 PM -0400 7/21/03, bonnie houghton wrote:
> Lack of "Gun Trucks"................your right there is none! All of the
>guys that I talk to that operated, maintained and built Gun Trucks in
>Vietnam are saying............"Did we not learn anything from what we did
>overthere??"

Its a somewhat different environment. Many of our guys are dying from
a grenade having been tossed at them while they're standing at a road
block talking to someone or in a market dealing with a dispute. Our
guys are targets simply because the Pro-Saddam elements have zero
respect for our guys and life in general. Ambushes on columns of
trucks aren't as big an issue as I understand it.

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