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Robbien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-04 12:02 AM Original message |
Armored Vehicle Lost In Fallujah For Five Hours |
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happyslug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-04 12:32 AM Response to Original message |
1. To big a Vehicle to be used in any city |
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jayfish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-04 12:37 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Shock And Awe? |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-04 12:40 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. I Guess that is why some are called "track vehicles" |
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jayfish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-04 12:44 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. I Don't Know Firm Numbers... |
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Solon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-04 01:09 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Tanks are sitting ducks in cities without infantry support. |
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KeepItReal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-04 02:14 AM Response to Reply #1 |
9. This vechicle was designed for amphibious assualt not urban patrols |
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happyslug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-04 01:31 PM Response to Reply #9 |
14. The old M113 was a good Vehicle given its limitations |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-04 03:21 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Drove an M113a3 in Korea. |
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happyslug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-04 10:00 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. M113 A3 |
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BrotherBuzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-04 10:52 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. I think magnesium armor would be a really stupid idea |
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happyslug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-04 09:42 AM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Why?? Aluminum burns also |
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ConcernedCanuk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-04 01:24 AM Response to Original message |
6. They are destroying peoples homes by the thousands - |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-04 01:33 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. The Bushites are Peters ... myopic ones at that |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-04 03:27 PM Response to Reply #6 |
17. It sounds like things are far worse than we are being told. |
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anarchy1999 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-04 01:49 AM Response to Original message |
8. Just Impressive, just GD'd Impressive! |
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JohnOneillsMemory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-04 02:31 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Aug. 20, 1920 'Report from Mesopotamia' by T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia) |
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anarchy1999 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-04 03:31 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. If I am not mistaken, the betrayal of the PanArabs by the British |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-04 03:29 PM Response to Reply #11 |
18. OMG! This was seventy years ago! We've learned nothing. |
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yellowcanine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-04 09:52 AM Response to Reply #18 |
25. We are stuck with a president who doesn't like or understand history so |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-04 02:24 AM Response to Original message |
10. Sounds like a movie..."Lost in Falluja".. |
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western mass (718 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-04 06:02 AM Response to Original message |
13. Desperate Rescue Mission in Fallujah (WP) |
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Calico Jack Rackham (410 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-04 02:06 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Back when I was in |
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GreatCaesarsGhost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-04 10:36 PM Response to Original message |
20. can you come and pick us up? |
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ahimsa (279 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-04 12:45 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. incredible story |
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Gin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-04 09:48 AM Response to Reply #22 |
24. I am surprised they all made it safely into a building...if they were |
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Nihil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-04 10:39 AM Response to Reply #24 |
26. Depends ... |
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