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re: Video of how this US soldier drove his convoy in Iraq
Posted on 2/8/22 at 10:16 am to Byrdybyrd05
Posted on 2/8/22 at 10:16 am to Byrdybyrd05
it's ridiculous we have to go to these shithole countries anyway.
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Posted on 2/8/22 at 10:17 am to CPT Tiger
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(2/2ACR) took a major ambush in Sadr City
Cougar?
Posted on 2/8/22 at 10:26 am to KajunGator
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I wish we had those when I deployed
Nothing like rolling around in a high back with chicken wire to keep grenades out
Posted on 2/8/22 at 10:28 am to Afish85
Not even the Chicken Wire...we were totally out there.
Posted on 2/8/22 at 10:30 am to SPEEDY
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Video needed “Move Bitch” to be played over it
was coming here to post this
Posted on 2/8/22 at 10:31 am to KajunGator
Exactly…when we first rolled in 2003 it was “sunsout, guns out”…when we went from heroes to zeros with locals soon after, we were begging, borrowing and stealing armor to put on trucks.
Posted on 2/8/22 at 10:33 am to ValhallaAwaits
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when we first rolled in 2003 it was “sunsout, guns out"
Sometimes I miss those days at Camp Wareagle.
Posted on 2/8/22 at 10:34 am to KajunGator
One of my BIL's Purple Hearts was earned on his way out of country. Freaking convoy to Kuwait was hit with IEDs. I don't see how the troops, especially early on, ever trusted ANYONE driving, walking, or standing anywhere near them.
Posted on 2/8/22 at 10:35 am to KajunGator
Didn’t make it til 05 by then had “upgraded” to chicken wire and whatever metal could be slapped on
Posted on 2/8/22 at 10:59 am to KajunGator
Were you with 1stAD?
Posted on 2/8/22 at 11:08 am to Earnest_P
Sir, I believe you missed my point! We didn’t have time to wait, and like it or not some of us were there with a job and mission to complete. So, again, unless you were there, keep your bleeding vagina comments to the political board!
Posted on 2/8/22 at 11:16 am to Reservoir dawg
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Roadside IED's and car bombs made this a different war. I can't imagine facing that every day.
Which is why a lot of those guys had much worse PTSD than the previous wars (sans Nam). I can remember my squad leader speaking about how when they got back from over there how tense he would be just driving around town in the US. He said it took him a while to stop white knuckling every time he got in his Jeep.
Posted on 2/8/22 at 11:25 am to ValhallaAwaits
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Were you with 1stAD?
1/2 ACR
Posted on 2/8/22 at 11:51 am to KajunGator
quote:Same for us. We took the doors off so we could jump out faster and "up-armored" them with sandbags on the floorboards.
I was in Sadr City for a year, 03-04, and we had soft sides. Most of the time we took the tarps off the back and the doors off the cab so we could see better.
Posted on 2/8/22 at 11:56 am to ValhallaAwaits
quote:It's hard to believe now but we really were treated like "heroes" by the Iraqi's for the first few weeks. They would line the streets when we passed chanting "USA" and "George Bush".
Exactly…when we first rolled in 2003 it was “sunsout, guns out”…when we went from heroes to zeros with locals soon after, we were begging, borrowing and stealing armor to put on trucks.
Posted on 2/8/22 at 12:03 pm to northshorebamaman
I wonder now if these signs are everywhere in the ME.
Posted on 2/8/22 at 12:22 pm to KajunGator
10-4; went to OIF 1st time with 3/325th
Posted on 2/8/22 at 12:54 pm to ValhallaAwaits
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went to OIF 1st time with 3/325th
Fallujah or Baghdad?
Posted on 2/8/22 at 6:56 pm to KajunGator
Samawah and Ramadi; WIA before drive into Fallujah. You?
Posted on 2/8/22 at 8:43 pm to charlestonchief
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Sir, I believe you missed my point! We didn’t have time to wait, and like it or not some of us were there with a job and mission to complete. So, again, unless you were there, keep your bleeding vagina comments to the political board!
I’m not blaming soldiers for doing their jobs in wartime. I believe Americans served honorably in these wars.
I’m blaming politicians for starting wars that didn’t need to be fought.
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