1. You have to drive fast and maintain constant motion in urban areas in order to deny the enemy the chance to maneuver on your or ambush you.
2. Fact. It is the law in Iraq that all civillian traffic must yield to US convoys.
3. Fact. Driving faster will increase your chances of living thru an IED or VBIED (aka car bomb) because by the time you hit the initiator and the bomb goes off, you are already moving away from the bomb. I know about this, I've lived thru 2 IED's and 1 VBIED doing this.
4. Fact. Driving faster also protects the gunner, who is in the turret, from sniper fire. If the vehicle is sitting still, the only one not protected is the gunner, and he is a target for sniper fire. I've got a good friend who managed to not get shot or die while being shot at by two different snipers in two different positions at the same time.
5. Fact. Those of you who have not been over here, and have not seen what goes on here have no fucking idea what the real deal is over here, and you're all just armchair quarterbacks, and I consider you as useless as diahrrea.
6. Fact. The bad guys do use children as a way to get to Americans. They know Americans will help the children, and they use that to their advantage, they use children as bombers, as ways to stop the convoy to setup an ambush, and another tactic that I have personally seen; the bad guys are giving kids toy guns and telling the kids that if they point the guns at the Americans, then the Americans will give the kids candy. Then they videotape the kid as some soldier shoots the kid, thinking the weapon is real, because you really can't tell it not real until you take the gun away. I was lucky enough to be close enough to take the gun away.
7. Fact. From what I saw on the video, the soldiers driving the humvee followed the very restrictive ROE(Rules Of Engagement); so get off their nuts.
You disagree with the war, personally I think you're retarded for that, but hey, its cool with me; just don't go blaming the soldiers. I agree with the war, and will definately be coming back here again asap; however I disagree with the leadership at the general officer level, and I disagree with the way the war is being ran from the general officer level. You wanna make a change? Awesome, make them change their plan and send more COMBAT ARMS troops, no more support troops; there's not enough comat arms troops in country, and support soldiers mainly don't leave the wire. There's not enough combat arms soldiers on the streets patrolling and killing bad guys, and that's my disagreement with the war.
And if you think you know better, and haven't been here, go to your local recruiting office, sign up, get your ass over here, lemme know where you're at, and I'd be happy to be your team leader. Just make sure you go Infantry, b/c that's how you see things outside the wire. The real Iraq.
1. You have to drive fast and maintain constant motion in urban areas in order to deny the enemy the chance to maneuver on your or ambush you.
2. Fact. It is the law in Iraq that all civillian traffic must yield to US convoys.
3. Fact. Driving faster will increase your chances of living thru an IED or VBIED (aka car bomb) because by the time you hit the initiator and the bomb goes off, you are already moving away from the bomb. I know about this, I've lived thru 2 IED's and 1 VBIED doing this.
4. Fact. Driving faster also protects the gunner, who is in the turret, from sniper fire. If the vehicle is sitting still, the only one not protected is the gunner, and he is a target for sniper fire. I've got a good friend who managed to not get shot or die while being shot at by two different snipers in two different positions at the same time.
5. Fact. Those of you who have not been over here, and have not seen what goes on here have no fucking idea what the real deal is over here, and you're all just armchair quarterbacks, and I consider you as useless as diahrrea.
6. Fact. The bad guys do use children as a way to get to Americans. They know Americans will help the children, and they use that to their advantage, they use children as bombers, as ways to stop the convoy to setup an ambush, and another tactic that I have personally seen; the bad guys are giving kids toy guns and telling the kids that if they point the guns at the Americans, then the Americans will give the kids candy. Then they videotape the kid as some soldier shoots the kid, thinking the weapon is real, because you really can't tell it not real until you take the gun away. I was lucky enough to be close enough to take the gun away.
7. Fact. From what I saw on the video, the soldiers driving the humvee followed the very restrictive ROE(Rules Of Engagement); so get off their nuts.
You disagree with the war, personally I think you're retarded for that, but hey, its cool with me; just don't go blaming the soldiers. I agree with the war, and will definately be coming back here again asap; however I disagree with the leadership at the general officer level, and I disagree with the way the war is being ran from the general officer level. You wanna make a change? Awesome, make them change their plan and send more COMBAT ARMS troops, no more support troops; there's not enough comat arms troops in country, and support soldiers mainly don't leave the wire. There's not enough combat arms soldiers on the streets patrolling and killing bad guys, and that's my disagreement with the war.
And if you think you know better, and haven't been here, go to your local recruiting office, sign up, get your ass over here, lemme know where you're at, and I'd be happy to be your team leader. Just make sure you go Infantry, b/c that's how you see things outside the wire. The real Iraq.
I'm out
USArmy.