From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Tue Feb 19 2002 - 07:41:24 PST
At 8:11 AM -0600 2/19/02, John Stewart-Smith wrote:
>Yes, we used a lightly armored weapons carrier in a central African location
>in 1990. It was the slope back version, with a turret ring. It bore no
>identification markings whatsoever, and our uniforms matched. It was a
>dismal failure, because it really stood out against dark (night time)
>backgrounds, especially when using night vision. So did we! Not stealthy at
>all.
>Terrible idea for combat, but we sure were Hollywood cool!
The SAS Pink Panthers come to mind as being not so Hollywood cool but
infinitely better for combat in terms of concealment.
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