From: flyn3nvt@adelphia.net
Date: Sun Oct 05 2003 - 14:28:31 PDT
>
> There might have been more dead Iraqis, but the end result would have
> likely been the same... total elimination of the supply unit.(This was the reason the GunTruck was Developed)
That was a
> sizeable ambush of an isolated unit, in an enemy controlled area, in an
> ideal ambush location, without supporting friendlies, and lacking more
> than basic combat training (i.e. these were not mech infantry). Do you know who developed the GUN TRUCK??? Truck Drivers did!
A few
> armored trucks could not overcome that particular situation IMHO.
I have never read any report that a Convoy was ambushed and captured US service men that Gun Trucks were used in Vietnam. As stated by a Vietnam Trucker in another Web site. "Transportation Units should be protect by Transportation Security from their own units, Let the MP's watch the bridges"
To say that Gun Trucks would have had no effect on the Jessica Lynch ambush is stupid.
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