From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Sun Oct 05 2003 - 15:49:30 PDT
At 6:25 PM -0400 10/5/03, Steve Grammont wrote:
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>The convoy was hit by a superior force in a tight urban environment by a
>determined foe with the weapons to destroy even heavily armored vehicles.
> If you can find me a similar situation in Vietnam where gun trucks alone
>resulted in no US casualties or captured members, then you'd come closer
>to comparing apples to apples.
Plus the force that attacked the convoy got a very good look at it's
capabilities when it drove down that same street the first time.
That's an important detail. They attacked it once they knew it wasn't
something too big for them to take.
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