From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Sun Nov 21 2004 - 09:31:47 PST
Oh, something else. Is everyone here familiar with Spc. Colby
Buzzell? He's the Specialist that has a web log over in Iraq.
Spc Buzzel had the following in his blog about the stryker.
>
>The RTO in my PLT, SPC Lafferty, wrote a letter to Soldier of
>Fortune magazine, concerning an article they printed several months
>ago where they talked breifly about the Stryker vehicle, and they
>actually printed his letter in this months issue. Here is the letter
>they printed:
>Title: Strykers Strike Out?
>"I was very disappointed to read in this magazine that I have been
>reading for 24 years. As a member of the Stryker BDE, I can say that
>it was the most inaccurate thing I have ever seen from SOF. If we
>are such a flop how did we roll up more "bad guys" in the two weeks
>we operated in Summara than 4th ID did the previous three months?
>Why did the locals give us the nickname "ghosts"
>We lost one victor in Sammara from an IED hit with no injuries to
>the crew. Since then we have survived numerous other iED's and RPG
>hits losing only one victor here in Mosul only because a fuel can
>ignited. Again, no injuries. The article stated we are too big for
>the back streets of Mosul. I only know of one street in my sector we
>couldn't go down and that was because there were two semis parked
>side by side.
>As for us learning the ropes... well, our one BDE replaced three
>from the 101st here in Mosul and we've been most assuredly holding
>our own while being tasked out to other areas of the theater as
>well, What a let down. Some on SOF, get it right."
>
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