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This former Bradley Commander,gunner,driver, and dismount squad leader disagrees. The more the armor and IFVs have dismounts to protect their flanks and root out enemy ATGMs the better

I totally agree about the Marders, Ukraine could use that firepower and FCS to great advantage. In any case the US has hundreds of 113s in storage and boneyards. We can certainly afford to give Ukraine some of them.

Don't underestimate the M113. They are armored as well as BMP 1s and 2s. They are excellent as battlefield ambulances, frontline ammo carriers, ways to get tank and IFV recovery crews to damaged AFVs under armor and multiple other logistical tasks. They will free up other IFVs to do the fighting and give the poor truck drivers a break.

He's right tho. But I'm a former NCO myself. So.....

Don't forget we had to walk 5 miles uphill both ways just to send those likes through snail mail lol

My experience as well. As a squad leader, some of my beat team leaders were either rural or inner city.

Facts. I can attest to all of that.

My point was there is NO racism here. Excuse the simplification.

What racism? Both sides are white Slavic. Racism plays no real role in this. Hating invaders who come to subjugate, rape, kill, and destroy is completely understandable.

For sure! But considering how much all the stuff they made us carry around weighed , "light" is just a name. lol

@Haiduk, @kraze Agreed. What is being done to your country and your people is vile and evil. Your anger and hatred towards your enemies is justified. All the " be nice to each other" crap can wait until the war is over. Be safe and keep your heads down guys.

They were using old school impact fuzes as far as I know. I never saw one of those mortat IEDs explode personally. But one Humvee from my battalion did run over one and lost a wheel and took a bunch of shrapnel damage. Fortunately the crew only received minor injuries. Uparmored Humvees are pretty tough

They liked to bury 82mm mortar bombs with the fuses pointing up.

To bury IEDs

My own US Army mechanized infantry battalion did that. I was in Alpha Company and all our tracks had names that began with A. My Bradley was called Annihilator.

I'm beginning to suspect that many of these Majors were in the vicinity of Colonels and/or Generals at the time of their demise.

Try a Bradley turret. You guys had a living room to our closet!

It's a Toyota Hi-Lux

Heard and understood.

Even during Desert Shield we only ate one MRE per day, Breakfast and dinner were always hot chow from the mess trailer. We all understood what a steady diet of only MREs could do to one's digestive system. When the ground war kicked off our diet became MREs only for obvious reasons, but even then all of us had stocked on real food sent from home in care packages. Chef Boyardee saved my gut from too many MREs! lol

No heater packs with the original brown bag MREs. I was an E4 in Germany when they started hitting the line units in the 80s. The only ones I found edible were the Ham slice, and the dehydrated pork and beef patties.

No one, and I mean NO ONE who I knew during the introduction of the original MREs thought Chicken a la King was the best of anything. It looked and smelled like dogs vomit.

Good point. But I think crossing the WMD line might be that Rubicon. I don't necessarily mean NATO using nukes, but I think that might be the line for direct kinetic involvement.

On paper at least the US has a policy that any use of WMDs to include biological or chemical allows for the use of nukes by the US.

A very good book.