Pic above: U.S. Army soldiers from Company B of the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, part of the 3rd Stryker brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division guard an armored Stryker vehicle that became stuck in the mud during a mission in New Baghdad, an eastern neighborhood in the Iraqi capital where soldiers searched for weapons and suspected insurgents on Sunday, Dec. 24, 2006 (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Ihatehippies wrote:

i'm sick of your m113 loving faggotry!

I'm sick of queer gay trucks claiming to be armored personnel carriers.

.... are you a used car salesman?

No, why ? Just watch the videos, esp. the series at the bottom and compare the facts. And then tell me with a straight face that you favor the Stryker over the Gavin again. Then we'll know who's the used car salesman here, or at least who's got such a personality. Strykers are brand-new scrap-metal. And the worst thing is: They are not alone. There are a dozen of newly introduced wheeled vehicles in the army which make the enemy laugh and cringe with the anticipation that the US might be stupid enough to field them into combat against his army. Just think about the Growler, e.g.





Pic above:
SSG Fa standing next to A24 after it rolled. During the winter the back country roads were all muddy and couldn't support the 22 tons of Stryker that we tried to drive on them. This was actually our very first day in sector. The recovery took 6 hours and eventually using two Bradley's towing and two Strykers winching we were able to get A24 out and drive it home.



NEWS:

New Stryker Faring Poorly in Field

Military.com | By Christian Lowe | January 30, 2008
BAQUBAH, Iraq - The newest version of the Army’s popular Stryker combat vehicle is garnering poor reviews here from Soldiers assigned to man its tank-like hull.

The General Dynamics Corp.-built Mobile Gun System looks like a typical eight-wheeled Stryker, except for a massive 105mm gun mounted on its roof. The gun fires three different types of projectiles, including explosive rounds, tank-busters and a "canister round" that ejects hundreds of steel pellets similar to a shotgun shell.

But while the system looks good on paper and the Army’s all for it, Soldiers with the 4th Battalion of the 9th Infantry Regiment -- one of the first units to receive the new vehicle for their deployment to Iraq -- don’t have a lot of good things to say about it.

"I wish [the enemy] would just blow mine up so I could be done with it," said Spec. Kyle Handrahan, 22, of Anaheim, Calif., a tanker assigned to Alpha Company, 4/9’s MGS platoon.

"It’s a piece," another MGS platoon member chimed in. "Nothing works on it."

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