April 17, 2007

Marines Scramble To Save Humvee After VBIED Explosion

While using a Humvee to push an abandoned vehicle out of the road, the vehicle explodes, setting fire to the Humvee. In a valiant effort to save their equipment, ammunition and armaments, the Marines scramble onto the vehicle and begin stripping it... at considerable personal risk.

This was apparently the second time this had happened to the same group of soldiers in less than two weeks.
To quote one of the soldiers from this unit: "Welcome to f**king Iraq."

Posted by: Kafir at 10:06 AM | Comments (3) | Add Comment
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1 I am just glad I heard the last five seconds: "He's Ok!"
I assume the Marine is talking about the driver.
Thank God!

Posted by: Garduneh Mehr at April 17, 2007 12:01 PM (j97MF)

2 This is a old video, I think I saw this on Defencetech way back guesing 04'.  They did it as a what not to do type video with EOD occations.  A abandoned car in road deploying a humvee to push it out of the way rather than a EOD unit, the squad leader should be busted down for such. 

If they really couldn't wait for EOD or that was not even a option either blow the dam thing up or swiss cheese it.  After a good swiss cheese if it doesn't explode a push would probably be pretty safe.

This is a old video we have long moved pasted such not knowing better.

Posted by: C-Low at April 17, 2007 05:46 PM (ZNANk)

3 story lead:

Multi-million $$$ spy in JIEDDO

http://warintel.blogspot.com/2007/04/multi-million-spy-in-jieddo.html

http://tinyurl.com/3765cb

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Posted by: gerald at April 18, 2007 05:00 PM (h0BrM)

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