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Originally posted by island911
The question was an obvious set-up . .. leveraging an existing concern.
I've got to ask you critics; is a Humvee quicker, or slower, when modified with massive amounts of steel-plating?
I mean what do we really have out there?
Do we have a surgical, fast, quiet moving force in Humvees, or a heavy, noisy, big-blowem-up tank force?
. . . or some Gruppe B'ers with Humvees, thinking they can weld-on stuff until it looks like the Abrams?
FWIW, I'm fine with giving our troops the tanks. . . no more of this door to door search crap . . . just point that big gun and BOOM goes the building.
. . .That is what you whiners want . . right?
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By all means, the question was a setup. But again, the setup pales in comparison to the question itself. In other words, the question posed a "scoop."
Hummers as a much a target as anything or anyone else. Put all the armor in the world on one, and it won't be any less a target. With the insurgents, it's timing and luck when they can kill a Hummer.
The larger picture that this points to is a lack of preparation for this war; a lack of study of the enemy and the potential of peripheral instigators spilling over the border. There aren't enough troops there, equipment and the morale is falling quickly. As I might have said, the soldier who asked the question is a Nat'l Guardsman, who have, on a whole, been poorly-equipped for this battle. They've been made to be seen as the poor step child to the other soldiers in the war.