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| Title: Stryker Propaganda Film by General Dynamics & Taxpayer G.I.s |
| Description: Nomorenarcissism
WARNING: propaganda video with corrections. LAV-1/3/Stryker trucks are flawed road-bound, flat-bottomed deathtraps that lines the pockets of Army and marine officers/enlistedmen so they don't have to get a real job after leaving the service with a comfy lifetime of retirement benefits. To those that have to ride in them and die horribly driving into landmines on roads they cannot avoid due to a lack of cross-country mobility, they con them with how fashionably "hi tech" and comfortable they will look before being burned up into a body bag.
http://www.combatreform.com/strykerhorrors.htm
http://www.geocities.com/armorhistory/infantrytanks.htm
Look at the recent PBS documentary, "Afghanistan: the Other War", Go to 2:58 and see why the Canadians have gone to tracks in Afghanistan like other smarter armies, Brits, Dutch etc. Canadian LAV-IIIs hopelessly stuck in mud, breaks main bearing, mission aborted
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXFMix3dudU
In fact, the "New" LAV3Stryker wheeled infantry wagon dates back to 1954: a competent U.S. Army rejected it 53 years ago!
http://www.combatreform.com/usarmyrejectedLAV3STRYKERmotorizedtrucksin1954.jpg
Page 77 of Hunnicutt's book "Bradley: a History of American Fighting and Support Vehicles" shows the post-Korean war U.S. Army considered wheeled tin cans to motorize troops along with cross-country-mobile tracks. The "revolutionary", "new" road-bound wheels were rejected and M113 Gavin tracks were built; 57 years of combat success has followed ever since. Those that say LAV3/Strykers are "newer" are incompetent ignorants of armored vehicle history or willing liars.
Even if you are not immediately incinerated killed or maimed, being constantly ambushed by the enemy because your wheeled truck cannot leave roads/trails/streets is damaging to us. Taxpayers hurt. Enemy happy. Civilians see Americans cannot defend themselves much less them.
What matters in war is VICTORY--not prolonged operations however "brilliantly executed" (Sun Tzu said this--but since when do light infantry narcissists READ or THINK? Why bother listing sources?)
If we go broke operating easily ambushed wheeled trucks we will be forced to leave Iraq as surely as being defeated in a WW2-style pitched battle.
If you buy into the Canadian-made Stryker wheeled truck created by the liberal, big-government Clinton administration to do feel-good nation-building that is killing/maiming our Soldiers, that makes you a liberal, doesn't it?
These poor Canadian LAV-III Soldiers are just plain DEAD:
Liars say road-bound LAV-IIIs protect against land mines: Quebec Soldier Killed as Result
http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=b002bedc-45bb-4...
Private Simon Longtin first Van Doo killed in Afghanistan
Andrew Mayeda, CanWest News Service
Published: Sunday, August 19, 2007
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Quebec's storied Van Doos regiment is mourning its first loss in Afghanistan after a young private who arrived in the country only three weeks ago was killed by a roadside bomb.
Pte. Simon Longtin, 23, was travelling in a LAV-III armoured vehicle when it struck an improvised explosive device.
http://www.herofund.ca/?cat=74
Name: Master Corporal Christian Duchesne
Age:34
Died: August 22, 2007
Hometown: Montreal, Quebec
Children: Three daughters
Unit : 5th Field Ambulance (Valcartier, Quebec)
Master Corporal Christian Duchesne was a member of the 5th Field Ambulance, based at Valcartier, Quebec. Duchesne was killed when his armoured, LAV-III vehicle struck an improvised explosive device in southern Afghanistan.
For a sampling of all the U.S. Army LAV-III/Stryker and USMC LAV-1 needless dead:
http://www.combatreform.com/strykerhorrors.htm |
| Tags: corporate, corruption, greed, iraq, lav-3, stryker, trucks |
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