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| Title: Afghan Other War LAV3Stryker Trucks Ruin the Effort 2/3 |
| Description: Nomorenarcissism
PBS documentary shows a Canadian PRT team at an isolated FOB in Afghanistan trying to win over a nearby village from Taliban rebel sympathy by repairing their water pumps and supplying other needed items. "The kingdom is lost for want of a nail" when the native contracted supply column is turned away because the bomb sniffing dog discovers a driver has traces of explosives. Why OPSEC is violated by having locals drive supplies to FOBs in the first place? Thus, they cannot get measley spark plugs and LAV-III/Stryker clusterfuck drive into a run-down road-side black market where their "shooter" foot narcissists hop out and proceed to "block" the road by NOT blocking it as if Afghans who have lived with guns for centuries are going to cower at them brandishing firearms. When Afghans continue to drive because the Canadians didn't even post traffic cones, they eagerly open fire with "warning shots"...even when moving the fragile truck force resorts to gunplay because they don't feel safe in their allegedly "armored" LAV3Strykers spitting out warning shots left and right and causing a truck to over-turn and nearly killing an innocent Afghan.
This non-road block incompetence is practiced by DAMF American punks in Iraq, too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAJ46Wosrn0
A "pound-of-cure" MEDEVAC helicopter is flown in to fly him out, but the "ounce of preventable" damage is already done. So much for "winning hearts and minds" this day. Emasculated ground troops in wheeled LAV-III/Stryker trucks are set up for road/trail restricted failure wherever they are. How many spark plugs or even brand new water pumps do you think could have been purchased for the cost of avoiding the UH-60 Blackhawk MEDEVAC helicopter flight?
Why not send a LAV-III ambulance if they are sooo land-mine "protected" as their liar proponents say? Ask this Canadian Medic's family:
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. |
| Tags: afghanistan, gavin, lav-iii, m113, nato, strykers, taliban, tracks |
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