Is the U.S. Crazy?

[JonLP24]

43. That is terrible

A KBR convoy was hijacked in Southern Iraq which we were informed of during the mission brief before heading back to Kuwait from CSC Scania, if my memory is correct that made the news as they were later beheaded. It had to sometime After winter in 2007, I think.

Civilian vehicles & convoys are incredibly risky. In our convoys, for some reason the early border of Navistar in Kuwait & Iraq was a hotspot for truck hijacking attempts (but they would keep the vehicles and drive off into the dirt) but they would only target the TCN vehicles I guess because they were fiberglass Mercedes semis. Another time and we make an effort to only drive at night because of curfew (enforced by the US) & less visibility so keep that in mind when there was soccer game going on to the left us in country land next to the major Iraq of southern Iraq when spontanously the all started trying to hijack TCN vehicles but the gun trucks drove them away (didn't even shoot).

The only time a convoy I was on was receiving small arms fire (which you have no idea where its coming from and who it was hitting) all appeared to be aimed directly at one TCN vehicle which shredding the tires and there was even a bullet entry an inch below where the man's feet was on the floor of the driver's side.

Not only what they did was incredibly risky, they were often the primary targets and a lot of these guys are Muslims so I hope some take that into consideration when discussing the faith as a whole.