Reply #4: wow, 2 IED hits a day?!

[leftchick]

This should be required reading for the tv loving ameriKans....

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This unit of 2,200 Marines alone is hit at a rate of two roadside bombs daily, and an average of four are discovered each day. "IED" has become a verb to the Marines: "Some of us have been IED'd five or six times," Messer said.

Many are aimed at the 7-ton supply trucks that ply the highways, as the shrapnel-pocked fleet sitting in the parking lot of the 24th MEU shows. The Marines try to avoid putting anyone in the unprotected back of the trucks, pushing everyone into the armored cabs, where "you're fairly well protected," Parchment said.


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The only visible damage was a streak of jagged rips along the driver's side where shrapnel had strafed it.
The punctures started just above the front tire and rose toward the driver's seat, slicing between the armored side of the hood and the armored door.

"Look at the dashboard if you want to see what happened," said Messer, with a toss of his head toward the Humvee. The gauges were covered with large drops of dried blood. The Marines did not know whether the driver had survived.