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Posted: 1/24/2020 11:48:42 PM EDT

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BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRTTTTT!

Posted: 1/24/2020 11:50:49 PM EDT

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Manned a 240G on the back of a 7 ton plenty. It was the Wild West in 2003, 04, 05.

Posted: 1/25/2020 1:03:49 AM EDT

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duster sometimes put in with a convoy
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M-42 Dusters lay down some pain! Dual 40mm Fireworks!

Posted: 1/25/2020 1:09:20 AM EDT

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War Pig "Mother"
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Beautiful. Those things have a real WW2 LRDG look to them.

Posted: 1/25/2020 1:12:44 AM EDT

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Great find here OP!

Posted: 1/25/2020 1:23:04 AM EDT

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Legitimately Badass.

Posted: 1/25/2020 1:23:23 AM EDT

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Cool stuff. Thanks for posting.

Posted: 1/25/2020 1:38:02 AM EDT

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03/04 and 05/06 Baghdad you saw all kinds of wild contraptions for vehicles. 03/04 we put sandbags in the floorboards of soft sided vehicles, and had to swap around plates between people so everyone going out had a front and back plate. We'd ride around Baghdad in troop career soft skins piled into the back. By the time of the second deployment soft skinned vehicles were prohibited from leaving the wire but everyone had a wide arrange of equipment. 3 color desert, ACU, and woodland all on the same person was the norm. At least the second time around we all had plates.

Posted: 1/25/2020 1:39:01 AM EDT

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Not a gun truck, but we had a number of these in the AO and I thought they were the coolest things ever.

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Posted: 1/25/2020 2:38:56 AM EDT

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That was a great video OP.

Got dusty in here watching it.

Posted: 1/25/2020 2:44:54 AM EDT

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I have not seen anything like what you have posted. Thank you very much for showing these.

Posted: 1/25/2020 3:53:19 AM EDT

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Great thread. Thanks for the pics and video.

Posted: 1/25/2020 4:10:44 AM EDT

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It's a shame that the lessons learned from Convoy OPs in Vietnam were so quickly forgotten. We had to start from scratch in 2003/4.

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I said the same thing in 2003/4.... "US Army forgot everything they learned in Vietnam."

Posted: 1/25/2020 8:54:40 AM EDT

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Being a student of history I was familiar with the Vietnam gun trucks.

I got to Iraq in early 2004 during the sand bag/PASGT flak jackets draped on vehicles/Bubba armor phase. We were reinventing the wheel. The whole time I was saying "We've done this before, why didn't we plan for this?"

Posted: 1/25/2020 9:08:28 AM EDT

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This thread is cool.

Posted: 1/25/2020 9:22:54 AM EDT

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Being a student of history I was familiar with the Vietnam gun trucks.

I got to Iraq in early 2004 during the sand bag/PASGT flak jackets draped on vehicles/Bubba armor phase. We were reinventing the wheel. The whole time I was saying "We've done this before, why didn't we plan for this?"

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I said the same thing in 2003/4.... "US Army forgot everything they learned in Vietnam."

Being a student of history I was familiar with the Vietnam gun trucks.

I got to Iraq in early 2004 during the sand bag/PASGT flak jackets draped on vehicles/Bubba armor phase. We were reinventing the wheel. The whole time I was saying "We've done this before, why didn't we plan for this?"

Even the general officers were saying that.
Post-Vietnam some politicians decided we didn't need a relevant military, so they called it a "peace dividend" & gave away war reserve materiel, closed arsenals & armories, cut back resupply & upgrades. To the point that aside from a few whiz bang weapons, the military was using equipment from the Vietnam era which was itself adapted from Korean War equipment. MKTs, Laundries, Latrines, Showers, Tents, Parachutes, Heaters. All old school because it wasn't sexy like tanks, cannons, guns.

Posted: 1/25/2020 9:31:05 AM EDT

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Posted: 1/25/2020 9:57:19 AM EDT

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ost

Posted: 1/25/2020 10:11:11 AM EDT

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Posted: 1/25/2020 10:37:40 AM EDT

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That was an awesome documentary, now I want a gun truck.

Posted: 1/25/2020 10:44:54 AM EDT

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I'm taking notes for the Boogaloo.

Posted: 1/25/2020 11:04:52 AM EDT

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I think I'd want a Quad Fifty on a gun truck protecting my convoy than a .308 minigun.

Posted: 1/25/2020 11:16:13 AM EDT

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GWOT SF LMTV/FMTV War Pigs, Operational Detachment Bravo Support Trucks for ODA GMVs:
3SFG Battle of Debecka Pass War Pig "MAD MAX" (Crossing the Green Line-Operation Viking Hammer) resupplying ODA 390, 391, 392 Roughnecks:
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Unverified ODB 5ton FMTV and 2.ton LMTV LVAD Air Drop Truck War Pigs:
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Boy. Does that first picture sure bring back some memories.

Posted: 1/25/2020 11:59:07 AM EDT

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Thanks OP, yesterday the 24th was the 46th anniversary of the death of my best friend back in high school. He did two tours as a quad 50 gunner, I know he spent some time based out of Quang Tri.

His job, which he loved, was to guard the guys who defoliated the jungle. He showed me some photos of before and after and I was blown away asking him how the hell did they do that…so he told me about agent orange. I asked him isn’t that stuff dangerous, won’t it harm you? He said naw when the guy’s ask if it’s dangerous I just stick my fingers in the barrel, it’s a powder and I lick it off my fingers like Lik-M-Aid which was an old time candy we grew up with.

He died in the VA hospital in Boston about 2-3 years after returning home.

I'm, looking forward to watching the video later today…. maybe he’ll be in it. Thanks again for posting!

Posted: 1/25/2020 3:46:44 PM EDT

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Posted: 1/25/2020 3:48:14 PM EDT

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This months issue of 4 Wheeler

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Posted: 1/25/2020 3:56:54 PM EDT

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Awesome post. Maybe guns-a-go-go for the next one.

Posted: 1/25/2020 4:44:46 PM EDT

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Caught that a while back on a Sunday. Dad walked through the room and was like "I saw that one once" and sat down to watch a little bit. Dad doesn't talk much about what he did over there. Mostly going out and getting broke down equipment, little choppers being bait for the big ones to clear out Charles before they landed to get stuff. I know more about what his friends did over there than what he did.

Posted: 1/25/2020 5:16:58 PM EDT

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Thanks Op great video.

Years ago I worked with a Vietnam vet who drove those tanker trucks.

He never talked much about his service but one day he did a little.

I remember him saying once that when that convoy got rolling there was no stopping them.

They'd roll right through towns and villages and you'd better be out of the way or splat.

Sadly he died of cancer at 44yrs.

He thought maybe agent orange.

Rest in peace Bill and thank you again for your service.

Posted: 1/25/2020 5:39:38 PM EDT

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Cool thread.

It’s like someone said let’s take a Vietnam gun truck and put wings on it. Thus the A-10 was born.

Posted: 1/25/2020 5:52:04 PM EDT

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My lottery winning goal is to buy four Ma Deuces and a handful of M-60's so I can turn an old Deuce-and-a-half or LMTV into a gun truck with a quad .50 mount on the ass end.

Posted: 1/25/2020 6:23:57 PM EDT

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It's crazy to think these guys were just truck drivers. And a non-combat MOS. Yet they probably saw more heavy combat than the grunts, whose job is to get into a gun fight.

Posted: 1/26/2020 9:07:58 AM EDT

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Well done OP. This thread is dope as hell.

The posters in this thread remind everyone of great Americans, and their ingenuity.

Posted: 1/26/2020 10:26:41 AM EDT

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They also had smaller M151 versions

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Posted: 1/26/2020 11:38:33 AM EDT

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So much respect for those young folks both then and now, in harms way, from this old treadhead. It’s more than a little dusty here right now...

Thank you.

Posted: 1/26/2020 12:14:51 PM EDT

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Vietnam Rough Riders is an pretty decent account of this part of nam.

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