Posted: 12/22/2004 11:21:41 PM EDT
| Ok im stuck in Portland at Stealths and im watching John Waynes "Green Berets". And im asking my self.... Why the fuck are the jeeps not up-armored? My god men are dieing! WTF over? |
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I actually have an answer to end all of this. The military will just need to start making body armor that is like 4" steel plates that wrap all around the soldier and covers all parts of the body. It would be like a walking tank with like 500lbs of armor on it. The soldier might not be able to walk, but they wont get hurt very easily.
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Sorry, I did...that movie, IMHO, sucked ass. Nothing against the actor, I just hated that movie. |
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I never witnessed it, but heard sometimes (we were warned) Jeeps blew up from within...a grenade with pin pulled and the spoon wrapped in electrical tape was dropped into the fuel tank. Depending on number of wraps of tape roughly gave more or less time delay. A Jeep would probably bog down with very much armor added, IMO and you can't armor everything all the time. The troops wore the flak vests. Armored parachutes, however, landed too hard.  I think a rod was devised to block the opening in the filler neck, just under that huge inviting fuel cap. Too bad that movie did John Wayne an injustice...a bad movie at a bad time. 
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