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RE: Re: FMTV I know that the up-armored cabs both the LSAC and SIMULA did a great job in protecting our Soldiers and having been there twice as you said I am only saying that the FMTV should have been designed with the armor in place from the GITGO. By 2005 most of our FMTV fleet on the Iraqi...

What is really a shame is seeing a 5 ton FMTV with an armor cab on it's nose with the duals in the air because the truck can not be driven safely as an armored bobtail. That severly hampers my convoy ops since a bobtail is always a part of the trail party. We need a re-think of the whole...

I don't consider the FMTV to be one of the Army's finest hour things. Since they were bought in relativly recent days with history and lethality being what it is they did not have protection for the crew or critical components built in. So now we have a truck with very reduced capacity with...