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http://www.steelsoldiers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=69813&d=1193627353 One of the actual USAF 5 tons that the Army let us keep because we managed to break the frame (with some help from an IED). This is the armor that they went to after SSgt Dustin Peters and A1C Carl Anderson Junior were...

I do not know how many of you remember that quote... it was in response to a lower ranking enlisted man stationed in Kuwait asking why our vehicles in Iraq had no or poor armor, and another asking why our troops had to scrounge through garbage piles looking for sheetmetal to weld to truck...

No problem. I have a bit of a soft spot for those older trucks. The first mil truck I trained on when I was an E-2 was a very dodgy M35 who's turbo had failed and simply been pulled. I remember having dificulty with the shift pattern, and lack of power steering. Those problems were massively...

That is Kuwaiti, the obvious giveaway (for me anyway) is the styalised water tower on the label, which is as much a symbol of kuwait as the Arch is to St Louis, or SPQR is to Rome.

I have done four convoy tours. The first one was in '04 where our main platform was the 923. We did have one or two deuces. I was part of the (USAF)494 LMTC, 44CSB under the 1st ID, running out of Mosul Iraq. What makes me think that this truck is not a gun truck is that we jerry rigged all our...