Posted: 5/11/2008 5:45:31 PM EDT
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You gettin' these? On our way back from Salem this afternoon we saw five with bumper markings {deleted for opsec, as if it matters what with rolling down I5...} heading in the Madigan gate. Mrs. Drang's aunt asked "What kind of tanks are those?" 
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Mrs. Drang sez: "Aren't those Strykers?" I say: "No, they're not Strykers, maybe Caddy-Gage... No, they're not V100s or 150s... Maybe an MRAP, since they're MilPopo, but all the MRAPs I've seen photos of are bigger..." Mrs. Drang: "Are they amphibious?" Me: "Beats me, the caddy-gage were, so were the Aeropoint Dragoon's we played around with in the early '80s. Sort of." |
Those are ASV's, the MP Corps smaller version of the Stryker. They've been around for awhile. Good small arms protection, bad IED Magnets though. Having the .50 and Mk-19 mounted together is alot of fun. I've been in two that have rolled from taking a corner to fast. 
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| Having been a squid, I never had the opportunity to see any of this cool shit, except in parades. My recent brief stint at Lewis opened my eyes to a whole new world of armor on wheels. I'm not all that excited about how they're put together, but, oooooweeeebaybeee, what could be bad about a vehicle wit da gatz, yo? |
Awww Shit. This just keeps getting better and better the more I hear 'bout these things.  
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Last I checked, I may not have a choice. 
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I've been talking with a Maj. that's over now, and he doesn't like them. He says it's for personal reasons, no solid data that says they are crap, but well.... On the plus side, they are almost a certain improvement over the M1114. I just wish that our brads had the speed to keep up with wheeled convoys, and that they had been designed to run with more uptime and less maintenance. |
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Sumthin' about your driver being an certian unamed E8 is just icing on the cake. I liked the idea of, "...and you'll find the next one at grid...."  I think the scouts would've been able to corral all of them in say, two or three drills. 
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I was too busy standing in line for anthrax and typhoid shots. Then to talk to LTC Breeden so he coulds say, "Yeah, no shit!," when I said I probably wasn't medically deployable. |
history of recurrent (came back, couple times so far) metastatic (its spread) cancer seems to be. Trust me I tried. I offered to go if theyd send me back to the states or Germany or any decent place every 3 or 4 months for a CT scan. So Im trying for a full on medical retirement instead. |
Now, that looks like one awesome Urban Assault Vehicle. Is that thing on the end of the boom a claw? A mount for a variety of attachments? or just a "Poke at it and see if it goes 'BOOM!'" attachment? Problem with up-armored humvees was (and almost certainly still is) that they didn't upgrade the suspension or transmission when they upgraded the armor. Hell, soft-side humvees had shitty suspensions and |
