What you're not seeing there is how Iraqis use onramps as offramps, drive short distances down the highway in the wrong direction to save time and generally have 0 real driving rules.
And it's not uncommon to use a vehicle as a block on a road so a carbomber can catch up alongside and blow himself up. Lesser of two evils.
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
---Leonardo Da Vinci
We also don't know where they were going... they could be QRF, in which case I would want them running over damn near anything to get to me if I called them in.
"I think they all leak like that." - As seen on a Land Rover forum
We also don't know where they were going... they could be QRF, in which case I would want them running over damn near anything to get to me if I called them in.
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
---Leonardo Da Vinci
You can tell that they are terrified. Every second standing still is more time for an RPG to aim.
or a suicide bomber to walk up to your vehicle or a car bomber to drive up on the side of you or an IED that was set up to blow up next to you or...
I didn't realize how much stress I was actually under while I was there until the day I crossed the border into Kuwait (after a two day ground convoy).
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
---Leonardo Da Vinci
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Originally Posted by Mo-Noyz
or a suicide bomber to walk up to your vehicle or a car bomber to drive up on the side of you or an IED that was set up to blow up next to you or...
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