And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
years ago, I had a chance to get a 44 auto mag pistol for a fair price. ammo on the other hand was out of this world. also I didn't reload back then. if I did. I would have grabbed it !
Not many places around here have extensive Hesco barriers, so my bet is it’s over there somewhere. So it’s likely we did pay for the ammunition at some point.
Very possible that the barriers are in one of our abandoned FOBs, so more of our tax dollars subsidizing terror activities in another third-world hell hole. But I’m not jaded or anything.
That is an RAF Regiment vehicle. They were in charge of airfield defence and security at Kandahar Airport from 2002 to 2014. They patterned their vehicles like the SAS did during their desert campaign against Rommel (lots of machine-guns) in WW2.
Having seen my share of combat while serving as a US Marine tank commander in Vietnam, this sort of vehicle is really a stupid idea...only for the fact that the "crew" is totally exposed to incoming fire ... and if the opposing forces are equally armed, there is virtually no way that the "crew" can survive. Unless you are looking at "hit and run" perhaps this might work.
They're not going up against anything armored with that. Just Hadjis. NIJ rating of three layers of cotton man-jam, even with crossed bandoleers, is still Level 0.
Even mud walls won't last long against the Pig and GPMG. Anything else standing within 100 miles is concealment, not cover.
Hesco Barriers. Big cardboard boxes line with metal wire as frames to contain dirt piled into it. Easy to transport and build, allowing us to build barriers as walls quickly. Add C wire (concertina wires) up top and they'll function as walls insurgents will have a hard time to climb to get to us.
If you can afford a belt fed in the US. Last I looked a M60 thats transferable was around 60 grand. And that was many years ago. Sold a select fire transferable M1A1, brand new in box ten years ago, got $45,000 plus two handguns. Some of the transferable devices like say a select fire AR lower are some of the most expensive metal known.
I remember seeing quite a lot of trucks like that in the early days of Iraq, part 2. SOF forces had quite a few trucks that were converted local Toyotas or, also common were Toyota Tacomas.
Obviously a third-world “technical” vehicle. US taxpayers probably paid for the ammo one way or another.
ReplyDeleteToyota Hilux is the vehicle of choice for Middle East terrorists/freedom fighters.
DeleteSF had a lot of similar rigs, Afghanistan 2002.
Deleteyears ago, I had a chance to get a 44 auto mag pistol for a fair price. ammo on the other hand was out of this world. also I didn't reload back then. if I did. I would have grabbed it !
ReplyDeleteIsn't that the equipment abandoned a little while back, or AI?
ReplyDeleteNot many places around here have extensive Hesco barriers, so my bet is it’s over there somewhere. So it’s likely we did pay for the ammunition at some point.
DeleteVery possible that the barriers are in one of our abandoned FOBs, so more of our tax dollars subsidizing terror activities in another third-world hell hole. But I’m not jaded or anything.
DeleteThat is an RAF Regiment vehicle. They were in charge of airfield defence and security at Kandahar Airport from 2002 to 2014. They patterned their vehicles like the SAS did during their desert campaign against Rommel (lots of machine-guns) in WW2.
ReplyDeleteToday I saw an ad in the local rag for a 1942 Willy's with mounted functional .50
ReplyDeleteHaving seen my share of combat while serving as a US Marine tank commander in Vietnam, this sort of vehicle is really a stupid idea...only for the fact that the "crew" is totally exposed to incoming fire ... and if the opposing forces are equally armed, there is virtually no way that the "crew" can survive. Unless you are looking at "hit and run" perhaps this might work.
ReplyDeleteThey're not going up against anything armored with that.
DeleteJust Hadjis.
NIJ rating of three layers of cotton man-jam, even with crossed bandoleers, is still Level 0.
Even mud walls won't last long against the Pig and GPMG.
Anything else standing within 100 miles is concealment, not cover.
i would take out a third mortgage to buy ammo. have fun now when you're old, ya can't take it with ya.
ReplyDeleteThere was a MK-19 in a 5-ton turret that had been installed in Hilux at OP Diecy.
ReplyDeleteOk, what are all those tank thing-a-jigs lining the background?
ReplyDeleteHesco Barriers. Big cardboard boxes line with metal wire as frames to contain dirt piled into it. Easy to transport and build, allowing us to build barriers as walls quickly. Add C wire (concertina wires) up top and they'll function as walls insurgents will have a hard time to climb to get to us.
DeleteWell, we've come a long way since I was filling sandbags, shovel in hand, and swatting off centipedes, in Phu Bai.
DeleteDAVE: Amen to that...!!!
DeleteThey make quick berms to contain flooding as well.
DeleteIf you can afford a belt fed in the US. Last I looked a M60 thats transferable was around 60 grand. And that was many years ago. Sold a select fire transferable M1A1, brand new in box ten years ago, got $45,000 plus two handguns. Some of the transferable devices like say a select fire AR lower are some of the most expensive metal known.
ReplyDeleteI remember seeing quite a lot of trucks like that in the early days of Iraq, part 2. SOF forces had quite a few trucks that were converted local Toyotas or, also common were Toyota Tacomas.
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