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Thu Apr-15-04 02:14 AM
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9. This vechicle was designed for amphibious assualt not urban patrols |
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These Marines are very lucky to be alive.
This vehicle was mainly made to get troops from a ship to a shoreline with some measure of safety. It is not really an infantry combat vehicle like the M2/M3 Bradley.
If anything, it is another example of troops not having the equipment they need to do the job at hand. Or maybe an example of using the wrong type of troops for an urban assault/recon mission.
By the way, the old M113 would have been a deathtrap. They rushed the M2/M3 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle into service because the M113 was basically a box on tracks that could not survive on its own.
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