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2016-11-17 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Hezbollah has U.S. armored personnel carriers. But how did they get them?

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Posted by Fred 2016-11-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
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#1 whether the group had pilfered the stocks of the U.S.-supplied Lebanese military

Everybody, except the official USA, knows "Lebanese military" and Hezbollah overlap.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-11-17 03:49|| 2016-11-17 03:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Al Monty Slim's? (Cheech and Chong reference)

Posted by Cheaderhead 2016-11-17 06:17|| 2016-11-17 06:17|| Front Page Top

#3 We go out to resupply areas with the Bedouins and trade for them !

Posted by Goober Wittlesbach5685 2016-11-17 07:14|| 2016-11-17 07:14|| Front Page Top

#4 The M113 is so numerous in the world, they could have almost bought them from a used car salesman.

Plus, they ain't that great. Protects against small arms and artillery splinters, but anything more than a 7.62 will go through the base models. Even the souped up armored ones have a hard time holding back an RPG.

Posted by DarthVader 2016-11-17 09:30|| 2016-11-17 09:30|| Front Page Top

#5 I can tell you that after a couple of fire fights involving .51 heavy machine guns and mortars, most of my unit's 113s looked like Swiss Cheese. You could slam the hatch and enough light came through the holes to read a map.

At least they were better than those crappy flak jackets they gave us and you didn't have to dig a hole AND they had this big old M-2 on top that could rain on everyone's parade

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2016-11-17 11:03|| 2016-11-17 11:03|| Front Page Top

#6 You didn't have to dig a hole?

Posted by Shipman 2016-11-17 13:03|| 2016-11-17 13:03|| Front Page Top

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