| Submit your comments on this article |
| Home Front: WoT |
| Safer Vehicles for Soldiers |
| 2005-06-26 |
| When Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld visited Iraq last year to tour the Abu Ghraib prison camp, military officials did not rely on a government-issued Humvee to transport him safely on the ground. Instead, they turned to Halliburton, the oil services contractor, which lent the Pentagon a rolling fortress of steel called the Rhino Runner. State Department officials traveling in Iraq use armored vehicles that are built with V-shaped hulls to better deflect bullets and bombs. Members of Congress favor another model, called the M1117, which can endure 12-pound explosives and .50-caliber armor-piercing rounds. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #2 Heh, RD. Why, if we didn't already know better, we might be persuaded to believe the NYT actually cared about the troops. But, alas, they're about as subtle in their BDS dementia as the Rhino Runner would be in suburbia. We all already know it's the US body count that is their real unalloyed focus, their agenda wet dream, their anti-American perversion. This is just a small dig they're floating - to stay in practice. Fuck off, assholes. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-06-26 02:17 |
| #1 The Humvee wasn't originally designed for or procured for the present mission environment in Iraq. The Humvee did quite well taking down Saddam G 2 and in Gulf War 1, missions that they were designed for. etc. etc. NYT, 'nuff said. |
| Posted by: Red Dog 2005-06-26 02:04 |