Yeah, glad to hear you are ok. I have a lot of respect for you guys.

 

If anyone had been sitting in the back right seat it would have been a different story. It was just me driving and a gunner. Everyone had dismounted to check out something (usually I was a dismount but the driver had to stay back at the house for something) and we were just moving closer to the dismounts. Next thing you know, boom, most of the rear end gone. The gunner was almost thrown out but all he got was some bad bruising and cuts, that was it.After this, unless we were going more than like 6 miles, we walked everywhere and stayed off the roads.

 

That looks pretty bad. I never had that problem, just a few random bullet holes going down the back side of mine. I did see that happen 3 trucks in front of me though, was one of my guys. That one didn't turn out so well. You know, the risk of that or anything else happening over there pales in comparison to giving the flag to the family. I hope that if you haven't already that you don't ever have to experience that one.

 

they have videos of hmmwv's running over land mines in the middle-east on youtube/google, its pretty disturbing to watch that someone was waiting (and filming) for the soldiers to run over it.

 

i'm sure they were saying "allah akbar" as well

 

here is one example (i think you can only watch if you have a youtube account (because its flagged inapropriate)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bSNY0tNnHw8

they are saying "allah akbar" what exactly does that mean?

 

it means God is great

 

I put a comment on there and told them to *** off!

 

opps, somebody didn't like my comment. They deleted it.

So I flagged them as inappropriate, let's see if anything happens.

 

its already been flagged innapropriate, now you can only see it if your a member and you confirm your birthdate and it wont show up in searches if your not a member.