RE: M915A1 Bob-tail
One of my biggest fights in the 80's was with my transportation regiment in getting CONOPS for armoring our medium trucks. It seemed many had their heads in the sand and when I went to Desert Storm I surveyed drivers all over the theater and only a handfull in a hundred knew anything about harding their trucks or even the proper way to disperse on the MSR when coming to a halt.
As a company commander of a medium truck company in the Pittsburgh area we had plans for local steel companies to fab us armor in the event of a contingency. I about went nuts when the Army got mad at the company commander who did this for his trucks before getting deployed it just took too many Soldiers dieing in the trucks for the Army to let units make this kind of protection.
We called it mom and pop armor in 2005 as we were trying to replace all of it with high tech armor kits. Now no vehicle without armor leaves the FOB for any reason.
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David
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