[piasa]

What are the chances that a rear echelon maintence unit would do that? I mean, those guys were so far to the rear I never would have heard of them, much less see them. If not for bad navigation they never would have been near the fighting.

That's no excuse.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Exactly.

[colorado tanker]

That's no excuse.

I agree. I'm simply offering my explanation as to what I think happened. If I were in command of a rear echelon unit going into Iraq, I'd have 'em as well prepared to defend themselves as the infantry. One problem with the modern American way of war is that we move so fast that there is no longer a well defined rear area.