GOOD NEW ABOUT HUMVEES M-1114
NICE E-Mail from my Sister son-- a good info about M-1114 humvees---a normal mission and new acronyms
Hey everyone, just thought I would write and tell everyone
that I am allright, it is getting hot over(heat and insurgency) with the heat index it was up to 119 degrees, then with the 40lb IBA vest on, when you take it off , you are covered in sweat. We have been having a couple of long days. Had a VCIED(Vehicle Concealed Improvised Explosive Device)go off the other day in Echo Troops area. A VCIED is a car bomb without an occupant in the vehicle, unlike the VBIED, they come up with new acronyms everyday. Anyway we was out patrolling and we heard it go off and we went to see if anyone needed help, the VCIED went off 10ft from a humvee, I feel better with these M-1114 humvees now. No one got seriously injured in the vehicle, except for their eardrums, but the vehicles armor protected them. The injuries came from the vehicle that was 20ft away, a soldier got schrapnel in his arm. We MEDEVACed him to the hospital in the green zone.
In his speech, Kerry twice claims that democrats' patriotism is being questioned. Rove said nothing about patriotism (or democrats, for that matter) in his remarks. He really knows how to push these guys' buttons!