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Got pics of my blowed-up truck!

Remind me to not let you take my truck out for a spin :d.

Glad that things didn't come out any worse than what they did.
 
Man. Stay safe there Guy!

Thanks for your service my friend!

It is folks like you that keep the stars & stripes flying!

I am in your debt!

Rick
Tampa, FL
 
looks familar

I don't know you from Adam, but I wanted to say thanks for putting your life in danger so that I can enjoy the few freedoms I have left. Pics of your ankle look like mine did, only I got mine leaning out on a 10 ft ladder, then gravity took over, no fixin' stupid. At any rate you stay safe and make it home
 
Ankle is doingwell - get to put weight on it for the first time since my injury on the27th! So excited. :D

Thanks for the kind words, everyone - Henry, I'm at Ft Hood right now - be back at Polk soon though!
 
To me, it doesn't look like the blast itself did much damage. The blast threw the truck, but not much else. It must've taken a big load of explosives to throw that 20 ton? truck that distance. The damage was done when the truck hit the ground. Is my assessment correct? If I am correct, someone really did their homework designing it.

Did you say they brought it back and you saw it?
 
Railrunner130 said:
To me, it doesn't look like the blast itself did much damage. The blast threw the truck, but not much else. It must've taken a big load of explosives to throw that 20 ton? truck that distance. The damage was done when the truck hit the ground. Is my assessment correct? If I am correct, someone really did their homework designing it.

Did you say they brought it back and you saw it?
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No, it was totaled for scrap in-country. These are just what I got from my squad leader who got them from someone on scene.

Agreed - all the damage was to the bits that blew off - drive shaft, wheel and hub assembly, storage boxes, parts of the transmission, parts of the diff, fire suppression system, leaf spring and assembly , etc. Nothing, afaik, penetrated into the crew compartment. I hadn't thought about it, but you could be correct in that landing on it's side is what broke off the back armor slab.

Vehicle with the mine roller (the big thing on front) is about 21t without fuel or personnel.

From what I've been told, they estimate the IED to have been around the 100-120lb range.
 
My son sent me a pic of the Humvee he was riding in when it was blown up by an IED in Iraq in 2006. Fatal for the driver (obvious from the blast hole in the floor). I'm sure that incident will occasionally wake my son up at night well into his old age.
 
To give those that don't know some small idea of how big these explosions can be... I have a friend with a son in Iraq. A couple of months ago, Allen was riding in a rather long convoy. A vehicle four miles ahead was hit by an IED. At four miles back, Allen didn't just see and hear the blast, he felt it! The insurgents have graduated to some pretty heavy-duty bomb making. I'm thinking the word "Improvised" needs to be re-thought...
 
Tom Clayton said:
To give those that don't know some small idea of how big these explosions can be... I have a friend with a son in Iraq. A couple of months ago, Allen was riding in a rather long convoy. A vehicle four miles ahead was hit by an IED. At four miles back, Allen didn't just see and hear the blast, he felt it! The insurgents have graduated to some pretty heavy-duty bomb making. I'm thinking the word "Improvised" needs to be re-thought...
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I can vouch that as well.

One night we were babysitting an ANP checkpoint because they'd taken fire every night. Around 2 am a convoy rolled past and we heard the IED and RPGs going off - and it was a few miles away from us. We could also see the light from the explosions.

The IED was felt/heard and the RPGs heard. We drove past the hit site a few hours later - apparently they mistimed the IED and missed the trucks since they went after the last truck. Nobody was hurt and they just kept on trucking.
 
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