Report: Confusion played part in Iraq ambush, capture involving Lynch

[HBK]

In my opinion, you shouldn't have to clean a battle rifle as much as the M-16 requires. You just shouldn't have to spend more time cleaning than you do firing. Maybe we DO need a new battle rifle.

 

[QuickDraw]

I'm no Monday quarteback but...
If there were 18 vehicles and 33 soldiers,how come Pfc.Lynch was in a humvee with 3 other soldiers?Why weren't the soldiers broken up in as many vehicles as possible? It would seem to me to offer better protection/backup driver.
And yes,it sure seems that an awful lot of equipment jammed/failed.

QuickDraw

 

[Zip06]

Many errors but Captain King (Unit Commander) seems to be inept. Can't read a map; can't follow a route; doubles back through an ambush; doesn't require his NCO's to check weapons. Soldiers have a right to competent leadership. King ain't it.

 

[Sean Smith]

Based on WHAT, exactly? So far almost everthing about the story reported in the media was wrong.

Here is a hint for the comfy chair critic set: navigating in a trackless desert without a GPS is a nightmare. That's why it's called a "trackless desert," and not, "a friendly place with lots of handy landmarks."

 

[Zip06]

Great theory about the "trackless desert" Smith but the reports I read said that convoy was on a road.

 

[RKCheung]

Actually, the problem was not not having a GPS, but not having a map. Also, yes they were ambushed on a road. The MSR north from Kuwait starts off through the desert (where they actually were tracks to follow) and then transfers onto hardball a bit before An Nasiriyah.

 

[Sean Smith]

I love the internet... how did the Army ever get by without you "experts" embedded behind your PCs to keep them straight?

 

[RKCheung]

Well, Smith, I only base my "expert" opinion based on the fact that I travelled up the same MSR during the war and saw the burned out vehicles where the 507th was ambushed. Don't take my word for it though.

 

[Zip06]

Well Smith since you asked, the Army did not do without me. I retired from the Army with over 20 years service. Got a lot of experience when wearing the uniform.

 

[Duncan Idaho]

Confusion on a battlefield.


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