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ll description is "Cost - $10,000 damage to HMMWV. 2 NCO's held financially liable. 4 Article 15s. Letters of reprimand."

@choggie was about spot on.

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>> ^NordlichReiter:
Was this blowing the weapons in place? I'm just wondering, I was under the impression that they do not do that any more, especially with non combatants in the area.

I'm not 100% familiar with how they're currently handeling it, but that's the way it was done when I was there. IED's were normally detonated on the spot after the area was cleared. There is always the possibility of a trigger man watching the area, so I don't remember IED's ever being moved from their location. I had a bunch of videos of EOD detonations shot throughout the deployment. People regularly film this stuff from HMMWVs further back in convoys. Unfortunately that hard drive is destroyed and I lost a lot of pictures and clips. Some Iraqis would actually stand as close as possible because they wanted to watch the explosions. I remember one video where they did have to delay the detonation because people kept getting too close to the area and had to be moved back. Usually EOD would call out a warning and a countdown from a loudspeaker before actually detonating though... didn't hear that in this one.

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Awesome bit about the guy that asked the HMMWV question about the scrap metal...

Fuck. I mean... just fuck.
When I was in Iraq, I was a cannoneer, and our howitzer was directly in front of the heli-pad.
We hated helicopters with a passion. They would fly in, blow sand everywhere, be so loud you couldn't hear the guy next to you, and blow down everything you had up. We would curse the whole time they were there. But some helicopters we could only stand still and silent for.
Day after day, I would see a HMMWV ambulance would drive up to the pad and wait for a BlackHawk helicopter with a big red "+" painted on it. They would then offload one or a few Marines to be taken to a hospital, likely to be sent home for good. I always felt sad, but in a way, I was happy that they would be going home.
Then there were the days that HMMWV ambulance would drive up and would have twice the usual Marines standing there than normal, and a CH-46 (Chinook) would fly down.
We all knew that could only mean one thing.
From the HMMWV they would pull out one or more stretchers, covered in American flag, and would load it onto the Ch-46, trying to keep the rotor wash from blowing the flag away revealing the body bag beneath.
I don't think that there was anything harder than watching that.
Almost three years later and I still get watery-eyed at news reports like this. Thanks for the good sift, Calvados.

Thanks, joe.

I mean, I've seen some damn big ones before, but holy hell. That might as well have been a nuke.
I'm just trying to figure out where it came from - it almost looks like it came from the middle of the road - but burying that amount of ordinance in the road is quite a feat - and surely the soldiers/Marines would have noticed the fresh pavement/signs of recent roadwork.
Before you deploy you have to sit through a class on IEDs - how to recognize them and what to do.
Not fun. They (insurgents) may not be the best trained, but they are hella crafty. It used to be just a 155mm shell in a trash bag in a pile of rubble on the side of the road. From there they moved them to hanging on the back side of guard rails. Then they started to put them in culverts under the roads. When that got old, they would actually take out a section of curb, put in a shell, and form a new seamless curb around it. The point being is that anything can be an IED. And they have no regard for human life, so you aren't safe even if you're in the middle of a crowded town. That's when I was the most scared - on patrol and when the traffic gets so slow you have to walk along side of the HMMWV. (Yeah, memorare, I was fucking there. Not just Kuwait.) From there, it's extremely difficult to see if anyone around has a weapon. So not only I had to worry about getting my ass blown off, there was increased possibility of it getting shot off, too.

All in all, I'm just glad to have made it back in one piece, but it saddens me every time I see a clip like this.

Well, dag, satire aside, have you heard of the Active denial System? It's a device mounted to a HMMWV(Humvee)that emits a "pain ray" of microwaves. It causes the skin to get really hot, really fast. But when the target moves out of the area of effect, the skin is immediately cool again.

It's all fun until the Motor T chief finds out what you did to his HMMWV and sends your ass to the brig for misuse and destruction of gov't property, conduct unbecoming, disobedience of orders, and whatever else he can think of.

What you're thinking of is the reactive armor used on tanks. They do not install that type of armor on a HMMWV.