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LATIFIYAH, Iraq -- Sgt. Joshua Haycox steered our Humvee forward at a slow march, carefully keeping his distance from the vehicle ahead and scanning the road for bombs as the Army convoy pushed ...
Troops in Iraq do their own Humvee upgrades. THE WAR IN IRAQTroops do their own Humvee upgradesThey're adding detection cameras, armor after leaders were criticized for lack of protection.
CAMP VICTORY, Iraq — When Eric Giordano offers to show his war wounds, there’s no need to blush. Shrapnel scars from a February bombing and a deep gouge from a blast in May are on the Army ...
Army Staff Sgt. Tom Davis never saw the bomb that destroyed his hulking Humvee as he rounded a corner in Ramadi just a week into his second tour in Iraq in 2006.
Humvee Crash in Iraq Kills Md. Soldier. Private Had Survived Two Other Incidents. February 17, 2004. By Joshua Partlow. The 19-year-old soldier from Maryland's Eastern Shore, fresh out of basic ...
TIKRIT, Iraq – Soldiers exposed to Iraq’s increasingly lethal roadside bombs, which can rip through armored Humvees, are drawing on wartime experience and stateside expertise to protect their vehicles ...
Plagued by persistent roadside bombs in Iraq, the U.S. Marine Corps is exploring safer tactical-vehicle alternatives to its widely used Humvee. Both the Marines and the Army have outfitted ...
The US State Department has signed off two potential sales to Iraq, one for for M1A1 Abarams tanks and another covering M1151A1 Up-Armored High Mobility Multi-Purpose Wheeled Vehicles, better ...
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Another U.S. soldier died in Iraq on Thursday when the Humvee he was riding in hit a landmine.
It was James' second trip to Iraq. He visited just after the war started in 2003. This trip took a bit of planning, since he had to bring virtually everything needed to build the car.
The Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, the Pentagon's long-awaited replacement for the workhorse Humvee, is at least four years away from full production, Army records show. That's two years later than ...
To help replenish Iraq’s motor pool, the U.S. State Department last year approved a sale to Iraq of 1,000 Humvees, opens new tab, along with their armor upgrades, machine guns and grenade launchers.