Chip Sencurry

I presume military vehicles are allowed to be driven like this due to the threat from insurgents?

LiveLeak.com - Humvee Traffic Driving in Iraq


What happened to the guy at 2:10? I'm sure I heard his bones crack

STiFreak

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Arrogant W@nkers ... no wonder people want to blow up those Humvees.

Brun

Agreed ^^^

Tidgy

if you listen you can hear them blasting the horn trying to get through, prob on there way to secure somewhere possibly under live fire.

no what do you think about it?

billythekid

Well needs must and when this video was taken there was a very very high risk of attack, the only good way to avoid this is to keep moving and if there is an attack get out of the kill zone as quickly as you can.

Of course in any normal situation you would not drive like that but if you were doing a high value escort or acting on intel then you dont hang about.

There has now been a big clamp down on PSCs operating in Iraq to try and clean their image up a bit.

billythekid

YouTube - IED CONVOY AMBUSH IN IRAQ

An example of how quickly it happens, taken around the same time.

davegtt

at pushing the bus out of the way, wondered what he was going to do about that bit

rob878

You do know that is Iraq not, a quiet suburb in the home counties?. You don't stop for anything. The next car in front of you that stops could be the one that is being used to set you up for an IED attack as below.

Video of IEDVid - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting

billythekid

Also, not wanting to post graphic material on here but there was a PSC company operating in Iraq at the start (Edinburgh Risk) and they were bumped big time on BIAP and due to poor drills in the first place they were in major trouble. It was all caught on their dash video, a couple of ex british army guys were KIA.