It's not unusual to see five up-armored HMMWVs driving though our camp, each with radios, machine gunners in the turrets, personnel wearing their uniforms properly to include helmets fastened with chin straps, good dispersion between vehicles, etc.
However comma.....I never thought I see the day when I'd see IRAQIS driving those HMMWVs! If you don't think that's to unusual, then let me tell you what it looked like during Desert Storm. I was a TOW gunner and it was so easy to defeat an entire tank company. All you had to do was hit the tanks or jeeps with antennas and the rest of them would surrender. The leadership never told them what to do if the leaders were killed. They didn't know who was on their left or right, what the final result desired was, where to go if they were getting overrun, etc. They were a ragged bunch of nasties let me tell you. What I saw today is a completely different bunch of soldiers. Of course, we'd still kick their butts if they try to get sassy again
Believe me people, progress is being made! Hopefully this whole thing will be over and we can move on to other countries that need a** beatings. (coughing)Iran(cough, cough)