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Posted by Michael on May 29th, 2005
Michael at A Day in Iraq speaks his mind on the media and the truth.
Michael has an old topic (Up-Armor humvees) that never seems to go away. Doonsbury brought it up again…I don’t know why but here is a small portion of Michael’s rant.
You’ve heard the term “Hillbilly Armor”. I personally think the term sucks. Why make fun of the hillbilly’s. Why not “provisional armor,” or “modified armor,” or “converted armor.” Or how about “appendaged armor,” based on the fact that a few vehicles have had armor appended to them. “Hey, go get that “appendaged armor” humvee ready so we can protect our appendages.” How about improvised? That word seems to be used quite a bit around here. “Hey Michael, we’re taking the “improvised armor” humvee out today.” “Good thinking Sergeant, it will protect us from the improvised explosive devices and the vehicle borne improvised explosive devices.” We could just call it IA, but that acronym is already taken by the Iraqi Army and might confuse some people. “Michael, run over to that IA vehicle and grab some water and MRE’s.” “Sergeant, we both know the IA won’t have any bottled water, and the only thing they’ll have to eat is some pita bread and eggs.” “No, not the Iraqi Army vehicle, the Improvised Armor vehicle.” “Roger Sergeant, I got confused. Why do we have to designate them Improvised Armor vehicles when they do the same thing as any other armored vehicle?” “Well Michael, we wouldn’t want the media back home, who have wrongly determined those vehicles as not worthy of that title, to run a story saying that we were trying to give you any false security.” “Roger Sergeant, God forbid if that ever happened.” This would be better. “Hey Michael, go get that IA vehicle ready to roll, we’re taking it out on a mission today.” “Hell yeah Sergeant, we get to go out in a pick up truck today, that’ll be fun.” “Sorry to ruin your fun Michael, but you know they won’t allow us to go out in anything that isn’t armored.” “Yeah Sergeant, but it sure would be fun to ride around in just a plain, old pick up truck.” Pick up truck, dune buggy, motorcycle, bicycle, whatever, I think a lot of us wouldn’t mind going out in any of those sometime.
And this is how you treat MEN, You tell them the facts, the truth, you don’t try to protect them from the truth. that gets them dead.
It’s nice to know that Biden is worried about my sensitivities. Senator, most of us can handle the truth, so you need not worry about our feelings being hurt.
Michael also has a “hillbilly” bicycle that you need to see the picture of.
Thanks for your service Michael
Semper Fi
Cross Posted at And Rightly So , and Flight Pundit
May 30th, 2005 at 7:36 am
I went over and read his rant…he should get that published somewhere. The MSM isn’t going ever tell the truth, let’s face it. Nope…they focus on the stuff that makes the anti war crowd happy. I wonder if there are any stats that show the different between an UPARMORED vehicles safety record vs. an UN-UParmored vehicle. Will go look later.
Thank you Michael for posting this. You rock.