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CSM Charles Hayden
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It looks like to an extended wheelbase Dune Buggy!
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SSG Eddie Helmling
SSG Eddie Helmling
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looks like M998 with fewer body panels
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1LT William Clardy
1LT William Clardy
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That's the flow-through air-conditioning added as a mid-life crisi... er, product-improvement program, SSG Eddie Helmling!
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CPL Douglas Chrysler
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When described as "lightweight" does that mean less armor to protect against roadside explosives?
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1LT William Clardy
1LT William Clardy
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Don't laugh too loudly, SGT Eric Knutson. Most of those pictures were of Marines doing some holiday socializing at a little place called Hue.
And for you young-uns who think that a M274 doesn't offer much protection, I offer this classic perspective from another infantryman:
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SGT Eric Knutson
SGT Eric Knutson
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1LT William Clardy - Bill Muldoon, I have his collected works in book form, and he was from just up the road here in New Mexico
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1LT William Clardy
1LT William Clardy
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SGT Eric Knutson, I think I first read "Up Front" when I was still in grade school. I'm very guilty of inflicting Bill Mauldin's work on young and impressionable would-be Army leaders.
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SGT Eric Knutson
SGT Eric Knutson
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1LT William Clardy - yes, thank you for correcting my spelling of his name, I do HAVE the coffee table book, but it is in a file cabinet not a coffee table at this time. But he did have a way of putting timeless truths into a funny format, and make you think as well as laugh
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SSG Jeffrey Leake
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It looks high speed and all, but no thank you.
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