just givin an update on a news article

bearmedic · **Posted:** Sun Feb 03, 2008 11:44 am

I dont know if any of you read the story some of the military members might have, About 10 days ago a story was wrote int he new york times and the stars and stripes and abc news press about a military vehicle called the mrap that was hit by an ied and had its first kia a guy named richard buress.
Unfortunately that was my vehicle and he was my gunner, i just want every one to keep his wife in daughter in their prayers, he was a pretty outdoors type of guy and liked campning and canoeing, he was gonna look at a liberty for his wife when he got home or so he told me cause he thought mine looked decent. But the other two soldiers who were in it with me are fine and safe back with their families in the states.

Jeep4me99 · **Posted:** Sun Feb 03, 2008 11:52 am

sad thing to hear. we will definately keep his family in mind, along with all the others out there protecting us. Thanks for everything you do, and glad to hear you are safe :!:

Fulltimer · **Posted:** Sun Feb 03, 2008 12:07 pm

We will be remembering them also. I assume you are ok? Take care and keep your head down.

Terry

JJsTJ · **Posted:** Sun Feb 03, 2008 2:59 pm

Man that sucks. Sad to hear of another loss or any more for that matter.

Stay safe!

bearmedic · **Posted:** Sun Feb 03, 2008 5:01 pm

yeah i got out safe i hada aceration on my nose where an ammo can hit me (well we think that is what hit me) and a few tore muscles in my back, ill have to find the article online and put a link in here
drew

C co Crusader 2/127 · **Posted:** Sun Feb 03, 2008 6:21 pm

well im along with everyone else so far. I glad your for the mostpart unscathed. It definatlly a tough thing loosing another joe. Thats just the name of the game though. During my first deployment we lost 3 guys; all of which were to IED's. All we had were 1114 Gun Trucks. The darn things couldny stop a soda can let alone an IED. An an MRAP is a class of vehicles not model. There are so many different versions of the things so im not going to give any real information on specific models except for the ones that i have personaly used. Ive ony used 2 for certin missions while i was deployed. those are the 1117 AVS. Which im assuming is what you were in bear because their the biggest contract holder for the class 1 MRAP. I hated the thing. It was entirely too long. Couldnt turn worth a SH*T, had absolutly no visabitity of any kind. An opposite how it looked; was very vulnerable to attack. the other vehicle was a stryker. Enoght said; the thing is awsome as long as you dont roll it. I started doing a lot of research through work; after i got home; about these things because we were working on 3 different models for the army and marine corp. their only suppose to be a temporary replacement for the aging HMMWV that just cant hold up to an attack. All the different models have only one thing in common. The have a "V" shaped hull that is suppose to deflect and absorb an IED blast instead of just trying to stop it. I guess the avs only has one layer of armor around the engine compartment...... which the driver and tc sit right on. Its full of little holes like that. And no matter what your ridong in unless its an m1-a1 the gunner unfortunatlly has the lowest survivability out of the entire crew. Most of the companys; key word most; tote these thing as impervious to a blast or darn close to it. They fail to mention that until just recently none if the trucks tested passed over 70 percent of the testing it was put through. There is one that did. Now im not toting who i work for but oshkosh truch made one. Its called the bull. An it passed all testing. thats al im going to say because thats all that really matters. I feel for ya man i really do. Its really hard to loose a friend and brother. An hopefully this next year when im back in the sand I dont get stuck with some of the POS trucks rolling around right now. An possibly ill run into the little turd that built the IED and break his jaw if he decided he doenst want to shoot.

pinevillekj · **Posted:** Sun Feb 03, 2008 7:20 pm

Stay safe Bearmedic... and big thanks from cajun country for your service!

bearmedic · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:47 am

well we since we are route clearance roll with alot of the "MRAP" class vehicles like rg-31's 33's but the one we were hit with looks like a international box truck
heres the link http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,1 ... 60,00.html the vehicle shown in the pic is the style i was in. heres another link same basic story but another view of the vehicle
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wir ... id=4169208[/url]

Cowcatcher · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2008 11:04 am

Sorry for your loss Bearmedic. Keep your head down!

Jeepman56 · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:14 pm

All of our best to the family of your friend, to you, and to the brave soldiers.

C co Crusader 2/127 · **Posted:** Tue Feb 05, 2008 12:58 am

thats the international version. we tore one apart to see what ours(oshkosh truck) had better or worse. and the thing is junk.

bearmedic · **Posted:** Tue Feb 05, 2008 4:04 am

what they really need to do is on tall vehicles like that mount a crow type gun system so the gunner can still be down in the vhicle but hey 300lbs is what we ran over and it didnt breach the passenger compatment to bad

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