Word: bradleys
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Iraqi irregulars have tried everything to get at 2nd Brigade soldiers. When two Bradley fighting vehicles got stuck in the mud, dozens of irregulars, armed with a machine gun, tow missiles and a chain-firing cannon, tried to crawl up to them. Another group attempted to paddle across the Euphrates river, shooting RPGs as they approached. Their five boats were blown apart on the water. All of these attacks ended similarly. "It's not a fair fight," says Major Kevin Dunlop. "Trucks with machine guns against tanks and Bradleys can only have one outcome. We are slaughtering them...
Outside, Mitchell links up with Lieut. Robert Carnahan and two six-man squads from White Platoon carrying M16s, heavy SAWs (squad automatic weapons) and 240-Bravo machine guns. Flanking them are three Bradley fighting vehicles. Mitchell, 34, briefs his men that a passing farmer has told a sentry about 10 men sweeping around for an ambush. On his command, the Americans run north through the choking red dust and throw themselves on the ground against a nearby railway track. "Jesus, we can't see s___!" says Carnahan. The squads hold their positions as the bradleys scan the area with thermal...
...swirls like sand devils and then disappears. Sure, kids still pester the troops for candy and water. But the grownups aren't in a hospitable mood. In fact, small groups of Iraqi soldiers, many in plain clothes, are letting the heavy metal pass--70-ton M1A1 Abrams tanks and Bradley troop carriers--and lying in wait for the soft-skinned, lightly armed trucks hauling fuel, food and water. Every day, the journey to Baghdad stretches ever longer as Charlie Rock and other units like it that expected to be on the front line are finding themselves policing a road...
...effective defenses. Having kept most of his military out of Baghdad presumably to guard against a coup, Saddam has entrusted the city's defense mostly to the 15,000-man Special Republican Guard and the Special Security Organization. Those groups are badly outmuscled by the 325 Abrams tanks, 200 Bradley fighting vehicles and 100 attack helicopters soon to bear down on them. The survivors among the defenders, however, along with the Fedayeen, would probably mount persistent ambushes on coalition troops. At a Pentagon press briefing last week, Rumsfeld said that "this terrorist-type threat ... will very likely continue" throughout...
...Soon he was airborne in a Black Hawk screaming toward Samawah at 140 knots. Nearing the town, Barbe saw the secured landing area - a circle of Humvees and Bradley tanks, guns pointed out, a smoke grenade billowed up giving the all-clear for the pilot to set the helicopter down...