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...Strykers are due to cross the border into Iraq in the coming weeks, but they need some beefing up before they roll. The Army is concerned that the eight-wheel battle wagons are vulnerable to the insurgents' favorite weapon--the primitive but ubiquitous rocket-propelled grenade (RPG). So more than 100 soldiers and contractors have been working virtually around the clock, bolting a 5,200-lb. metal cage resembling a big green catcher's mask around each vehicle. The cage's metal slats are designed to detonate an incoming RPG some 18 in. away from the Stryker, minimizing the round...
...several seconds after the rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) drilled through the back of their armored M113 "battle taxi," the soldiers inside, mainlining adrenaline, continued firing. Then they started screaming. "It blew my leg clean off," says Private First Class Tristan Wyatt, who was standing at the rear of the armored personnel carrier (APC), unloading an M-240 machine gun at a dozen or more Iraqis who had ambushed them minutes before. He was the first to be hit. The RPG then passed through Sergeant Erick Castro's hip, spinning him violently to the floor. His left leg was still attached...
There is horror and there is luck, and in war they sometimes come together. The RPG that severed three legs in a fire fight late last August near Fallujah didn't explode, which probably saved the lives of Wyatt, Castro and Meinen. But even a dud traveling at nearly 1,000 ft. per sec. can slice through limbs like a meat cleaver. The three men were alive, but there was a real danger that they would bleed to death in minutes amid the smoke, dust and confusion. As troops on the two other APCs continued firing, the lone medic among...
...American casualties fluctuate month to month, they're spiking again. On Oct. 6 two U.S. soldiers patrolling outside Baghdad died when a roadside bomb blasted their convoy, and another perished west of the city when his unit was hit. Three days later a G.I. lost his life to an RPG, and two others were killed in Baghdad's turbulent Sadr City when a false cry for help lured their squad into an ambush. Over the next four days, three G.I.s died in separate combat incidents. On Friday three U.S. soldiers and 10 Iraqis died in a fire fight...
...video also shows the aftermath of another RPG attack, on Sept. 11, which destroyed a U.S. semi-trailer and a large transport truck. It shows 50 people dancing by the flames, chanting "we give our blood and souls for you Saddam." A Fedayeen member, his face unshrouded, then shoots the flaming wreck twice with an AK-47. The Anbar branch also claims responsibility for this ambush...