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#84555 - 01/31/07 05:21 PM How to drive in a wartime environment...
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Ever wanted to know how to drive in a wartime environment? After all getting stopped makes yourself a target, so you just gotta keep going ....right?
Well, here's a video instructional driving course, just for you! Straight from our friendlies in their hummers over in iraq <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

http://news.windingroad.com/videos/video-how-soldiers-drive-in-iraq/

This video is awesome. Obviously it's not intended as an instructional video but boy you sure learn something (like not to stop in front of a hummer).

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#84556 - 01/31/07 05:42 PM Re: How to drive in a wartime environment...
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I wonder if they make an after market cow-catcher / ramming bar for my SUV? Drop it into 4WD-Low and evacuation traffic jams can be a thing of the past... <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
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#84557 - 01/31/07 09:50 PM Re: How to drive in a wartime environment...
garland Offline
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Nothing like giving a bus a 'get outta my way' love tap.
Just buy some bully bars and slap em on there. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

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#84558 - 01/31/07 11:09 PM Re: How to drive in a wartime environment...
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Thanks for passing along that link. That is some serious traffic over there! <img src="/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />


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#84559 - 01/31/07 11:17 PM Re: How to drive in a wartime environment...
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Registered: 11/25/06
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Loc: MA
Before I even watch this, I recall an episode on a national guard unit over there, driving down some street in Fallujah, and, every now & again, you would hear rifle fire, then the gunner would stick his head down into the HMMWV (he was in the turret) and yell "WARNING SHOT!" It happened like 5 times, & was hilarious!

EDIT: Ok, after watching this, you gotta say, there are some SERIOUSLY bad drivers/pedestrians there. I mean, a big truck, honking its horn, coming up behind you, and you gotta wait to get bumped? I like the "shoot them, they'll move" strategy better. One hears gunshot, they ALL react.


Edited by oldsoldier (01/31/07 11:21 PM)
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#84560 - 02/13/07 01:45 AM Re: How to drive in a wartime environment...
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Reminds me of something related. Which is an all round Best Way to Flee someone Pursueing you with a Pistol or Handgun. I've so read to do so in something of a Zig Zag fashion. While of course also increasing your Distance from your Persuer. Combined with the increasing Inaccuracy of such a shot with increasing Distance, -this Method Best Maximizes your Chances of Avoiding and Evading such a shot!

Also, -if say in a parking lot, -Coupling this with a Zigzagging between parked Vehicles, -would also come in Helpful and Handy.

(And remember the News Clip from a few years ago, -of the guy in a Suit and Tie, -Dodging Close Range Gunshots from behind a conveniently placed Tree!?)(I remember this as occurring during the Leadup to Gulf War Two. And wondering what saadam hussein would be thinking of it. Still in Power, -Chances are reasonably likely he saw such footage). [color:"black"] [/color] [email]ScottRezaLogan[/email]
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#86817 - 02/27/07 04:37 AM Re: How to drive in a wartime environment... [Re: garland]
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All that traffic. Where do they get the gas. Oh, I forgot...

I hope the driver can make the transition to US traffic real fast when he/she gets home, or I see a lot of trips before the judge...
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