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米軍は廃金属で車を固めておるようです。
そのうちいくらかは、壊れたイラク軍の装甲車からの廃金属である可能性が高く、DUで汚染されている恐れがあるのです。
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from: "Jonathan Chowns" <jonathan@t...>
Date: Wed Jul 14, 2004 8:01 pm
Subject: US troops harden vehicles with scrap metal
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これは面白い。明らかに、彼が使用した全ての廃金属がイラクの装甲車から回収されたものではないにせよ、たぶん、そのうちいくらかはそうであり、おそらく、放射性を帯びていると思う。
ハーゲットは、部隊は、初めて廃金属で自らの車を固めた部隊であるという。その試みは、イラク全土に広がった。なぜならば、他の部隊は、アメリカや他の連合国の通過車両を攻撃するために、道路沿いに置かれた、即席の爆発物から兵士を守る道を探していたからだ。彼は、部隊は、８５０の任務を与えられ、全て成功裏に完了したという。
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rom: "Jonathan Chowns" <jonathan@t...>
Date: Wed Jul 14, 2004 8:01 pm
Subject: US troops harden vehicles with scrap metal
I think this is quite interesting- obviously not all the scrap they used would have been salvaged from Iraqi armoured vehicles, but perhaps some of it was, and therefore is probably radioactive.
http://www.picayuneitem.com/articles/2004/07/13/news/01guard.txt
Hargett said A Company was the first unit to harden its own vehicles with scrap metal, a practice which then swept across Iraq as other units sought ways to protect its soldiers from improvised explosive devices that were placed along roads to attack passing U.S. and other coalition vehicles. He said A Company was given 850 missions, all of which it successfully completed.
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http://www.picayuneitem.com/articles/2004/07/13/news/01guard.txt
A Company recognizes those who supported it
A Company and other units of the Mississippi Army National
Guard's 890th Engineer Battalion took Sunday to recognize their families and
communities who supported the unit's members during their deployment to
Iraq.
Lt. Col. Linwood D. Buckalew from the 184th Transportation Brigade
in Laurel and Maj. Joe D. Hargett, who was the battalion's training officer
during its deployment overseas addressed the unit and its assembled guests
Sunday morning at A Company's armory for the recognition ceremonies.
Hargett went over a time line of unit's deployment, including
its Feb. 7, 2003, activation; April 1 move north into Iraq from Kuwait and the
Sept. 12 attack on a convoy that wounded five members. He said that altogether,
six members of A Company received Purple Hearts for wounds received during their
13 months in Iraq.
Hargett explained that he assigned A Company first to
the 3rd Infantry Division, which bore the brunt of the Army's fighting during
the drive to Baghdad, then to the 82nd Airborne, because of unit's demonstrated
abilities. He said A Company also was the first unit of the 890th he sent north
into Iraq.
Hargett said A Company was the first unit to harden its own
vehicles with scrap metal, a practice which then swept across Iraq as other
units sought ways to protect its soldiers from improvised explosive devices that
were placed along roads to attack passing U.S. and other coalition vehicles. He
said A Company was given 850 missions, all of which it successfully
completed.
His primary message for the day, though, was, "Alpha Company,
you're only as good as the families who support you. The real heroes, in a
soldier's opinion, are the ones they left back home."
Following talks by the two colonels, company commander Capt.
Joy Alexander directed the distribution of presents to the company's members,
most of which they were to pass on to family members. Each soldier received an
encased American flag memorializing their activation and deployment.
The
City of Picayune and the Greater Picayune Area Chamber of Commerce also came in
for recognition by A Company.
Nikki Smith, representing the chamber, received a flag mosaic for that organization's support of the unit. Mayor Greg Mitchell received a National Guard statue for the city's support of the unit.