Comments on: Strykers to Afghanistan

By: SGT Carter

SGT Carter — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:11:13 +0000

I hope all of the individuals on here have either ridden in or operated a stryker. Because i have taken the stryker from the Desert in NTC to the Mud-bog of JRTC to the DESERT of Iraq to the training fields of Germany and farm land of germany. The best part is that these were the oldest Strykers in the army. The first ones made serial numbers reading with 02-001. I fought in the battle for Fallujah and for Mosul with the stryker. And we all still love them and will gladly take the stryker and its mobility over the bradley and its ’superior’ protection. IF you have been on the ground fighting, getting your behind handed to you, called for QRF and had to wait hours before they showed up then you must be with a heavy or light brigade. But when the call goes out for strykers QRF you can garuantee a quick turn around to have fire power amassed on target and return home. The Strykers survialability is actually higher than all vehicles in IRAQ ALL VEHICLES. What the TALIBAN can expect from a Stryker unit is to be hunted no longer from the air but now from the ground with strykers running them down going the places where you would not want to go unprotected and faster than you can get there with tanks and bradleys. What Taliban can expect is what the insurgents of Iraq have grown to fear and call the GHOST RIDERS of any STRYKER based BCT. HOO-AHHHH…. GET SOME.

By: sgt reightler

sgt reightler — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:03:42 +0000

yea…… thanks for the confidence booster guys! im there right now….

By: Murdoc Online » LandWarrior Headed to Afghanistan

Murdoc Online » LandWarrior Headed to Afghanistan — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:06:05 +0000

[...] 5th Brigade is the one that had been training for Iraq but was shifted to Afghanistan in February. [...]

By: Murdoc Online » Strykers All Over the Map

Murdoc Online » Strykers All Over the Map — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:09:21 +0000

[...] points out the confirmation of something we were already pretty sure was going to [...]

By: Blacktail

Blacktail — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:03:54 +0000

Want to know how Strykers will fare?

Picture Iraq, where hundreds of Strykers have been either destroyed, or damaged badly enough that they had to be shipped back to the ‘States for a full rebuild… where 200 SBCT troops have been killed (compared to less than 2000 in all other US Armored Vehicle formations in Iraq), and thousands wounded…

…compared to Afghanistan, that was the Stryker’s “honeymoon”.

Now take away the dry weather, paved roads, flat terrain, and moteley crews of insurgents, and replace that with turbulent Steppe weather, mangled dirt roads, undulating valleys with steep slopes and basaltic cinderfields, and 120000+ battle-hardened Taliban.

THAT’S what Strykers have in store for them.

By: jaymaster

jaymaster — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:55:19 +0000

Bram,

Looks to me (on Google maps) like there are some nice roads from Chahabar, to Iranshahr, to Zahedan, then on to Kandahar.

I’d love to see us give that route a try….

By: Bram

Bram — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:23:53 +0000

How the hell are we going to get a Stryker Brigade there as our logistics lines are being shut down?