22 soldiers injured in M50 crash

whassupp2 · 19-03-2008 05:53PM

I was in one of these trucks before. The journey was about 45 mins long and i came out battered and bruised. I could not believ that in this day and age that thes trucks were still being used to transport soldiers.

Manic Moran · 19-03-2008 10:55PM

Well, Ireland can't afford to buy any more APCs, so what would you suggest?

Trucks tend to be a little more capable for military purposes than 30-seat busses, after all.

NTM

RoyalMarine · 19-03-2008 10:59PM

maybe now willie o D will be forced to buy the mowag's for everyone and get rid of these trucks.

to be honest, ive been on them a few times and they are a hazzard.

return guide · 19-03-2008 11:07PM

RoyalMarineComm wrote: »

maybe now willie o D will be forced to buy the mowag's for everyone and get rid of these trucks.

to be honest, ive been on them a few times and they are a hazzard.

Now behave, to put APCs on a major road just to transport a section or so,
why?

meathstevie · 19-03-2008 11:09PM

Those trucks mightn't be the hight of comfort but there's a reason for the configuration of them. Imagine the passengers are all wearing seatbelts say somewhere in Kosovo. Some Albanian or Serb lunatic with a medium-heavy machine gun decides to open up on one of these trucks..by the time the seatbelts would be of everyone in the truck would be dead or wounded.

Run_to_da_hills · 19-03-2008 11:20PM

meathstevie wrote: »

Those trucks mightn't be the hight of comfort but there's a reason for the configuration of them. Imagine the passengers are all wearing seatbelts say somewhere in Kosovo. Some Albanian or Serb lunatic with a medium-heavy machine gun decides to open up on one of these trucks..by the time the seatbelts would be of everyone in the truck would be dead or wounded.

I don't think you are going to get someone shooting at a truck full of Irish troops with a heavy machine gun on the M50 :rolleyes: I say put them in busses, Cie have plenty of old busses that could be painted up in olive drab and donated to them.

Manic Moran · 20-03-2008 03:40AM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

I don't think you are going to get someone shooting at a truck full of Irish troops with a heavy machine gun on the M50 :rolleyes: I say put them in busses, Cie have plenty of old busses that could be painted up in olive drab and donated to them.

And who pays to have them serviced and maintained? Or to have soldiers trained in their servicing and maintenance, and even to go to bus-driving school? What you're asking for is an additional fleet of vehicles that the DF doesn't need to fulfil its function, but is an increased drain on its resources. DF have one or two coaches (For the band mainly, I think), but that's not as much a resource as fitting out enough busses for an entire Army to use, even on a centrally dispatched basis.

NTM

entropi · 20-03-2008 08:30AM

mkdon05 wrote: »

i (friend of a friend) know one of the lads driving one of the trucks, said there was some bones protruding from the skin.

My little bro was supposed to be going with those lads on their training exercise at the time that happened, turns out he was sent home from The Curragh earlier than expected, and the lads injured were from his barracks, Cathal Brugha.

The worst injury sustained was apparently only a dislocated shoulder...

20-03-2008 12:12PM

Manic Moran wrote: »

Well, Ireland can't afford to buy any more APCs, so what would you suggest?

Trucks tend to be a little more capable for military purposes than 30-seat busses, after all.

NTM

Would be quite funny though. The irish army turning up for war in a fleet of mini-buses.

22 soldiers injured in M50 crash

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