re: Striker APV?

["Tim McCarty" <sunk99-at-msn.com>]

>WJ Wrote:  I haven't looked much on the internet much, but I am wondering 
>if you guys know a vehicle called a Striker.  My father is in Baghdad now 
>and sees these vehicles all the time, he is going to bring back lots of 
>pictures for me, but maybe you guys can help me out already :)

Sorry to here your Dad is in that mess.  My son and a large number of my 
friends and employees are also deployed there.  Yesterday was my son's 22n'd 
birthday.  His unit spent the day in a firefight.  Late last night his 
buddies make him a candle lit MRE and wished him HB.  I hope he got the 
bottle I sent him to celebrate  a tad better.  He's a Marine and very proud 
of it - for being a jar head.  His ole man has been with the Army since the 
mid-70s.  I'm a civilian though - thank God.  In our line of the buisness we 
can still get deployed though.  Thankfully I'm an old buzzard and let the 
young people enjoy the sun all they wish.  :)

On a better note regarding your Stryker question.  That's with a Y for the 
vehicle.  Striker with an I is a missle system mounted on a HMMWV.  My 
office, not my team, manages both.  Stryker is the newest Army Cav vehicle 
that is supposed to replace the Bradley - in like a billion years.  Bradley 
was supposed to replace the M113 which is also still around by the gobs.  :)

Styker is wheeled, lightly armored, and lightly gunned.  It's built in 
Canada near Toronto.  It looks a lot like like the Marines LAV.  Of course 
we Grunts and Jarheads couldn't agree on a standard design.  We also manage 
the LAV for the Marines.  They fielded the Styker at Lewis a few years back, 
replacing their Abrams, which didn't make the Heavy Armor is king bunch with 
a good feeling.  A tank will kick a Stykers butt.  But their mission 
changed, as has some many others, to not fighting other heavy mech forces to 
rather fighting light cav or grunts only stuff - hello Iraq.  Here's a 
website:  http://www.army.mil/features/stryker/

Wishing your Dad the best as well as for all our folks in harms way.  They 
are just doing their duty.

TimMc
Bradley/MLRS

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