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Skeet · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: May 15, 2006 Posts: 18

I saw a article about the new USMC Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle. I can't find it now or I would paste a link. In the article, the Marine Corp spokesman emphatically declared this was NOT a 'fighting vechicle'. It's job was to move, and to some extent protect and support, grunts. The grunts were the sword points.

Comments?

BTW - If anybody can find that link, please paste it here.

oldtop · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Mar 17, 2006 Posts: 70

There one thing for sure, the word game is not dead in the Corps, but I don't see how the "spokesman" could say that because the Corps has never learned the differance between a fighting vehicle and a support vehicle. Ya got to remember this is the branch of U.S. armed services that put the Ontos (@#$#@ pigs) in service and then reduced its number of tank companies.

buglerbilly · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 147

Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle

So when is a Fighting Vehicle not a Fighting Vehicle, when it's in the USMC!
Rolling Eyes

WHY would they even bother to make this differentiation when everything that moves in place like Iraq or Afghanistan is a "Fighting Vehicle", at least armour and heavy weapons one time would have indicated so! Cool

Ever so slightly bizarre this one............

Regards,

BUG

Roy_A_Lingle

Hi Folks!

It is to bad that just about all services and builders have to use some fancy name now days.

I would be happy to hear it call an "AMTRACK".

My outdated 2 cents,
Sgt, Scouts Out! Smile

Skeet · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: May 15, 2006 Posts: 18

Geez - I just re-read my post and the comments and laughed out loud. Dunno why the humor previously escaped me of a Military spokesman explaining an Expeditionary FIGHTING VEHICLE was not a 'fighting vehicle'.

Duh?

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