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Make:NIKON CORPORATION
Model:NIKON D60
Shutter Speed:1/400 second
Aperture:F/7.1
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Date Taken:Jun 11, 2009, 11:08:13 AM

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Truck and Dismountsby ~SlowDownGandhi

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My guys pulling security while our trucks were stopped for a few minutes. Taken near Balad, Iraq while looking for bridges over a canal that needed to be fixed or replaced completely.

~rizzagarde Jul 30, 2009

Somebody backed that Caiman up into something else.

On a side note, the cover over the side windows is an interesting touch. Never saw anything like that when I was downrange.

~SlowDownGandhi Jul 31, 2009 Hobbyist Photographer

Lol, yeah someone definatly hit something. The cover on the side is an attempt to deflect RKG-3s from making direct hits.

~rizzagarde Aug 1, 2009

Huh, interesting idea. I assume it's to catch them and cause them to tumble prior to detonating, in which case the warhead would be pointed away from the hull.

Pretty nifty.

~PathwayToTerminus Jul 12, 2009

I remember seeing those signs. Are they still in use where you are at? We have blue signs on our trucks, now, with no english translation.

~SlowDownGandhi Jul 13, 2009 Hobbyist Photographer

Yeah we still use the signs and pretty much every unit has their own variations of them.

~bobbykro Jul 12, 2009

one big vechicle!

~SlowDownGandhi Jul 13, 2009 Hobbyist Photographer

Lol, you got that right. I was amazed when I first saw them and I feel bad for the guys that have to drive them, they are a handfull.

~SarahLaDuchesse Jul 9, 2009 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

My dad said that if he goes to Afghanistan, that's the kind of truck he'll be driving. It's made for crossing mine fields, and that's why the truck itself is armored and high off the ground

But he better never have to go D:<

~SlowDownGandhi Jul 9, 2009 Hobbyist Photographer

Hopefully he doesn't have to go, but if he does, it's a pretty safe truck.

~SarahLaDuchesse Jul 10, 2009 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

We doubt it, but that's reassuring....ish o.o"
Don't normally young soldiers go to Afghanistan and all those places in the news? And my Dad just turned 46.

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