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<blockquote data-quote="Eatsleeptrap" data-source="post: 482146" data-attributes="member: 7577">The friendly fire can't be blamed on anything but the fog of war, literally, back then.&nbsp; Iraq had all of the American made equipment a US Army mechanized engineer battalion had except Humvees and HEMMT's.&nbsp; We sold it to them in the late 70's or early 80's when they were fighting Iran and we stole parts off of some of it before we blew that shit up.&nbsp; We had a rectangular, maybe 3 foot by 4 foot orange thermal/reflective panel on top of vehicles and a painted white E 22 ^ stenciled on all sides. No one should have expected a guy flying an A10 or Apache a couple hundred or more mph through dark, dirt and smoke to see either of those things, but that was above my pay grade.&nbsp; For us, our own unexploded ordinance was the pain in the ass. Those fucking cluster munitions bomblets dropped like cheap, damp Chinese fireworks, then of course went off when run over by steel M113 tracks. The first time it happened we all thought minefield, after we shit our pants and realized everyone was ok that is.&nbsp; Then whenever we would stop close to an obvious Iraqi used area, we would dismount and clear any bunkers or fighting positions and the damn bomblets were laying around everywhere.&nbsp; Same with blowing up equipment after the cease fire.&nbsp; We moved from one Iraqi unit area to another using one of the first GPS units the size of an A encyclopedia.&nbsp; If it was armor and anything was left we had to break tracks and final drives, engine blocks and main guns.&nbsp; Those damn unexploded bomblets were everywhere.&nbsp; The Air Force and Navy should get their money back from whoever built that shit.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Eatsleeptrap, post: 482146, member: 7577"] The friendly fire can't be blamed on anything but the fog of war, literally, back then. Iraq had all of the American made equipment a US Army mechanized engineer battalion had except Humvees and HEMMT's. We sold it to them in the late 70's or early 80's when they were fighting Iran and we stole parts off of some of it before we blew that shit up. We had a rectangular, maybe 3 foot by 4 foot orange thermal/reflective panel on top of vehicles and a painted white E 22 ^ stenciled on all sides. No one should have expected a guy flying an A10 or Apache a couple hundred or more mph through dark, dirt and smoke to see either of those things, but that was above my pay grade. For us, our own unexploded ordinance was the pain in the ass. Those fucking cluster munitions bomblets dropped like cheap, damp Chinese fireworks, then of course went off when run over by steel M113 tracks. The first time it happened we all thought minefield, after we shit our pants and realized everyone was ok that is. Then whenever we would stop close to an obvious Iraqi used area, we would dismount and clear any bunkers or fighting positions and the damn bomblets were laying around everywhere. Same with blowing up equipment after the cease fire. We moved from one Iraqi unit area to another using one of the first GPS units the size of an A encyclopedia. If it was armor and anything was left we had to break tracks and final drives, engine blocks and main guns. Those damn unexploded bomblets were everywhere. The Air Force and Navy should get their money back from whoever built that shit. [/QUOTE]

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