Why America is Gladly Giving Away their $50 Billion Truck

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As a Sapper route clearance team leader in Baghdad in 2006-2007 I can tell you first hand the V hull saved just about all of my joes lives. We didn't have the new MRAPS but old school RGs (from South Africa) and Buffalos. The hits they took and we walked away from was absolutely incredible. Our Buffalo once took a 400lb HME hit directly under the hull...ripped all 3 axles off and flung the thing about 50 feet but we all walked away. Any other style truck was a death trap. My team alone cleared about 300 IEDs with about 50 hits, lots of concussions and a gunner took some shrapnel to the face but no KIA.

I deployed to Afghanistan in 2012 with war photographer Mike MaCleod attached to my battalion (2-504, 1st Brigade of the 82D). It was cool to see at one of his photos (at 8:46)...I think this was our Alpha company. This was up near Ghazni, out of FOB Arian. The MRAP definitely saved my ass; my squad was in an RG-33 when we got hit with a 40-60 kilo command det IED placed at a constriction point, a hairpin turn. It was the first no-casualty IED in the battalion. I thought we had run into a tree, the impact was so slight. Our gunner had a bit of a headache, but no one was really hurt even though we found pieces of our engine like 300 meters away. In Iraq in 2012 we had one get utterly perforated by an EFP, but we were running skeleton crews and miraculaously none of the three people aboard got hit directly. That was a Cougar, I think. We had a random hodgepodge of Alligators, Cougars, RG-33s, just whatever the motor pool could get running at the moment.

I made a lot of doors for these in fairfield Ohio. I was working for BAE SYSTEMS and we worked 24 hours a day 7 days a week. They gave us all the overtime we wanted. Best welding job i ever had.

I was an army infantryman between 2008 to 12 and did 15 months in Iraq. When we deployed we switched out our Bradley's for mine resisted ambush protected vehicles, or mrap it was the first military vehicle I rode in that actually had working a/c

As an Iraq combat infantry veteran.... These mraps/kmans on my 2nd deployment performed extremely well and resisted mines/IEDs. Saved multiple lives in my platoon alone.

Any veteran will tell you hitting 50 mph in an up armored Humvee is like re-entering the earths atmosphere in a space shuttle. The transmission is burning your calf hair off, everything is violently shaking, lights are flashing, the radios going off but you can't hear what's being said, and you can barely maintain control of the pencil thin steering wheel. all in all, a very memorable experience.

I drove the casspir in both urban riot and rural environments and can confirm that they were excellent in both applications. The earlier models had canvas roof coverings before petrol bombs necessitated a steel roof addition.

Wow, after reading a lot of comments from combat vets, MRAPS are the A-10 of ground vehicles. Service Chief and the Pentagon wants to get rid of or retire them, but the dudes on the ground still appreciate them. So many in the comments attribute their survival in Iraq/AFG to the MRAP. Powerful stuff.

Those trucks are nice. They have a great protection from mines. There are videos already where Ukrainians hit mines in MRAPs and survive. When Americans provided lend lease to the Soviets, one of the most important things Americans have given were the Studebaker trucks that basically carried the Soviet Army west to victory.

I had a stripped down humvee in iraq , traded armor for speed , worked out but I wont lie , those were some pretty anxious rides Thanks Cappy

A lot of people have problems with police using military equipment, but the issue is police accountability. We need our elected representatives to hold our law enforcement agencies accountable when they do something wrong.

I directly worked on the entire MRAP program. From systems integration, prototype and development of C4ISR to ECM and tactical combat systems. Wrote over 75 OM and TM manuals for numerous platform variants. It was and honor to support our US Military Warfighters.

Cappy, I was a Marine In Iraq in 2006 and saw the MRAP drama unfold! You did a tremendous job explaining the issues surrounding the USMC's acquisition and fielding of the MRAP. I really do like your videos and I recommend them to all my friends.

MRAPs were pushed to the line when I was on it. I'm 100% certain that MRAPs played a key role in me living through 15 months in Afghanistan.

These vehicles saved many lives and improved mounted patrols, QRF, route clearance & troop transport. That said, I believe that there wasn't nearly enough forethought in finding ways to offload these vehicles (in addition to other equipment scrapped, destroyed & left behind) at the end of the wars.

As a South African I love seeing our equipment on the international stage. The Casper was controversially used by our police during riots in Apartheid as well.

MRAPS saved my life twice. MATV saved my life once. Had I been in a humvee for either incident most of me would still be in Afghanistan.

I served from 2013-2018 as a black hawk mechanic and our unit still had humvs from the 90’s. Never even saw a single mrap on a army base.

As ex-South African military I remember our vehicles well. They perform brilliantly if used for the purpose they were specifically designed for : low-intensity counter-insurgency warfare. The problems start when you try and use them for anything else.