Here goes a story.
Our boys where out on MSR Tampa one morning.(MSR: Main supply route)
Tampa is the main highway from Kuwait to Bagdad, 3 lanes in each direction.
(where it is still in order)
Out there they fund a complete truck with a reefer.(trailer with cooling)
The truck stod at the shoulder, engine running, but brake problems.
No load in the trailer, doors wide open.
Blod in the seats, nobody around, gunshot holes in the door, gunshot holes in the brake/air system on the left side.
They searched the cabin and found an ID card, pastport and wallet, no money.
Belonged to a guy from India, employed to a Kuwaity firm, transporting for US Army in Iraq.
This attracted som attension.
A US convoy going south stopped on the other lanes.
A US offiser came over talked to our guys.
OHH, this truck belong to my convoy! he says.
What's it doing here?
A talk trough his convoy told our guy's what had happened:
On the way north, this truck dident go as fast as the rest of the convoy.
Nobody noticed, exept that he moved further back in the convoy.
Eventualy the hummer at the back passed him too.
A couple of miles further he was hijacked because he was on his own.
The hijackers had tried shooting the driver, ending with shots to the brake system so his truck coulden't move any more.
Truck was then emptied during the night.
We never found the driver, not by the road, nowhere around.
He didn't have any radio to tell the rest. The Hummer at the back didn't have control over all the vehicles in the convoy.
And mayby they didn't want to slow down. Who knows?
And most of the US soldiers around are so afraid, they are a danger to them selves and everybody around.
This makes them not think rasionaly, so stupid things like this happends.
And i don't se any morale her.