Advanced Warfare?

[Luke Cage]

Well at first IEDs weren't stupid huge and powerful like they were towards the end. The M1114 (I think that was the first uparmored HMMWV) might get its tires blown apart and a door might come off the hinges. Then the EFPs started, then came those huge explosions that would send a Stryker a quarter mile in the air and blow shrapnel for a half mile radius. MRAPs are safer against the initial blast, but secondary effects (like getting bounced around inside the vehicle) and tertiary effects (the vehicle rolling over) were very deadly. As a medic, I never needed a back board or a C-collar until the MRAP came along.

 

Yeah I wasnt out there in the beginning.  By the time I deployed, MRAPs were first starting to see action.  One of ours did get hit (I wasn't in it), and everybody made it but the gunner.  He got crushed.