Took my first ride in an MRAP a few days ago. NICE. PIECE OF. GEAR. Me like. It’s got a nice comm package, and with the headphones I could listen to the convoy freq as well as the convoy’s freaks. Because Kabul is the famous kite-flying city (if they ever figure out how to rig a bomb on a kite, we’re fucked) this particular unit begins each run with some poor SPC getting tapped to belt out a stanza from the let’s-go-fly-a-kite song in Mary Poppins. I shit you in the negative, I heard with my own two ears and I laughed my ass off. Good troopers, and dialed in too.
As we were rolling down the roads of greater metropolitan Kabul, it occurred to me that the MRAP would make almost the perfect bug-out vehicle for the well-prepared civilian. Hmmmm… I wonder if MDL would go in with me, 50/50? :-)
