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Over all speed might leave much to be desired. But I'll repeat a story my brother told me when he was part of the Marine Corps Detachment in Somalia:
We were along the coast doing manuevers in Humvee's. Before we started, our CO offered fifty dollars to anyone who could bang a Humvee up bad enough to get it to stop working.
First we practiced with D-Day type landing craft. Now we were told to wait until the ramp hit the sand beofre driving off the craft. But as soon as the ramp lowered enough for us to see daylight...We'd gun the engine and ramp 'em.
Then we moved inland a little. And we were plowing into everything in out path. Trees, stone walls, we were even running down camels. But none of us were able to make our Humvee stall, And renedered inoperable.
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