EFP (Thought it was an IED. Wrong. )

[iflickuoff]

efps are dirty little bastards

[sptt6]

@iflickuoff Yes they are. Lost 3 of my Teammates.

[branziem]

@sptt6 wats the safest job to do, walk and shoot, or fly an apache

[sptt6]

@branziem Either way, there are pro's and con's. If it's meant for you, then no matter how careful you are....IT will find you if it has your NAME on it. Be safe buddy.

[sptt6]

@branziem Either way, there are pro's and con's. If it's meant for you, then no matter how careful you are....IT will find you if it has your NAME on it. Be safe buddy.

[BloodyHarrow]

I love how your convey just ditched you, lol I know that's not in your procedures

[sptt6]

@BloodyHarrow I guess you are NOT in the military. SOP states: You will continue to get out off the "kill zone" and drive about 1000- 2000 meters. BUT, you already KNEW that since since my Convey??---spelled CONVOY .(you are dumb and cant spell plus you don't do your homework before you comment) Have you served in the war? Keep your comments to yourself and SHUT the F**K up you moron!!!!

[sptt6]

@BloodyHarrow Just be thankful that WE are here to keep you and your family safe at night. Can you do that? Simple request.

[sptt6]

@Tr1m0X - the entire team made it out. In frame 18:00 you can see that 2 of the plates hit the right rear of the glass in the turret and the right rear window of the rear passenger. the 3 hit the right wheel and went thru to the left wheel destroying the entire rear axle. It WONT go thru glass but it ill melt thru steel. Go figure.

[Jiggyshrooms]

i didnt know that 2 spark plugs inside a metal box with a wood cover actually jams your retarded dude this video shows your rolling with jammers uptop and your spacin is to close so their wasnt a breach in your range unless somebodys shit wasnt on or working properly ...looks like a command det and the overhead walk way was used for line of sight

[sptt6]

@Jiggyshrooms At age 22, you are still Young, Naive and sometimes don't know what you are talking about. All of a sudden you are the 'Expert' here huh? Did you know that the Rhino actually works?!! It has save countless lives and has premature detonated IED / EFP's and saved everyone of us. Yes all our shit (Rhino) were working. If 1 of then wasn't working, then the mission was cancelled and we didn't go out the wire. End. Part 1 of 3

[sptt6]

@Jiggyshrooms What do you know about spacing? (another 'expert' advice) The insurgents "adapted' to our fighting and driving techniques so to deter that we were ordered to "keep them guessing" The Rhinos were NOT uptop, they were deployed down. Uptop is when the Rhino is tilted up. God your good. Of course it was 'command detonated' The insurgents 'knew' that the Rhino works and didn't want it to premature detonate their EFP. Your really good. END Part 2 of 3

[sptt6]

Part 3 of 3: Of course they used the overhead walk way for LOS. That is why they used that spot. Gosh you are smart man. I got to show your reply to my teammates. They are going to get a laugh out of this. Thanks for the laugh kiddo. We could always use one. Your welcome retard,

PS. Got a CIB? What the f##k  have you done with your life lately.

[DuffmanIRL]

How many guys didn't survive a situation like this? And for what?

[sptt6]

@DuffmanIRL Everybody survived and for what? For people like you who sleep safely at night while rough men like us are called to defend your ass and your great family. A simple Thank You would do just fine. If not, then keep your replies to yourself you ungrateful, selfish person.

[QuietProfessionals]

yes same place

[hovito212]

ahhhh how i love route pluto, and gold, and coppers west, and grizzlies

[EricCris10sen]

God damn. EFPs are some of the nastiest things to go through

[sptt6]

@EricCris10sen- Especially if it does go thru and decapitates everyone inside.

[xXxSkiLarxXx]

what is an EFP?

[sptt6]

@xXxSkiLarxXx Explosive Formed Projectile. A copper plate that when detonated with explosives turns into a hot molten dart that penetrates steel NOT glass. Go figure.

[sptt6]

@sptt6 See video "The largest Cache of EFP (explosives) found yet!! by 3rdID8487 You will see the different sizes of copper plates used on us.

[Elpha22]

Dude, I've been so lucky to get hit on Pluto. I was outta Rusty 06-08. Also Rusafa JSS

[wolviechick121]

hope you all were ok we weren't so lucky hope you are out there still kickin

[undecided8713]

correct me if i'm wrong but i just read the Good Soldier, and i see I know they had a route pluto, and there FOB was in Rustamiyah. tha book was mainly about the 2-16th, but is this the same area as the book?

[sptt6]

We were only 5 minutes out from FOB Rusty. That's SADR City to my right.

[sptt6]

Same one buddy.

[dgk9448]

EFP are worse too.

[thundersptt39]

Dang if I had a dollar for every time I was at that spot on Pluto. Was on 3-3 SPTT out of Rusty.

[joblo1978]

I've been there hundreds of times. That's not far from the JSS

[ssgbull]

pluto was a deathtrap bar-none, we stayed way clear of it would cut through rasheed airbase to get to karradah.

SSGBULL OIF 06-07

[riverdave7]

god blees them and the frag 5

[sptt6]

Thanks.

[marquezolivas]

cant stay off plutos.. u know it.. and hell i hate Brewers... its still the same... these guys were lucky.. so were we

[sptt6]

Julio. We did not have a choice. Straight thru SADR CITY, Baghdad from FOB Rustamiyah to work with the Iraqi National Police. It sucked but you did have to like what you did.....you just had to do it...........

[sptt6]

Didn't have a choice. Not to many routes to work.

[chavez2d]

that is so messed up man. God Bless our troops who are out there everyday.

[OrbitusXpandeR]

seriously, when the hell are they gonna learn to stay the hell off of plutos

[dkmebeyou]

Respect , God Bless each and everyone of you .

Come home safe .

[sptt6]

@dkmebeyou Thank You we are all safe back with our families.

[HurfinDurfin]

So, why is the Humvee going so slow? Did the EFP damage the Humvee to make it do that?

[sptt6]

yes it did.

[sptt6]

It damaged the HMMWV to my front and the front of my vehicle

[kronicskater321]

if you could star over and choose any occupation in the army, what would it be?

[sptt6]

@HurfinDurfin It damaged the engine. I was flooring the pedal but it would go any faster.

[Ome99]

That jammer at the humvee's front obviously didn't work!

[riverdave7]

rhino?

[sptt6]

It's called a Rhino. The enemy adapts to new equipment. They just did an "Instant ON" when we got close enough. By that time it's to late.

[alimavee]

if any one of the SPTT there i just want to say hello we had some good and bad times.

and rusty is going th the iraqi side..

am going to miss these days

(maverick)(SPTT HQ is THE BEST)..

[tshepee]

servis53 god bless you and your son.

[kiddcody2001]

yep sure looks like two efp plates, ur lucky as hell God bless ya!!!

[gruntshit11b30]

jesus stay the fuck off of plutos i worked that shit for 14 months stay off of there

[utuberssuk]

No shit, pluto going to rusty and brewers going to to our sector, where the scariest fucking roads ever.

[alimavee]

dod i worked with the panthers for 3 years..

mavrick the terp

[servis53]

My son was killed by one of those

[GHOSTSHADOW1]

sorry to hear about that

[chingy3227]

i am happy to hear that

[SayParallel]

Sorry to hear about your son.

May God bless his soul.

[marmaladekamikaze]

May he rest in peace.

[suprstng6]

ya, that stuff sucks. We posted ours also when we got hit on RTE Jackson heading back to FOB Falcon. Glad everyone's alright

[suprstng6]

ya, that crap sucks man, I posted mine too from both points of view when we got hit on RTE Jackson. Glad no one was seriously hurt.