Thread by @6Voodoo

Apparently we are giving CDLs to third worlders now, but ask any Iraq veteran and they will tell you why this is a terrible idea.

These people not only can not operate vehicles like this even in the best of conditions, but their disregard for human life is mind boggling

We always talk about logistics. Logistics win wars. Got it.

But to keep the FOBs going, the US drove in hundreds of trucks every night up the MSRs (main supply routes) from Kuwait. They carried food and fuel, ice cream and Burger King.

Shepherded into 40 truck convoys and escorted by American gun trucks, they drove at night, slipping though the dark sand like an army of sand worms.

To solve this manpower need, the army recruited Third Country Nationals (TCNs) to pilot the semi trucks.

They came from India, Pakistan Bangladesh, Myanmar and wherever else labor was cheap. And we got what we paid for.

The TCNs were savages. And incompetent. When they weren’t high, they were half asleep. They crashed into everything they could.

Night after night I watched the convoys roll down Route Tampa, I would listen to the American commander call in his truck number, and notice they were short.

It got to the point we would write down how many passed and how many were lost

TCNs would run eachother off the road, or just crash, but they would never stop for eachother.

These people lived together in TCN tents on bases, and couldn’t be bothered not to leave their brethren alone in Iraq.

Day after day you would find rolled over and destroyed White Trucks along the MSR. Just left behind

Some times the landowner unit would dig the corpse of the driver out, strap it to the hood and drive back to base. Sometimes not. Sometimes no driver was found. Who knows. Inshallah

Occasionally, when the gun trucks did see something happen, it was ALWAYS the Americans fighting through the flames and twisted steel to rescue the driver.

Brave young Americans got burned, bled, and inhaled smoke to rescue people while their friends just watched.

It was so common, that losses to vehicle accidents FAR outpaced losses to enemy contact. But there were always more bodies to feed into the trucks.

I saw them die because they were cooking rice in their trucks.

I saw them die because they fell asleep

I saw them die because they were high

I saw them die because they tried to solve beefs by running eachother off the road, or just jockeying to by one spot ahead through the gate.

I saw them stab eachother over old world feuds.

I saw them fuck and rape eachother regularly

The long and the short of this story is these people, without civilization’s shaping effect, should not be on our roads let alone driving the most dangerous things out there

They do not view human life like we do. Seeing that Indian shrug after killing that family wasn’t a shock

I’ve seen it dozens of times. They stand indifferently as their friends burn to death, why do you think they will show you any remorse at all?

PS: Yes; I know there were US Army green truck convoys too, and there were American contractor convoys. Got it. They were good. Shut up 88Ms