Convoy truck drivers in iraq

Missions into Iraq tested everyone's nerves and skills, say the soldiers. Driving in convoys of up to 40 semi-trucks at one time meant constantly keeping on Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins. Halliburton truckers ambushed in Iraq. Video first publicized by www.doorway.ru  · Thomas Hamill On His Iraq Escape. Last spring, American truck driver Thomas Hamill's convoy was attacked by insurgents in Iraq, and he was taken hostage. On April 9, , Hamill was the convoy.

That Easter weekend was a turning point in the war in Iraq for convoy ambushes. For the next year the insurgents would spar with the truck drivers for control of the road. As vehicle armor improved along with convoy tactics, the insurgents suffered heavy casualties during the Palm Sunday Ambush on Ma, which inspired them to resort more to improvised explosive devices as weapon of choice. [4]. . Thomas Hamill, a Mississippi trucker and dairy farmer, went to Iraq to haul freight for the war effort and make the kind of money not available to many drivers in the United States. Six American truck drivers and two U.S. soldiers were killed when the convoy rumbled into a five-mile gauntlet of weapons fire on April 9, , making an emergency delivery of jet fuel to the.

Webb was one of many drivers who spent the first year of the war in Iraq helping Shortly after the attacks on convoys began, truck drivers took matters. Thomas Hamill takes a job as a civilian truck driver for the U.S. military in war-torn Iraq. When his convoy is attacked and he is taken hostage by. Oct Last spring, American truck driver Thomas Hamill's convoy was attacked by insurgents in Iraq, and he was taken hostage. On April 9,