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Radio War Nerd EP 370 — Iraq War 20th Anniversary, pt. 1: Abandoned Soldiers, feat. Seth Harp

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The Importance of Vehicle Armor in the Cold War

"It's basically like Russia going into Ukraine except that the body army didn't have the NATO training and the NATO weapons and so on, but they could still do a lot of damage," he says. "We made our own armor up. We found the smile of scrap metal out in the space in Kuwait." He recalls how one bullet hit his femur as he drove through Samara; it may have saved his life. 'There was no communication at all because there were no comms'

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