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15-034 Garand Picture of the Day
This supply truck hit a mine while trasporting ammunition to an artillery battery, and was reduced to scrap metal. Further down the road a sapper sweeps for further mines as a convoy waits to move on.
It appears that the troops near to the picture are apparently recieving instruction from the medic in the middle, possibly this whole scene is part of a training exercise albeit in a very realistic setting.
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Supply truck looks like a jeep to me 
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A very, very broken one...there's your spare parts Bill...
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There are a lot of clues there to tell me it is a training exercise.
First off, I don't see a mine crater, or for that matter, evidence of a blast other than the vehicle, etc debris. There is no evidence of the vehicle (an ammo truck) burning after it hit the mine. Everyone's uniforms are too clean looking. The sappers are sweeping the road for behind the troops at the mine site and there are troops everywhere on that road.
But hey, I wasn't there and this is only a guess.
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Paul, the jeep has been scavenged of it's tires and wheels as well. The frame is bent like from a broadside accident.
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Originally Posted by
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The frame is bent like from a broadside accident.
Um, you would know. 
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I reckon where the GI is standing with his hands on his hips may be an indication of a crater and I gather the GI's in the pic walked towards the camera on their left side of the road assuming the detector operator had swept that.
Otherwise they may suffer a similar fate as the transport vehicle did, had a few rounds stacked in it by the looks.......
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Originally Posted by
Bob Womack
Um, you would know.
Bob
Ya think? 
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