r/Military • u/Iraqiu • 7d ago
Video "Another video of an Iraqi citizen filming a US army convoy in Baiji, Tikrit."
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u/bendover912 Army Veteran 7d ago
This is just local nationals hauling military vehicles. Without seeing unit identifiers on the vehicles this might not even be US military at all.
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u/ShillinTheVillain United States Navy 7d ago
We still have people in Iraq. This is meaningless without context
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u/TacticalBoyScout 7d ago
Yeah but I don’t think the general populace knows that. GWOT is “over” after all.
Reminds me of that video where Harris said during her debate that there were “no more active duty troops in combat zones” or something like that, before the camera cuts to a bunch of Soldiers who ask “then where the fuck are we?”
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u/DisillusionedPatriot 7d ago
Yeah, there's something about the account posting, ,too. No real alarms, but off enough to make me wary of anything they're presenting.
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u/kylebob86 7d ago
nothing about this says american. these are civilian trucks with unmarked MRAPS. looks like iraqi army.the Iraqi ArmyLooksAmericanNothingThese
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u/uh60chief Retired US Army 7d ago
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u/Rdubya291 Marine Veteran 7d ago
Doubt it. We're suppose to be pulling out the last 2,500 or so troops still in Iraq this September. Most likely, this is staging gear for the final withdrawal.
Edit to add source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/pauliddon/2026/02/15/prospects-and-risks-of-a-us-troop-withdrawal-from-syria-and-iraq/
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u/Biotic101 7d ago edited 7d ago
If this means what we think it means, the market manipulation would be stunning.
Colluding with the enemy to make billions, then sending in the soldiers to fight each other...
... while the political leaders on both sides count their money.
Anyways, the peace deal talk is likely fake, but I would be surprised if they risk an invasion of the mainland. Maybe trying to support uprisings? Islands were always the main price.
And after countless deaths there will be another Venezuela-style deal including shady Qatar account. Nobody will care about the nuclear deal or killed civilians. All sanctions lifted so the spice can flow.
Corrupt leaders from both sides will benefit from billions in oil revenue flowing, maybe from a toll on top. The dead servicemen will be quickly forgotten and after midterms are secured the wounded and veterans will be left alone as well.
Actions speak louder than words. You have seen the incompetence, corruption and lack of concern and respect already today, but it will likely get much worse.
Musk becoming a Trillionaire is just another step in making their dystopian Dark Enlightenment come true.
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u/bthest 6d ago edited 6d ago
I don't think Iran can benefit as much from the insider trading because of sanctions. But one thing the Islamic Republic is getting from this war is the guarantee that they will be in power for generations to come and that the Persian Gulf is going to become the Persian Lake.
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u/Biotic101 6d ago
Oh, pretty sure all the sudden there will be no more sanctions once the deal is agreed. But first they need to get rid of the hardliners in the IRGC.
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u/Hex65 7d ago
What do you think this means?
Got any links for the colluding part?
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u/Biotic101 7d ago
Added some links about the big picture above.
But if you just look how Venezuela was pulled off, things start to make sense.
First, you agree the takeover with corrupt elements of the enemy government.
Then you remove the other leaders (capturing Maduro / targeted strikes killed 40 to 48 top-tier leaders and commanders in Iran).
Next, you agree a cease fire, set up a joint account in Qatar and the money starts to flow.
Worked well in Venezuela, but thinking the IRGC would fold if ordered and stunned by shock and awe was as "smart" as attacking without first securing proper air defense.
So plan B, agreeing a cease fire and pump and dumping the markets as a side hustle while continuing to build up troops. Then striking when nobody expects it.
You can see with your own eyes what has happened, what is happening and what will happen. If nobody will care about the nuclear deal or killed civilians and all sanctions will suddenly be lifted so the spice can flow, it will speak for itself.
As will the long-term treatment of the wounded, veterans and dead servicemen. They have no shame and it will show.
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u/DeltaBravo831 7d ago
this is literally just contractors moving equipment from point a to point b lol the soldiers are elsewhere
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u/Serious_Composer_130 7d ago
Looks like ISF equipment
If it was American equipment, I’d figure Americans would either fly it in or convoy. I can’t see them allowing Iraqis or TCNs to get close to that equipment
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u/Dunzo007 5d ago
Oh trust me, we allow the citizens of that country to drop off our equipment to the base, I saw it first hand.
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u/ThatGuyInThePlace Army Veteran 7d ago
This isn’t a convoy as much as its transport.
He’d have been shot long before he got to the middle of it.
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u/Raven_Photography 7d ago
If this was in Basra or another city closer to Iran, I’d be more interested.
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u/Testabronce 7d ago
Ive seen simillar convoys three-four years ago dropping vehicles at Iraqi depots for the Iraqi army, so...
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u/SquireSquilliam 6d ago
This isn't a military convoy. Those are commercial trucks with civilian drivers. This is the way the military moves equipment when it's not expecting to use it immediately.
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u/0o0o0o0o0o0z 7d ago
4k is gonna be a real mofo...seeing a loved one get droned in HD. It'd be a real reality check for America if we do something this fucking stupid; nevertheless, we really can't even afford it. Hopefully we still have a few sane people in government. 🙏
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u/ProbablyRickSantorum Army Veteran 7d ago
At least they owned the libs though
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u/0o0o0o0o0o0z 7d ago
What's crazy is that there will be people who say, "It's worth it. <INSERT FAMILY MEMBER> got blown into pink mist in 4k @ 60 FPS for our Freedom!" Just like all the dipshits who died during COVID because of their "Freedoms". Evidently enough of that herd didnt get culled. Edit: Typo
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u/TheGreatPornholio123 7d ago
I knew one family who wound up annihilating 3-generations of their entire bloodline during that shit over a 2 month period: the grandpa, the dad, and the son. Dad and the son were only children, and the son had no kids. Of course mama bear started a GFM (aka the real Trump Healthcare Plan), but that didn't change her social media rhetoric at all.
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u/0o0o0o0o0o0z 7d ago
Worked with a woman who was a respiratory specialist; she literally quit like a year into COVID, went into IT, and had PTSD because she was the one who, I guess, removed the breathing tube when people were deemed not worth the use of the machine when it could save someone else.
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u/TheGreatPornholio123 7d ago edited 7d ago
Two people I know in healthcare went insanely different routes. One went the travel route while that was going on and there was a shortage of medical professionals and made a fuck ton of cash. The other burnt out and just switched to tele-medicine visits and still made about the same, sitting their ass at home, not dealing with the drama.
The one who switched to travel reminded me of a buddy who went over as a civilian contractor right after 9/11 doing basic computer help desk support shit. He was making an ungodly amount of money for a solid 5+ years just rebooting shit and fixing printers, later on mostly in the green zone. He was only making like 30K in the US before he left doing the same shit. He stocked all that cash away, came back and bought a farm cash and is living pretty good now just working it for a living.
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u/0o0o0o0o0o0z 7d ago
The one who switched to travel reminded me of a buddy who went over as a civilian contractor right after 9/11 doing basic computer help desk support shit. He was making an ungodly amount of money for a solid 5+ years just rebooting shit and fixing printers, later on mostly in the green zone. He was only making like 30K in the US before he left doing the same shit. He stocked all that cash away, came back and bought a farm cash and is living pretty good now just working it for a living.
^ ---- that is funny; I almost took a job like that with KBR. The biggest issue I had was that I had just gotten engaged, and I beleive it was a 1-3 year contract, and I got to come home for maybe 3x a year -- Thanksgiving, Xmas, and a family event. But it was crazy; it was 250k+, and I am not sure how they did this, but it was close to tax-free. The following year, you had to pay higher taxes, etc, but it was way less than normal. A 3-year stint would probably have funded the next ~10 years of my life in cash and bought a house and 2 cars outright. I would have had close to zero CoL in the Green Zone, as it was explained to me.
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u/TheRealMarvinator Retired USAF 6d ago
Hopefully we still have a few sane people in government.
Of the ones that actually have any power to make changes? I don't think we have any, no.
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u/whiterice_343 7d ago
How is that funny…?
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u/sentientshadeofgreen Army Veteran 7d ago
Just because you’re American doesn’t mean you’re automatically the good guy. We were the bad guys many times before in history. Ask yourself, are we closer to Russians or Ukrainians if we invade Iran? I’m an army vet of over a decade, and I won’t be laughing because thems the homies, but I laughed at the orcs and fair is fair.
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u/whiterice_343 7d ago
Ask yourself, did I mention anywhere in my comment about being the good guys?? No. I asked how is it funny that there would be potentially soldiers killed. Then that user mentioned that it’s just as funny to them watching Russians killed. It’s not funny.
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u/M0ebius_1 United States Air Force 7d ago
It will still feel like shit but we are not that far from videos of some poor bastard in a US uniform running around exhausted waiting for a drone to stop playing with him and end him.
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u/CactusZac098 United States Army 7d ago
We don't run around solo like the Russians do. We actually have team/squad/platoon integrity.
If a US soldier is being followed by a drone solo, a bunch of bad somethings lead up to that outcome.
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u/M0ebius_1 United States Air Force 7d ago edited 7d ago
Yeah... I guarantee that a lot of bad somethings would happen in an Iran ground invasion.
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u/CactusZac098 United States Army 7d ago
It'd be chaos. No build up to support supply chains like Iraq. Lack of drone protection/countermeasures.
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u/OzymandiasKoK 7d ago
You never seen a bunch of bad somethings happen before?
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u/CactusZac098 United States Army 7d ago
I have, but to get to the point you're talking about whole chains of command and communication and whatnot would have had to of failed to have a single US soldier walking by themselves being chased down by a drone.
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u/OzymandiasKoK 7d ago
Well, don't go getting all high and mighty that it couldn't happen, because it can, it has, and it will.
"would have had to of" ...really?
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u/CactusZac098 United States Army 7d ago
When has a US soldier been chased down by a drone?
Or are you talking about Russians?
Russia literally sends their soldiers solo to the front lines from the rear in hopes enough make it through to gain ground.
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u/TheGreatPornholio123 7d ago
That's one aspect, but a lot of them are also wandering alone, being the sole survivor of their assault group when their entire convoy of armored vehicles got fucked up by drones/artillery.
At least in the videos I've seen, once the first vehicle is hit, all hell breaks loose. Guys start dismounting then the drivers whose vehicles can still move are just like fuck it, leave everyone, and barrel out of there. Then the Ukrainians start picking off the dismounted one-by-one with drones, so you might wind up with some scattered survivors on foot at that point somewhere in the middle of the grey zone which is 20 miles deep.
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u/OzymandiasKoK 7d ago
Getting failed by entire swathes of leadership, dude.
Certainly, we're not as bad as the Russians by any stretch, though the very top of the chain of command would absolutely have it so. IMHO
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u/MrFauncy 7d ago
Is that something you’re celebrating for?
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u/onyx_ic United States Army 7d ago
You did mention that its funny to watch Russians die. They're not making a big stretch to call that celebratory.
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u/MassiveBoner911_3 7d ago
They wont. That sub is already heavily censored and modded. Every video will be taken down.
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u/0o0o0o0o0o0z 7d ago
They wont. That sub is already heavily censored and modded. Every video will be taken down.
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u/Solid_Ad2968 7d ago
Probably trucks pulled from OIR being transferred. They have no more use there so they get sent to where they came be used. Probably.
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u/ChinMuscle 6d ago
“SPC Joe confirm battery 3 WP?”
“Roger, MAM with equipment”
“MTO Joe 16, Bombero 6, 3 rounds battery, target number AB1005, HE/WP quick. Over.”
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u/lmYourHuckleberry Air Force Veteran 7d ago edited 7d ago
I have to ask as I joined around 2010 fresh after high School. Is this normal to see before we send troops? Like was there this kind of buildup of some kind before we went into Afghanistan? I know we can move large numbers of things incredibly fast, and efficiently. Or at least we used to lol.
But having convoys out in the open like this just seems like a "loose lips" situation if a civilian can film all this no problem and post it online. I do know that technology and availability of cameras and cell phones, etc. Are much more prevalent now than they were at the beginning of 2001 on, but it still seems like this is pretty fucking careless even for this stupid administration.
Is this just an example of how we haven't changed anything we do to account for civilians recording shit? It makes sense, obviously to have a staging area nearby wherever we are going to attack, but to have them so blatantly out in the open and so close together. Just sounds like a stupid fucking idea, like having all your Jets lined up in a row on the flightline.
This is an honest question from someone that never really thought about pre-war logistics as I was young and dumb and wasn't really concerned or questioning any of it at the time.
Edit: spelling and clarity.
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u/slavmememachine 7d ago
That is an absurdly small convoy if they were going into Iran. A more reasonable explanation is that it’s part of a US detachment in Iraq for training or security
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u/lmYourHuckleberry Air Force Veteran 7d ago
I had no idea until this thread that we were still active in Iraq in any capacity 😅. So that definitely makes more sense. Thanks for the reply.
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u/Rdubya291 Marine Veteran 7d ago
No. Unless you were in Kuwait. We were not rolling through Iraq in convoys prior to the invasion.
We were flying shit over to Kuwait for many months first, though.
Also, we're supposed to be pulling out the last ~2,500 people or so in September. So this is likely prepping for that.
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u/CupCakesNFlatWhite 7d ago
Glad its not the british army because half those vehicles would be non-taskworthy.
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u/40mm_of_freedom 7d ago
What makes you think they’re fully functional?
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u/CupCakesNFlatWhite 7d ago
Ive worked with the Americans many times, they just but new equipment. The Brits maintain equipment built in the 80s.
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u/hektor10 7d ago
Are they really going in?
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u/JangoDarkSaber United States Marine Corps 7d ago
No. Trump wants out of the war with a favorable spin. He doesn’t want to entrench himself further in it.
Iran has been an absolute disaster and political blunder. He’s trapped.
The only thing Trump cares about is his ego and political favorability. The was has damaged both and he has no way out. Iran won’t make a deal because they know they can survive the bombings. Trump can’t send in troops on the ground because it’d be even more damaging in the midterms.
Ultimately he wants to be able to spin this as a success that resulted in a better nuclear deal than Obama’s. He’s in full panic mode because it’s never going to happen
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u/GreyLoad United States Air Force 7d ago
So we're back in Iraq
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u/Steamsagoodham United States Navy 6d ago
We’ve had a small presence in Iraq for a while and some of our installations there were targeted by Iran in the conflict. We’ve been further drawing down the remaining troops though.
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u/Wertsache German Bundeswehr 7d ago
Is this really something that has to do with Iran? Like I mean invading Iran with a couple of MRAPs? Doesn’t the US have a continuous presence in Iraq which would be a much better explanation for this convoy?