The heavily armoured vehicles offer better protection against improvised explosive devices than Humvees do.
At nearly five dollars a gallon, our love for Humvees cooled quicker than a bar-room romance.
Qasim took twenty of his, crammed them into the two Humvees, and followed Wright.
It had been heading toward three U.S. Humvees and failed to heed a soldier's order to halt.
What's perhaps more intimidating are the overnight patrols on which soldiers climb out of their Humvees and go looking for bombs.
There are dozens of roadblocks reinforced by machine guns mounted on American-built Humvees.
Prior to the plane's departure, U.S. Marine Humvees patrolled the airport perimeter, where the sniper fire had erupted Thursday.
Boston remained under a heavy security presence, with scores of National Guard troops gathering among armored Humvees in the Boston Common.
The Pentagon plans to replace about 55, 000 Humvees, or one-third of the fleet used by the U.S. Army and Marine Corps.
Humvees, 10, 000 out of 12, 000 humvees that are over there aren't armored.
For several years, the Pentagon has had plans to rebuild Humvees used in the war, and improve their armor, instead of buying new ones.
Unidentified Man: What they've had to do to provide better protection to the soldiers are to put armored plates on the sides of these Humvees.
After one soldier pointedly questioned Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld two years ago about similar vulnerabilities with Humvees, the military moved aggressively to armor its vehicles.
The entire area near the parish courthouse has taken on the appearance of a military camp with trucks, generators and Humvees, all covered with mud.
It means equipping more than three hundred and fifty thousand Afghan soldiers and policemen with guns, uniforms, Humvees, barracks, gasoline trucks, food, helicopters, hospitals, and spare parts.
Afghan engineers are able to carry out repairs on their old American Humvees, but outside the workshop there are more than 100 idle vehicles, waiting for spare parts.
For Ellen Vanacore, a 60-year-old widow who moved to Long Beach in August, it was the morning after Sandy when she saw National Guard Humvees gathering at City Hall.
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Anyone who watches TV has seen the familiar images from the warfront: military men and women in desert camouflage uniforms riding in Humvees, patrolling dusty streets, firing their weapons.
But proposing improvements of vehicles that already exist will highlight the fact that the government could save money by simply killing the whole program and doing a good job of refurbishing Humvees.
Mr. BOWMAN: What we know is that four Marine Humvees rolled into Haditha on the morning of November 19 and they hit a roadside bomb, killing one Marine and injuring two other.
Two Humvees belonging to the Dale County Sheriff's Department and a tan, military-style personnel carrier were parked in a field beside the bunker throughout much of the ordeal, along with sport-utility vehicles.
The idea was to replace all of the 150, 000 or so Humvees in the joint fleet with the new vehicles, which were supposed to be better protected, easier to deploy, and cheaper to maintain.
If Gov. Andrew Cuomo were to order the National Guard to assist, each of New York's Guard's six operating areas will be ready to deploy 10 Humvees and 40 troops trained in disaster response.
When visibility finally opened up, it was still pitch dark, and we are in armored vehicles, in Humvees and moving along a line that was expected to get fire, and sure enough -- it did.
Then from nowhere emerged a large group of Iraqis -- an old man, several young boys and a stream of women enveloped in black chadors -- that began crossing a major intersection overlooked by Humvees.
Huge tires for Humvees being rolled out.
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