A U.S. Marine is killed and two others are wounded in an attack on their re-supply convoy traveling east of the Iraqi town of Falluja, an U.S. military spokesman said. Insurgents detonated a crude bomb close to the truck convoy before pouring rocket propelled grenades and small arms fire on those who survived the roadside bombing. The news stories are now all too familiar — American ground troops killed during convoy or patrol operations due to mortar attack, small arms fire, and detonation of rocket propelled grenades and roadside Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs). Hundreds of truck convoys are on the move every day in Iraq, and the growing number of fatalities has not gone unnoticed at the Pentagon and in cities and towns across the nation. Operational experiments conducted by MLB Company and others indicate that mini-UAVs can help protect the soldiers traveling the dangerous dusty roads of Iraq.
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