REALITY CHECK TIME!

is there anyone here on this list, that really believes, rules or no
rules, that if an APC or IFV sucks up a  serious hit (serious-not
catastropic), that the grunts in the back ARE NOT GONNA KNOW ABOUT
IT???????????????????

as i recall it, there is this IMPACT,  and NOISE,  a noise soo loud some
survivors say they never heard it,  followed by everything inside the
vehicle that is movable flying through the air. . . .

then, in the ear-crushing silence, there is the smell of explosives (and
if you are unlucky!) fire and smoke boiling into the comparment . . . .

everyman heads for the nearest exit, and LEAVES, with the unijured
dragging the injured out of the  vehicle.

none of this "After you, ALPHONSE, my good fellow! But of course, my
dear GASTOGNE!"

of course if it is a catastrophic, or a nasty burn through with hot
gases and molten metal spraying into the compartment, you are dead,
dead, dead  and not going anywhere  . . . .

if an APC/IFV	is hit by large bore MG, there was  stunning noise, and
sometimes, flying paint off the interior hull as BULGES FORMED on the
inside, a result of bullets hitting the outside hull and sticking into
it!

if you are close enough, the bullets slice right through the hull and
ricichet around inside the comparment making a mess out of the occupants
(crew and squaddies), possibly starting fires and causing explosions .

in any of the  above circumstances, i do believe the crew and squaddies
would know their APC/IFV was hit.

just my thoughts, based on limited experience with being  blown up.

DAWGIE