Yeehah!! The General Lee is Back!

Not the car, silly, but a beloved Stryker vehicle wrecked by an IED in Iraq. From Michael Yon:

By sea and by land, one of the Army’s war-battered Stryker vehicles known to its unit as the General Lee is coming home to Anniston Army Depot, Ala., where it was built, to be repaired and sent on to a unit in ready-to-fight condition.

Time after time in Iraq, General Lee saved soldiers from improvised explosive devices, but an explosion in April left it unrepairable in Iraq and declared a battle loss.

General Lee is known far and wide from writer Michael Yon’s dispatch titled “Superman,” which recounts some Army unit activities in Iraq that left soldiers virtually unscathed while riding in General Lee.

Here is some awesome footage, actually filmed by the insurgents who planted the IED: