Traveling by a Humvee all-terrain vehicle, each unit is to consist of a driver, a psychiatrist and a social worker.

Through Renco, he owns AM General, the manufacturer of the supersize Hummer sport utility vehicles and the Humvee military vehicles.

But this time they masked the sound of helicopters bringing in the commando unit and two Humvee vehicles.

The Americans then returned to their Humvee vehicles and opened fire, he said.

The combat stress units here have started relatively late, in part because their Humvee vehicles and communication equipment were delayed.

The Pentagon yesterday asked a contractor building fully armor-protected Humvee military vehicles to speed production to 550 vehicles a month, up from its current output of 450.

And the deal-making has revived somewhat: last year, he acquired a 70 percent stake in the manufacturer of the Humvee military vehicle for more than $900 million.

Several of the Americans' Humvee vehicles showed cracked windows from the blows of heavy stones.

The arrival of the guard troops in Humvee all-terrain vehicles, ambulances and personnel trucks seemed to suggest the possibility of a state takeover.

One of Renco's subsidiaries builds the Humvee military vehicle; others include Renco Steel and Doe Run, a mining company.