AN ACR FO'S RPT OF BEING VECTORED BELOW THE MVA ALT DURING RADAR VECTORING FOR IAP ILS APCH DURING A NIGHT OP. GPWS ALERT AND EVASIVE ACTION SAVES THE DAY (OR NIGHT).

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WE WERE ON A VECTOR FOR FINAL APCH COURSE TO ILS 3 AT CPR. DUE TO OUR HIGH ALT THE CTLR VECTORED US ACROSS FINAL ON A NE HDG. ACFT ANTI-ICE SYS WERE OPERATIVE AND SPD BRAKES WERE DEPLOYED TO KEEP AIRSPD BELOW 250 KIAS IN DSCNT. WE WERE CLRED TO DSND TO 7400 FT MSL. CTLR GAVE US A VECTOR TOWARDS THE S; R TURN IN ORDER TO MANEUVER US AROUND TO REINTERCEPT FINAL. SHORTLY AFTER THIS THE GPWS ALERTED US TO 'TERRAIN; TERRAIN.' AN IMMEDIATE CLB WAS INITIATED AND THE ACFT WAS SUBSEQUENTLY LANDED SAFELY. CONTRIBUTING FACTORS: 1) CTLR VECTORED US AT AN ALT BELOW MVA. 2) POOR SITUATIONAL AWARENESS BY FLC. 3) CREW DISTR BY CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY IN AREA AND ICING. 4) TOO MUCH TRUST PUT IN CTLR BY FLC. CALLBACK CONVERSATION WITH RPTR REVEALED THE FOLLOWING INFO: RPTR CALLED BACK WITH THE FOLLOWING: THE FLC BRIEFING WAS DONE BUT IT WAS ACCOMPLISHED ALONG WITH THE DSCNT CHKLIST DURING THE APCH AND VECTOR FROM OVER THE ARPT. THIS ACR DOES NOT USE ANY TERRAIN AWARENESS IN THEIR APCH BRIEFINGS. RPTR WAS COUNSELED REGARDING THIS. FO ADMITS TO IT BEING VERY MUCH OF A RUSHED ATMOSPHERE AND ADMITS TO A LOSS OF SITUATIONAL AWARENESS IN EVENT. THE FMS ON THE ACFT WAS NOT BEING USED. APCH PLATES WERE OUT AND USED. THE RADIO ALTIMETER WAS NOT READ DURING THE GPWS. ZDV KEPT FLT HIGH AND THAT STARTED THE EVENT WITH A DELAY VECTOR BEING NEEDED. RPTR REMEMBERS THAT INITIALLY THE CTLR WANTED TO TURN THEM L WHILE ON THE OVERHEAD -- NE VECTOR PRIOR TO THE TURN TO THE S; BUT THIS WAS REFUSED ACCOUNT TSTM ACTIVITY TO THE L; N. THE TURN S WAS MADE AT A STANDARD RATE 25 DEG BANK ANGLE. CREW DID NOT FEEL THAT THEY WANTED TO CALL THE CTLR ON THE GND WHO; IT WAS THOUGHT; WAS WORKING A COMBINED POS OF APCH; TWR AND GND.