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Introducing a new addition to staff here at Castle Argghhh!

By The Armorer on August 20, 2004 | | Comments (7)

Castle Argghhh! started out as a team blog, with She Who Will Be Obeyed, the Mistress of Castle Argghhh! going off on her own, rightfully feeling a little overrun. SWWBO "arrived" today, scoring the first Instalanche at Castle Argghhh! (see post below).

During Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Armorer at Castle Argghhh! got a little flavor of seeing his words in print as he scored the coveted position of being the first accidentally designated "Military Guy" of Jonah Goldberg at the National Review Online blog, The Corner.

Over time, Castle Argghhh! has engendered a hard core of readers who provide content when the Armorer's muse is flagging - the most prolific being CAPT H of Her Majesty's Canadian Forces. That officially makes the Castle 'Combined' in military parlance, having a non-US component.

Today, the Castle goes Joint, with the addition of the Instapilot, "Dusty" Rhoades. He's Jonah's Airpower Guy, a retired A10 Warthog driver (my kinda flyboy - an airborne artilleryman with a Big Gun). I'll let Dusty tell you more about himself as he starts posting - but for now, welcome to Castle Argghhh!, a Joint and Combined Task Force!

Openings still available for Seapower Guy, Marine Guy, Coast Guard Guy, and heck, British, Australian, and New Zealand Guy (any other country can certainly apply to join Castle Argghhh!'s roster!) Would also like Senior NCO Guy - heck anyone who thinks they've got something to say can always send it along!

Castle Argghhh! - The Home of Two of Jonah's Military Guys!™

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By J.M. Heinrichs on August 20, 2004 11:55 PM
A P-P-P-P-ilot? Oh my Gawd, change grid square! Which way is he coming from? He does know! Quick, out into the open; if he can see us, he'll miss! Er, welcome aboard, Dusty. A-10? We really want to be your friends. Cheers JMH
 
By rammer on August 21, 2004 12:56 AM
welcome Dusty. i look forward to your explanations of B-1 cas missions. somehow, the A-10 has more appeal. on a related note. last year i took my boys to the air museum at Wright-Pat. we wandered all over the place. at the end of the day, they said, "Dad, where is the A-10? We want to see the A-10." we asked around. we hadn't missed it, but it wasn't on display. the next day i showed them live video from Fox. it seems to me that the former Army Air Corps has a lot to learn about public relations.
 
By Calliope on August 21, 2004 9:58 AM
Cool! Look forward to your posts Dusty. :)
 
By big al on August 22, 2004 12:32 AM
Is it true that the Warthog is being phased out. I sort of understand it's being given to the Air National Guard units. And if so ,why? From what I've seen it's perfect for it's role.It takes an incredible amount of abuse,and really dishes it out too. Just curious thats all.
 
By Teresa on August 22, 2004 9:01 PM
A-10!!! Wow, impressive. Yeah I saw the pictures of one of those things all shot up and still flying home. Welcome Dusty! I look forward to your posts. Now someone just tell me how in the world I'm ever gonna keep up with all this great reading! :-)
 
By John of Argghhh! on August 24, 2004 5:06 AM
Big Al - Dusty Sez: Bottom lines: No Already have For the same reasons they have F-15s and F-16s (Total Force) It was specifically designed for the role Yep cockpit can take Russian 23mm cannon shot at point-blank range (wanna see some peectures?) Yep One HEI round = one standard Army hand grenade (explosive weight); one API round will destroy a tank's engine compartment and 3 API rouds are what are used to calculate the Pk on a tank...three shall be the count and the count shall be three, count not two, nor shall thou count to the number four...and I can shoot 70 rounds/second. BTW, any idea why the ejection handles are pulled UP in the cocpit photo? Heh. (Thanks...I think I wet myself) Check Six, Dusty
 
By Mythilt on August 24, 2004 2:42 PM
Rammer, well they were rearranging the AF Museum's layout at the time. The A-10 is back on display I believe.
 
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