We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/checking_six_for_the_guard_and_reserve.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:06:05 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification If you don't check out Jason Van Steenwyk at least once a day, you usually miss something good. I wish to God the Army could figure out a way to get its mind right vis-à-vis the ARC components. Now, what I know about the Army you could fit in a helmet bag, but it seems to me the active Grunt powers that be could figure out a way to tap a resource and exploit a talent pool a little better than they have up to now. As a blue-suiter, I'd scratch my head about that a lot. Maybe it's the... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/checking_six_for_the_guard_and_reserve.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/checking_six_for_the_guard_and_reserve.html Wed, 20 Oct 2004 23:47:16 -0600 Back in the early 80's, as an active duty A1C working on radar and nav on F-4's, I was on a Copper flag excercise at Tyndall AFB. There was a bunch of ANG guys there from Rapid City, S.D. They had better tools than we did, which they let us borrow, and much experienced wisdom on F-4's, which they also let us borrow. One of the guys even gave me his expired NCO club card so I could get in, not being a member at the time. A nicer bunch of guys I never ran into in four years of active duty. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/checking_six_for_the_guard_and_reserve.html#comment-7949 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/checking_six_for_the_guard_and_reserve.html#comment-7949 Sun, 24 Oct 2004 13:24:43 -0600 I've had a lot more grief from "friendly" aviation than anyone other than bad guys suffered from my artillery! My back still hurts from the worthless git of a pilot whose 'hover' had an upward component and I ran out of rope before I ran out of altitude. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/checking_six_for_the_guard_and_reserve.html#comment-7911 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/checking_six_for_the_guard_and_reserve.html#comment-7911 Fri, 22 Oct 2004 09:54:22 -0600 =P Just disregard any posts that snivel about "long-range snipers"... ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/checking_six_for_the_guard_and_reserve.html#comment-7909 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/checking_six_for_the_guard_and_reserve.html#comment-7909 Fri, 22 Oct 2004 07:49:09 -0600 No, it sounds suspiciously like something Dusty of Argghhh! would say. I'd find some way to make the artillery the hero... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/checking_six_for_the_guard_and_reserve.html#comment-7793 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/checking_six_for_the_guard_and_reserve.html#comment-7793 Thu, 21 Oct 2004 21:37:01 -0600 San Francisco was "it's an eggshell armed with a hammer," my guess is that your airpower quote originated in the US. On my list of all-time great aviation maxims, though, is "You can shoot down every MiG the Soviets employ, but if you return to base and find the lead Soviet tank commander eating breakfast in your snack bar, Jack, you've lost the war." --Anonymous A-10 Pilot. But it sounds suspiciously like something John of Argghhh! would say... ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/checking_six_for_the_guard_and_reserve.html#comment-7762 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/checking_six_for_the_guard_and_reserve.html#comment-7762 Thu, 21 Oct 2004 08:46:21 -0600 Was it Hap Arnold, or one of his Navy rivals, or Douhet, or even Seversky who said, back in the 30s, "Air power is an eggshell armed with a hammer, tied to a base with an invisible, delicate cord." http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/checking_six_for_the_guard_and_reserve.html#comment-7754 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/checking_six_for_the_guard_and_reserve.html#comment-7754 Thu, 21 Oct 2004 03:58:55 -0600