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/life_got_you_down.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:06:09 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification "Artillerymen believe the world consists of two types of people; other Artillerymen and targets." - Unknown Infantry annoying you? Tankers running through your positions knocking over your aiming posts and collimators? Did some signal unit just set up some huge farking antenna (read: target) back by the battalion trains? Were the log weenies unable to tell the difference between M1 105mm HE and M393 105mm HE? Are you out there among the unwashed, lending dignity to what is otherwise a vulgar brawl when some weasel with a scarf around his neck who will sleep on a cot in a... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/life_got_you_down.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/life_got_you_down.html Fri, 15 Oct 2004 06:25:07 -0600 Have you thought of using a big old 18th Century mortar as a punchbowl for that? I seem to recall reading that Washington and his guys did so. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/life_got_you_down.html#comment-7634 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/life_got_you_down.html#comment-7634 Sat, 16 Oct 2004 17:40:52 -0600 I went to Kings College in Halifax which has close ties to the navy. In WWII it was an officer's training facility and listed as HMCS Kings. Somewhere along the line, the Nazis published that the scholl had been sunk off Iceland. Anyway, we had a traditional party punch called gunpowder punch due to the 7-2-1 ratio. In the case of the punch it was red wine, port, brandy. Mulling spices and old apples added. Served warm. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/life_got_you_down.html#comment-7577 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/life_got_you_down.html#comment-7577 Fri, 15 Oct 2004 08:38:20 -0600 It comes from the Brits, which is where the 'e' comes from, and it's much more fun to make it yourself... the gentle sigh from the fermentation when you open up the container... good muzzle blast! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/life_got_you_down.html#comment-7576 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/life_got_you_down.html#comment-7576 Fri, 15 Oct 2004 08:21:36 -0600 You can get this ready made in Savannah at The River House and The Shrimp Factory. Excellent beverage. Potent too. They leave out the "e" Chatham Artillery Punch. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/life_got_you_down.html#comment-7574 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/life_got_you_down.html#comment-7574 Fri, 15 Oct 2004 08:12:26 -0600