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 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/11/to_borrow_from_blackfive.html Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:33:42 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification ...who may have already linked to this, I don't know. Here is Someone You Should Know. Aside from the visitors to the Castle who come in from Google searches for Gun Pr0n, most are military, or military-related, like family members, friends, etc. This post is for you 'normals' who lead a regular life, but who surf blogs like this trying to get a sense of the who, what, and why-the-hell? of soldiering. I'm going to link to a post by "The Questing Cat," a soldier of the 1st Infantry Division. In this post, you'll get a view into "A day... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/11/to_borrow_from_blackfive.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/11/to_borrow_from_blackfive.html Sat, 06 Nov 2004 08:58:37 -0600 I have heard that the F-bomb developed from from a middle German word "ficken" which means to stick. This was a term used by Royal Navy gunners to describe the process of poking a hole in a bag of powder through the fuse hole. Being English, the word got corrupted to its modern spelling. Being sailors, the word got corrupted to its modern meaning. I wish I could find a decent place to verify that. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/11/to_borrow_from_blackfive.html#comment-8358 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/11/to_borrow_from_blackfive.html#comment-8358 Mon, 08 Nov 2004 13:46:12 -0600 Not all us ed majors are clueless, :-) but I think to understand one had to have gone through the mil tng first, then to civ ed... All through my grad program (Adult ed), I often found myself at odds with teachers who just couldn't understand things like intense individualized motivational humiliation, or the value of telling a person in clear, no-nonsense terms how he screwed up, and what it would take for him to "unf*uck" himself (or even why that line really was funny in FMJ).... Later, when I went to work for a northern middle-state dept of ed, I found I was too 'bristly' for most 'professional' teachers, or at least that was what they said. Of course, I just felt like they were a bunch of whiner apologists for mediocrity (kind of like the kerryites, but not as evil).... Finally, I ended up getting a letter of 'counseling' from a wuss assistant school superintendent because I tossed some whiny drama teacher a quarter and told her to go call someone who though whiny-baby-runny-mascara looked sexy. Apparently, I wasn't sensitive enough. So, that was when I decided it was time to head back home to the Army, where mediocrity is the starting point for training, not the desired outcome! Anyway, there are a lot of us ed majors who know what "Arrrrrmyyyy Trainnnnninng, Sir!" is all about, and we help create it. Oo-RAH!! -SangerM http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/11/to_borrow_from_blackfive.html#comment-8346 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/11/to_borrow_from_blackfive.html#comment-8346 Sun, 07 Nov 2004 20:50:54 -0600 ..."Early Childhood" training in the Marine Corps?...ok...ok I know that was done tongue in cheek Tenderfoot! Ha ha A former Jarhead, Arditi http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/11/to_borrow_from_blackfive.html#comment-8318 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/11/to_borrow_from_blackfive.html#comment-8318 Sat, 06 Nov 2004 09:37:14 -0600