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/2005/09/getting_to_the_fight.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:59:49 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification ...a continuing intermittent series of no-juicy-stuff-because-of-OPSEC emails from Blake, helping the 101st Get To The Fight. From "Somewhere in the Middle East..." Greetings from about half-a-mile past the back of the Beyond, I made my own memorial to 9-11 by getting on an airplane at Fort Campbell about 0500 that morning and flying to Kuwait with the quartering party for the brigade of the 101st Abn Div that I support. At least, “quartering party” is what the manuals had been calling it for several hundred years when I was a serving soldier. I guess that that phrase didn’t sound manly... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/getting_to_the_fight.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/getting_to_the_fight.html Wed, 14 Sep 2005 06:21:59 -0600 What a great post. As a former mother to a 101st soldier and still a good friend to many families of our current soldiers, I thank you for this post. I shared some of the contents of it with some of our families of those 101st deploying now and those that deployed the last couple weeks. I am also a friend of one of the Maine greeters and she will be thrilled to see Blakes posts. She talks of the wonderful soldiers that come thru Bangor and what an awesome experience it is to hug and welcome our wonderful military. Thanks so much for all you do Blake and all our military. Becky ps. And R Jewel, your note was great too. You are right, even as a mother of a past 101st and now Ranger, we will always feel a sort of family to our 101st soldiers and families. A bond. Hooah! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/getting_to_the_fight.html#comment-31874 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/getting_to_the_fight.html#comment-31874 Thu, 15 Sep 2005 00:30:55 -0600 strong ties to the 101st ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/getting_to_the_fight.html#comment-31843 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/getting_to_the_fight.html#comment-31843 Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:06:58 -0600 Ah yes, good old Keflavik. I spent 2 1/2 years there. Back then, the military and civilian terminals were in the same building. Every Wed. morning, the rotator flight from McGuire would come in about the same time as the Iceland Air flight from Chicago. The poor civilians would get through customs and exit the building expecting to see whatever they imagined Iceland to be like and instead would see a whole group of U.S. military people in uniform clustered around the doors hungrily looking for their replacements. It would be quite a shock to some of the civilians (expecially the dovish types) who had no idea that the international airport for Iceland was smack in the middle of a U.S. military base. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/getting_to_the_fight.html#comment-31841 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/getting_to_the_fight.html#comment-31841 Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:32:52 -0600