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/2005/10/getting_to_the_fight_part_5.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:59:35 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Blake, retired soldier turned civil-servant-in-the-assault, reports in from "Somewhere Not In The USA." I can attest to the fact that the Army is getting serious about the OPSEC aspects of things (especially blogging) and have some pretty interesting briefs up (all FOUO or better, so I can't share) on *why* they are doing that. And some very good milbloggers we all know and like sadly figure prominently in those briefs (no, I won't name names except to say Argghhh! has not attracted any officially-mentioned attention - it's all deployed guys describing ops). My visit logs do show visits from the... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/10/getting_to_the_fight_part_5.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/10/getting_to_the_fight_part_5.html Mon, 03 Oct 2005 06:35:03 -0600 Au contraire, us Safety types *do* have a sense of humor. We also have a sense of propriety, so we don't exercise the former at work, particularly when said work is poking through the aluminum mulch surrounding a smoking hole in the ground... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/10/getting_to_the_fight_part_5.html#comment-32479 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/10/getting_to_the_fight_part_5.html#comment-32479 Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:25:22 -0600 2 thoughts: 1. Safety people, I have found, have no sense of humor and are therefore, never amused. 2. The same timeframe as mentioned above, I was living in Landstuhl Housing (while assigned to the 86TFW at Ramstein). My quarters were between the Hsopital helopad and the Army medivac unit's (UH-60s) ops area. I used to sit on my balcony and watch the choppers fly over to the helo pad to pick up patients. I told my cousin about this, who was a full-time guard technician at a unit that had just transitioned from the venerable UH-1 to the Blackhawk. He warned me that watching a Blackhawk in flight for more than 90 seconds could subject me to testifying to an accident board. He had been a crew chief on CH-47s in Nam and had worked the venerable Huey since joining the guard and was, aparently, not impressed with the Blackhawk, at the time. However, I am thankful to say, the Army did seem to get the bugs worked out (most of them anyway) as they are sure flying a lot of sorties here in Iraq with an outstanding safety record. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/10/getting_to_the_fight_part_5.html#comment-32477 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/10/getting_to_the_fight_part_5.html#comment-32477 Mon, 03 Oct 2005 12:46:38 -0600 It took the Army over a week to admit to itself that a Black Hawk could go ka-blooey in mid-air. And, during that week, the Rucker MPs were busily rounding up witnesses and explaining to them that they didn't really see what they'd reported seeing. One of them (a Warrant, naturally) asked, "So what *did* I see--swamp gas or the planet Venus?" Safety Center was not amused... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/10/getting_to_the_fight_part_5.html#comment-32469 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/10/getting_to_the_fight_part_5.html#comment-32469 Mon, 03 Oct 2005 08:41:00 -0600