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/2005/12/seaman_petty_officer_2nd_class_stethem.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:58:02 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification I was going to post on this next - but Bloodspite did it every bit as well as I would have.... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/seaman_petty_officer_2nd_class_stethem.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/seaman_petty_officer_2nd_class_stethem.html Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:15:07 -0600 Dang double post sorry bout that! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/seaman_petty_officer_2nd_class_stethem.html#comment-36743 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/seaman_petty_officer_2nd_class_stethem.html#comment-36743 Tue, 20 Dec 2005 17:06:35 -0600 He told both your sisters, eh? Wise man... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/seaman_petty_officer_2nd_class_stethem.html#comment-36736 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/seaman_petty_officer_2nd_class_stethem.html#comment-36736 Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:43:15 -0600 While growing up my Dad (Chief Petty Officer, Aviation Ordnance) used to tell my sister when she got ready to start dating: Never trust a man who wears white and calls himself a Seamen. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/seaman_petty_officer_2nd_class_stethem.html#comment-36732 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/seaman_petty_officer_2nd_class_stethem.html#comment-36732 Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:57:55 -0600 While growing up my Dad (Chief Petty Officer, Aviation Ordnance) used to tell my sister when she got ready to start dating: Never trust a man who wears white and calls himself a Seamen. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/seaman_petty_officer_2nd_class_stethem.html#comment-36731 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/seaman_petty_officer_2nd_class_stethem.html#comment-36731 Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:56:11 -0600 All *I* know is that every time I stayed at a Navy Lodge, I sure got better rooms than I ever got in the 'Q! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/seaman_petty_officer_2nd_class_stethem.html#comment-36730 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/seaman_petty_officer_2nd_class_stethem.html#comment-36730 Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:39:30 -0600 Lex handle that one. All I know is that all those other forces made their officers Lieutenants way too quick.... ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/seaman_petty_officer_2nd_class_stethem.html#comment-36729 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/seaman_petty_officer_2nd_class_stethem.html#comment-36729 Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:37:03 -0600 and the Navy has the easiest of all rank structures" If that's so, why does a Navy Captain get paid so much more than an Army, Air Force or Marine Captain? *Something* in the way the Navy designates people has confused the daylights out of the Finance Office... ...or could it be advance hazard pay for manning the conn all the way to the bottom?]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/seaman_petty_officer_2nd_class_stethem.html#comment-36722 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/seaman_petty_officer_2nd_class_stethem.html#comment-36722 Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:07:50 -0600 Petty Officer 2nd Class (E-5), actually, vs. Seaman (E-3). Sheesh, and the Navy has the easiest of all rank structures ;-) As for the Germans - they let him fly back to Lebanon even though the US had expressed a desire to prosecute? Niiiiiice. With friends like these... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/seaman_petty_officer_2nd_class_stethem.html#comment-36720 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/seaman_petty_officer_2nd_class_stethem.html#comment-36720 Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:58:17 -0600 http://www.nationalreview.com/robbins/robbins200405030839.asp Zarqawi, who claimed credit for having ordered the attack, affirmed the intent to undertake the bombing, but denied that there were chemical weapons involved, saying that the confessions were the result of torture. Another report from Jordan claimed that the chemicals, like the other supplies, came from Syria. It brought to mind the stories that were circulating in the press over a year ago that Iraqi WMDs were being transported in large numbers to Syria. The Iraq-Syrian border is difficult enough to seal now; at the time it was wide open. It would be an interesting development if 20 of the 1,000 tons of chemical weapons that the Blix report found unaccounted for in Iraq turned up in Jordan]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/seaman_petty_officer_2nd_class_stethem.html#comment-36719 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/seaman_petty_officer_2nd_class_stethem.html#comment-36719 Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:54:24 -0600 LONDON — Syria has signed a pledge to store Iranian nuclear weapons and missiles. Should read: LONDON — Syria has signed a pledge to be targets number 1 through "No stone left standing one upon the other" in the Air Tasking Order by storing Iranian nuclear weapons and missiles.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/seaman_petty_officer_2nd_class_stethem.html#comment-36717 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/seaman_petty_officer_2nd_class_stethem.html#comment-36717 Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:46:35 -0600 >>> Syria? http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/05/front2453724.9659722224.html]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/seaman_petty_officer_2nd_class_stethem.html#comment-36712 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/seaman_petty_officer_2nd_class_stethem.html#comment-36712 Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:38:12 -0600