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/2006/01/ahhhhhhhhhhh.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:57:14 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Stuff for a Redleg's soul. Bravo Battery, 2nd Battalion, 20th Field Artillery, 4th Fires Brigade, fire a rocket from a Multiple Launch Rocket System during a tactical mission from Forward Operations Base Q-West. Qayyarah, Iraq in Support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. CREDIT U.S. ARMY PHOTO: SSG James H. Christopher III. (RELEASED) CPT Michael Blankartz BDE / PAO CAMP COURAGE MOSUL The target must have been a bunch of guys in the open, away from anything else - that's a big hammer in the Current Operating Environment, with a huge impact footprint for the bomblets, and the associated duds - which... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/01/ahhhhhhhhhhh.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/01/ahhhhhhhhhhh.html Fri, 13 Jan 2006 07:57:29 -0600 'Straw, Grass Horse's....'!"]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/01/ahhhhhhhhhhh.html#comment-38711 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/01/ahhhhhhhhhhh.html#comment-38711 Sat, 14 Jan 2006 19:39:41 -0600 Huh? What? #82 you say? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/01/ahhhhhhhhhhh.html#comment-38709 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/01/ahhhhhhhhhhh.html#comment-38709 Sat, 14 Jan 2006 19:29:24 -0600 M110 battery and yours truly, waiting to take the BC and cohorts up for a little Aerial Adjustment. No, it doesn't have anything to do with your radio. "Hey, Chief--y'ever spend any time with guns?" *hand cupping ear, hollering* "Huh?!?" *standard laughter for standard joke* "Yeah, I've yanked a couple of lanyards in my time." "How 'bout one of these? You ain't lived 'til ya yanked an eight-incher..."" ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/01/ahhhhhhhhhhh.html#comment-38708 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/01/ahhhhhhhhhhh.html#comment-38708 Sat, 14 Jan 2006 19:26:54 -0600 We'd rather be all off on our own, not having to associate with you riff-raff... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/01/ahhhhhhhhhhh.html#comment-38698 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/01/ahhhhhhhhhhh.html#comment-38698 Sat, 14 Jan 2006 15:49:00 -0600 Blake: The 2-1-1 org is descended from 2WW Lessons Learned. Basically, an Infantry organisation should have 2 infantry components and 1 tank component; an Armoured organisation should have 2 infantry and 2 tank components. Each organisation would have 1 artillery component, otherwise the latter would become pouty. Cheers JMH http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/01/ahhhhhhhhhhh.html#comment-38697 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/01/ahhhhhhhhhhh.html#comment-38697 Sat, 14 Jan 2006 15:47:13 -0600 Huh. "Fires Brigade" Is that related to the "SugarButtons Brigade"? Perhaps a long lost cousin. A really hawt one.... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/01/ahhhhhhhhhhh.html#comment-38601 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/01/ahhhhhhhhhhh.html#comment-38601 Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:38:27 -0600 >hzz. name fires brigade same thing as hy'umuns what ride big red truck. not be worrying--scrup'ls also not seeing in color, either. >>hzzzz. fires brigade. hy'umuns talk funny.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/01/ahhhhhhhhhhh.html#comment-38589 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/01/ahhhhhhhhhhh.html#comment-38589 Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:56:52 -0600 Y'know, I knew that, having used that munition in the work that I do. Just goes to show how you revert to type when you haven't smelled burning powder in a long time. Thanks! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/01/ahhhhhhhhhhh.html#comment-38588 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/01/ahhhhhhhhhhh.html#comment-38588 Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:55:51 -0600 Lockheed Matin ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/01/ahhhhhhhhhhh.html#comment-38587 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/01/ahhhhhhhhhhh.html#comment-38587 Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:52:16 -0600 Well, in the new light division structure, there is no "Fires Brigade." Instead each of the Brigade Combat Teams gets its very own organic artillery battalion, currently equipped with 105mm towed howitzers. Me, I have my doubts that the new "2 Inf + 1 Cav + 1 Arty + supports" structure is robust enough, but the name of the game these days is getting more deployable brigades out of the same amount of manpower, and the planners never asked my opinion anyway. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/01/ahhhhhhhhhhh.html#comment-38574 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/01/ahhhhhhhhhhh.html#comment-38574 Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:57:32 -0600 *pats John on the shoulder sympathetically* http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/01/ahhhhhhhhhhh.html#comment-38568 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/01/ahhhhhhhhhhh.html#comment-38568 Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:49:03 -0600