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/2006/02/armorerhome.html Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:11:17 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification No, not really home yet, I'm getting ready to pack and head out the door for this morning's confabulating, but I couldn't let this calumny go undefended! This *is* the Home of the Armorer. This *is* Castle Argghhh! And this, ladies and gents (and undecideds) is the Smorgasbord of Argghhh! What's not to like about this decorating schema? (Plus, it's another reason to Vote For Us!) SWWBO has her own version of the what this is, a sofa-table-thingy or some such term of art. And she's kinda whining about the use I put it to prolly less than 24 hours... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/02/armorerhome.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/02/armorerhome.html Fri, 10 Feb 2006 06:00:38 -0600 His twin brother stayed longer--and his last owner hasn't checked into the net this week, so I can't ask him if he managed to keep the souvenir hunters at 90th Repl Depot from stealing it. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/02/armorerhome.html#comment-40564 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/02/armorerhome.html#comment-40564 Fri, 10 Feb 2006 21:06:42 -0600 Ah, the Admiral returneth from his looong voyage. Welcome back. I admit I got tired of polishing the brass, and Marvin just bitched about doing it. Bill - that pistol was carried in WWII, Korea, and early Vietnam by a Marine Colonel. The family was liquidating assets for undisclosed reasons after his death. I took the pistol off their hands and made a promise that if they wanted it back within 15 years I'd let 'em have it for the purchase price. 5 years to go. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/02/armorerhome.html#comment-40563 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/02/armorerhome.html#comment-40563 Fri, 10 Feb 2006 20:53:12 -0600 Interior Guard, eh? I tellya, man, if I ever get the estate settled and find I have some play money, I'm gonna get y'all an anti-cat-fur air filter for the place. I reckon the stuff doesn't hurt the loosely-fitted military weapons, (the hand-held ones, anyway) but it can be hell on the 'puters, and I betcha you're more influential with the latter than the former, these days. I recall the time I made snarky remarks about cat hairs in one of yer almost-photomicrographs of one of your prime specimens. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/02/armorerhome.html#comment-40559 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/02/armorerhome.html#comment-40559 Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:04:49 -0600 on the table, rather than next to it. In fact, that's why the 'coffee table' in our living room is kept scrupulously clear of all objects. Not necessarily by us, you understand.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/02/armorerhome.html#comment-40546 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/02/armorerhome.html#comment-40546 Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:34:16 -0600 Boq! Welcome back :-) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/02/armorerhome.html#comment-40540 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/02/armorerhome.html#comment-40540 Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:29:56 -0600 Don't know what's worse, the barnacles encrusting her, or the green algae covering them. Her teak deck hath turn grey, and its brass and copper fittings are pitted and bespoilt. Oh! The Sand Pebbles is a sad-sad sight to behold. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/02/armorerhome.html#comment-40539 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/02/armorerhome.html#comment-40539 Fri, 10 Feb 2006 11:55:25 -0600 Ooop--almost forgot. Boq's on the loose, so the Moat Fleet will prolly get that much-needed de-barnacling over the weekend... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/02/armorerhome.html#comment-40538 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/02/armorerhome.html#comment-40538 Fri, 10 Feb 2006 11:49:44 -0600 That chromed M1911 is a ringer for the one that a certain Vulture carried--*not* this Vulture--to replace the lump of rust he found in his holster the day after he got pulled out of a flooded paddy. The pistol's history wouldn't perchance include a sojourn in the Land of the Two-Way Aerial Gunnery Range ca. '68 through '70, with one of the owners being a pilot and another being an SF E-7, would it? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/02/armorerhome.html#comment-40536 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/02/armorerhome.html#comment-40536 Fri, 10 Feb 2006 11:46:42 -0600 Great set of hatchmarks in that there PIX. Wonder what the Coffee Table did to earn them? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/02/armorerhome.html#comment-40531 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/02/armorerhome.html#comment-40531 Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:29:15 -0600