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/2006/05/transformation_oif_style.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:53:02 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification I wrote this post *before* I heard the news about the Canadian Gunner dying in an infantry firefight. It's been a while since an artilleryman has died at the hands of another artilleryman. I have a buddy from the old days, recently selected for Brigadier General. Back in the day, while sitting in our Hummers, watching the Toad fumble his way down the Central Corridor to die on the obstacles of the OPFOR out by The Alligator at the NTC, we talked of the future. Of course, He Who Just Got Selected For BG was sure he was going to... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/05/transformation_oif_style.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/05/transformation_oif_style.html Thu, 18 May 2006 07:42:39 -0600 Umm, "asymmetry". Sorry. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/05/transformation_oif_style.html#comment-45481 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/05/transformation_oif_style.html#comment-45481 Fri, 19 May 2006 21:06:41 -0600 Axial assymetry in the C. of G. of the shells' contents due to having been laid on their sides for too long? Don't the rifling take care of that? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/05/transformation_oif_style.html#comment-45480 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/05/transformation_oif_style.html#comment-45480 Fri, 19 May 2006 21:03:28 -0600 Umm, could the Armorer or somebody enlighten me about the the hinder meaning of the Chief's commment above? I mean, did that beat up their rotating bands, or just get them all dirty and rusty, or had they been stacked there like that for so long that they'd all plastically flowed into oval shapes, or what? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/05/transformation_oif_style.html#comment-45479 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/05/transformation_oif_style.html#comment-45479 Fri, 19 May 2006 20:57:23 -0600 soooooo frikkin' happy I knew enough to switch from HE. After I landed to drop off some souvenirs for 'em(yeah, we got the gun. With an OV-10), I looked around for their ammo storage area. All the beeg boolets--Willie Petes included--were stacked neat as cordwood. Lying on their sides. The rounds must've looked like uncoiling Slinkys when they left the tube... ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/05/transformation_oif_style.html#comment-45423 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/05/transformation_oif_style.html#comment-45423 Thu, 18 May 2006 12:55:24 -0600 Heh. You were an FAOBC and FACBOC grad, it's not like you shouldn't have *known*... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/05/transformation_oif_style.html#comment-45415 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/05/transformation_oif_style.html#comment-45415 Thu, 18 May 2006 10:52:00 -0600 burst. Soooooo frikkin' happy I switched from HE...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/05/transformation_oif_style.html#comment-45414 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/05/transformation_oif_style.html#comment-45414 Thu, 18 May 2006 10:42:45 -0600 Yeah, there's a powerful huge CEP at range for those puppies... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/05/transformation_oif_style.html#comment-45407 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/05/transformation_oif_style.html#comment-45407 Thu, 18 May 2006 07:55:39 -0600 12.7mm HMG in antihelicopter mode sited at 1 each canal junction, making ID'ing a 10-digit grid a snap and sending 1 each call for fire to 1 each battery of one-seven-fives located 32 each klicks away. Adjust fire phase = Ubique... ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/05/transformation_oif_style.html#comment-45406 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/05/transformation_oif_style.html#comment-45406 Thu, 18 May 2006 07:40:56 -0600