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/2006/06/okayyyy.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:51:56 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification --looks like I've got to re-evaluate my definition of "a lead pipe cinch." Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce the control head for the M118 Smoke Dispenser Now, you may have heard rollicking, primordial laughter emanating from somewhere south of the Delaware Water Gap every time you thought "rockets" about this critter. That was me. Four measley toggle switches, four cheap plastic rotary ID switches -- for *rockets*? *grin* This is what a Rocket Management System looks like. Eat yer heart out, Lex. Okay, back to Smokey Joe. Sometime during the late seventies, some brainiac realized that sending OH-58As... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/06/okayyyy.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/06/okayyyy.html Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:34:28 -0600 I dunno... it does kinda look like a disco light display control panel. Not that I would know anything about dancing under mirror balls, with lots of smoke and lights, and maybe a pole or two... Nope. Not me. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/06/okayyyy.html#comment-46672 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/06/okayyyy.html#comment-46672 Tue, 20 Jun 2006 07:46:33 -0600