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/2006/08/huh_the_world_didnt_stop_while_i_was_gone.html Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:55:50 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Worse, it doesn't seem to have noticed I wasn't there. Maj. Jennifer Bailey, from the 101st Abv Div G4 shop, where she works as the Division-Level Aviation Maintenance Officer is seen here on a Civil Action Missino organizes by the 402nd Civil Affairs Battalion. Major Bailey reads a children’s book to Iraqi girls during a humanitarian mission near Tikrit, Iraq. Photo by Staff Sgt. Russell Klika. In more News You Won't See in the MSM: COALITION FORCES CAPTURE FIVE TERRORISTS COALITION FORCES SUCCESSFULLY TARGET TERRORIST IN BAGHDAD COALITION FORCES CAPTURE WANTED TERRORIST LEADER COALITION FORCES DETAIN TWO SENIOR AL-QAIDA IN... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/huh_the_world_didnt_stop_while_i_was_gone.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/huh_the_world_didnt_stop_while_i_was_gone.html Tue, 01 Aug 2006 14:27:08 -0600 [Wipes verbal poo off monitor] http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/huh_the_world_didnt_stop_while_i_was_gone.html#comment-48583 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/huh_the_world_didnt_stop_while_i_was_gone.html#comment-48583 Thu, 03 Aug 2006 05:17:33 -0600 Draftee - got some issues, do we? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/huh_the_world_didnt_stop_while_i_was_gone.html#comment-48581 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/huh_the_world_didnt_stop_while_i_was_gone.html#comment-48581 Wed, 02 Aug 2006 20:52:21 -0600 GI Jane take your hat off. A wonder she's not wearing a row of grenades for the camera. I'm sure the bundled up Major left a lasting impression. Love it when the bunker humpers do their PR bit. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/huh_the_world_didnt_stop_while_i_was_gone.html#comment-48579 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/huh_the_world_didnt_stop_while_i_was_gone.html#comment-48579 Wed, 02 Aug 2006 20:31:30 -0600 Sigh. Well, at least we can fix *that* much at *this* site! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/huh_the_world_didnt_stop_while_i_was_gone.html#comment-48559 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/huh_the_world_didnt_stop_while_i_was_gone.html#comment-48559 Wed, 02 Aug 2006 07:36:36 -0600 We're having problems with semi-competent captioners over here again. Actually, MAJ Bailey works in the 101st Abn Div G4, where I am currently hanging my hat. Her desk is about 15 feet where I'm sitting as I type this, and the "misrepresentation" of her unit in the official caption on the picture has been a source of some amusement in our workspace for the past couple of days. She's a nice lady, and is pretty durned good at what she does, which being the division-level aviation maintenance staff officer. And in defense of the caption writier, the civil action mission on which MAJ Bailey was photographed WAS organized and led by the 402nd CA. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/huh_the_world_didnt_stop_while_i_was_gone.html#comment-48555 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/huh_the_world_didnt_stop_while_i_was_gone.html#comment-48555 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 21:46:50 -0600 [Stomps in the kitchen] Hey ry whatcha cookin'? [opens oven] Gee your cake is deflating what did you do wrong? Good work on the postive news. One of my main gripes with the war is so little postive news is reported in world mainstream media. In a way I guess blogs balance that. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/huh_the_world_didnt_stop_while_i_was_gone.html#comment-48554 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/huh_the_world_didnt_stop_while_i_was_gone.html#comment-48554 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 20:31:01 -0600 "This would be the same beret-wearing Brits who don't move around Basra all that much anymore." I'm a working on a post about that one(based on that op-ed you sent me). Don't ruin it. (Like a souffles it'll turn to crap if you open the oven before it's done or make loud noises). http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/huh_the_world_didnt_stop_while_i_was_gone.html#comment-48553 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/huh_the_world_didnt_stop_while_i_was_gone.html#comment-48553 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 20:11:31 -0600 A subject of much discussion. One the Brits made pointed references to. This would be the same beret-wearing Brits who don't move around Basra all that much anymore. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/huh_the_world_didnt_stop_while_i_was_gone.html#comment-48552 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/huh_the_world_didnt_stop_while_i_was_gone.html#comment-48552 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:34:20 -0600 Always glad to see soldiers doing good deeds. I have to say, however, that it's somewhat sad to see the Major wearing a helmet while the two little girls beside her aren't. I wonder how much the dehumanizing aspects of combat kit affect the 'hearts and minds' mission? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/huh_the_world_didnt_stop_while_i_was_gone.html#comment-48551 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/huh_the_world_didnt_stop_while_i_was_gone.html#comment-48551 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:20:39 -0600