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/kibble_with_mustard.html Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:54:51 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Bill's post below this one, in the closing of which the title of this post appears, reminded me of a TINS. Not because I know what kibble with mustard tastes like, but because... well, that would be getting ahead of myself. January 1, 1970. Fryar Circle (named after Private Elmer Fryar, Medal of Honor recipient), just outside of Sheridan Kaserne, Augsburg, Germany. Home to a tank battalion and an artillery battalion of the 24th ID (FWD). The artillery battalion, the 2nd Battalion, 35th Field Artillery, has just installed a new commanding officer, fresh from commanding a battalion in Vietnam. Back... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/kibble_with_mustard.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/kibble_with_mustard.html Mon, 14 Aug 2006 07:24:37 -0600 Oops! [blushes, stammers, etc.] Sorry about that, Chief! Hey, Asperger's, Alzheimer's, Anheuser's; it's all good... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/kibble_with_mustard.html#comment-49171 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/kibble_with_mustard.html#comment-49171 Wed, 16 Aug 2006 14:39:12 -0600 have I heard *that one* before? Oh, yeah - last week! ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/kibble_with_mustard.html#comment-49073 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/kibble_with_mustard.html#comment-49073 Tue, 15 Aug 2006 05:46:01 -0600 That reminds me of a story, about the guy who was so poor, he had to eat Purina(TM) dog chow for a while. He said it wasn't so bad, until it caused him to wake up in the hospital , with an IV in each arm, and tubes in all of his natural holes, and hooked up to electronic monitors. His interlocutor, shocked, said "so, did it poison you?" "No,", he said, "I was lying in the road licking my butt and got run over by a car." http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/kibble_with_mustard.html#comment-49068 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/kibble_with_mustard.html#comment-49068 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 23:25:51 -0600 Thank you, Sir! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/kibble_with_mustard.html#comment-49065 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/kibble_with_mustard.html#comment-49065 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:46:55 -0600 Hi, Mr. Donovan. I am Cricket's #1 CLU. She read this story to me during breakfast and I spitgagged my cranberry juice. She also gave me permission to post this comment to the above story, and to tell you that you and SWWBO have an open invite to our house to tell more stories! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/kibble_with_mustard.html#comment-49064 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/kibble_with_mustard.html#comment-49064 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:51:34 -0600 Ah, Sheridan Kaserne & Fryar Circle! My dad was station in Augsburg three times, the last time when I was in high school.... Daddy worked at Gab the first and last time ('86-'90). I worked a couple of summers at the PX on Sheridan, and my best friend lived in Fryar Circle before they moved into a house in a German neighborhood. I miss Augsburg. And I think it's hysterical that you got a bunch of officers and their wives to eat dog biscuits! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/kibble_with_mustard.html#comment-49057 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/kibble_with_mustard.html#comment-49057 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:36:49 -0600 Enlisted scum. Yep, *that* explains it! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/kibble_with_mustard.html#comment-49051 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/kibble_with_mustard.html#comment-49051 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:47:59 -0600 " ... I *was* the DIVARTY Mess Officer!" Hmmmmm .... maybe that explains those "Lobster" dinners at the Pinder mess hall. I just thought I wasn't "sophisticated" enough to enjoy it. LOL http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/kibble_with_mustard.html#comment-49041 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/kibble_with_mustard.html#comment-49041 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:59:05 -0600 Ah, Sheridan Kaserne... I spent 1991 - 1996 (full 5 years) in Augsburg, both at Flak Kaserne and Sheridan. Worked out at Gablingen, which probably means something to people who were there. Fryar's Circle was still, there, still officer housing, but the gates between it and the base were locked in such a fashion that it was pedestrian traffic only. They shut down the military community (the Arty left soon after Desert Storm) a couple years after I left. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/kibble_with_mustard.html#comment-49040 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/kibble_with_mustard.html#comment-49040 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:58:58 -0600 Duncan lived a long and happy life. And that day he'd been scoring big anyway. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/kibble_with_mustard.html#comment-49036 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/kibble_with_mustard.html#comment-49036 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:15:09 -0600 Ah, but Frank - I *was* the DIVARTY Mess Officer! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/kibble_with_mustard.html#comment-49035 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/kibble_with_mustard.html#comment-49035 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:08:38 -0600 lol you learnt the ways of Zen early i see. I do, however, feel sorry for your starving dog. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/kibble_with_mustard.html#comment-49034 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/kibble_with_mustard.html#comment-49034 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:08:31 -0600 John, Thank God you were the 1-22 S-1 when I was there, instead of S-4! LMAO! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/kibble_with_mustard.html#comment-49030 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/kibble_with_mustard.html#comment-49030 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:35:30 -0600 Brilliant. Link being e-mailed to every base-brat past and present that I know, starting with my Mom. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/kibble_with_mustard.html#comment-49026 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/kibble_with_mustard.html#comment-49026 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 08:56:10 -0600 Well, at least you didn't switch out the Dr. Ballard's as Paté, on the petite bouchée http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/kibble_with_mustard.html#comment-49023 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/kibble_with_mustard.html#comment-49023 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 08:39:26 -0600 Hm...that gives me ideas for when the Castle Pantry runs out of chok'lit and cherries and other delights. I will see what we can do with scr'ple yum yums. The Moat Monster won't be too chuffed, but I digress. Party on. It is Monday morning and NOTHING happened this weekend. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/kibble_with_mustard.html#comment-49022 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/kibble_with_mustard.html#comment-49022 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 08:28:53 -0600 And now you know why we are called 'service brats.' http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/kibble_with_mustard.html#comment-49021 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/kibble_with_mustard.html#comment-49021 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 08:16:45 -0600