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/2006/09/contrary_to_your_expectations.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:48:45 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification ...this is *not* the back 40 at the Castle. Nor does it represent an unloading of the basement. Really. Honest. Marines from B Company's 3rd Platoon stand next to one of the many weapons' caches they dug from the ground during Operation Rubicon in Mushin, Iraq, west of Habbaniyah. The Recon Marines unearthed hundreds of mortars, artillery shells, rifles, machines guns, ammunition and improvised explosive device-making materials. Marines found so many caches, they said they could barely make it 100 meters before discovering another buried weapons' site. Just sayin'. Really, Lee, it ain't. (That last is for my local Police... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/contrary_to_your_expectations.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/contrary_to_your_expectations.html Fri, 08 Sep 2006 07:47:06 -0600 JTG, I have a whole stable of Mosins (just about all styles and flavors) and both an SVT rifle and carbine. Plenty of things to push those bullets downrange. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/contrary_to_your_expectations.html#comment-50239 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/contrary_to_your_expectations.html#comment-50239 Sat, 09 Sep 2006 05:52:56 -0600 1. All prudent citizens of a republic should have something like that squirrelled away. 2. 1,000 rounds of 7.62x54? I'm sure yours doesn't work, but did you,ah, know somebody who had a functional Degtyarev? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/contrary_to_your_expectations.html#comment-50234 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/contrary_to_your_expectations.html#comment-50234 Sat, 09 Sep 2006 02:38:44 -0600 buwhahahahahaa!! Just so you know, um.... there's like... a lot of ammo in my car. That's funny, John. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/contrary_to_your_expectations.html#comment-50213 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/contrary_to_your_expectations.html#comment-50213 Fri, 08 Sep 2006 12:07:23 -0600 Well, there was the time, at band camp, er, the front gate, where I was stopped for random searching, and, when I opened the trunk, I said, like, um, y'know, there's, um, uh, well, like, uh, 1,000 rounds of 7.62x54 in there, just, um, so y'know, um'kay? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/contrary_to_your_expectations.html#comment-50210 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/contrary_to_your_expectations.html#comment-50210 Fri, 08 Sep 2006 11:42:10 -0600 hdw, my thoughts as well! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/contrary_to_your_expectations.html#comment-50209 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/contrary_to_your_expectations.html#comment-50209 Fri, 08 Sep 2006 11:33:16 -0600 It never occurred to me that this was from the Castle. I just figured you were cleaning out your car. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/contrary_to_your_expectations.html#comment-50206 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/contrary_to_your_expectations.html#comment-50206 Fri, 08 Sep 2006 09:50:53 -0600 I don't know what is stranger - the fact that those guys have SO many weapons, or the fact that they are in the ground for our boys to find so easily. I mean I guess I would have imagined, based on terrorist rhetoric, that those weapons might have actually been in the hands of fighting men. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/contrary_to_your_expectations.html#comment-50204 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/contrary_to_your_expectations.html#comment-50204 Fri, 08 Sep 2006 09:12:32 -0600