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/unusual_strike_packages.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:49:03 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification From an email. In October 1965, CDR Clarence J. Stoddard, Executive Officer of VA-25 "Fist of the Fleet", flying an A-1H Skyraider, NE/572 "Paper Tiger II" from Carrier Air Wing Two aboard USS Midway carried a special bomb to the North Vietnamese in commemoration of the 6 millionth pound of ordinance dropped. This bomb was unique because of the type... it was a toilet! The following is an account of this event, courtesy of Clint Johnson, Captain, USNR Ret. Captain Johnson was one of the two VA-25 A-1 Skyraider pilots credited with shooting down a MiG-17 on June 20,... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/unusual_strike_packages.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/unusual_strike_packages.html Fri, 01 Sep 2006 10:34:47 -0600 I'm unreliably informed by a pilot that a piano launched off a flight deck over Hong Kong harbour will be easily visible by the castors glowing red by the time it leaves the deck. This was the same source who claimed to have been involved in sticking a tank barrel through a window of the officers mess and firing a blank during a formal dinner. I personally never moved beyond a coleslaw greanade myself. Actually I don't even know what that is. I also have no kowledge of what a "dog food mortar" is. Well ok sure the yelling of "left stick, left stick, drop ramp, drop ramp" into the radio during a major mech inf assault was atributed me but I deny all knowledge of any such event. I also had nothing to do with an entire infantry platoon (less the shiny new plt cmd) getting up and moving one ridge line over in the middle of the night. My father also wants it known that he and other un-named chiefs of the Royalist did not at anytime fit out their mess with carpet from the RY Britania and they certainly never inflated at 40 man raft in the captains cabin. These day people wouldn't have to make such claifications or denials. Sad really. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/unusual_strike_packages.html#comment-49996 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/unusual_strike_packages.html#comment-49996 Sun, 03 Sep 2006 01:55:24 -0600 Naval ordnance manuals call this the "Mk VI SH1T" device: "Smelly, High Impact, Toilet". LOL http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/unusual_strike_packages.html#comment-49943 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/unusual_strike_packages.html#comment-49943 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 12:09:36 -0600 Negative knowledge this location as to which explosive compound might have been the filler. Ewwww for asking the question! Regardless of how obvious it was... 8^D http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/unusual_strike_packages.html#comment-49939 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/unusual_strike_packages.html#comment-49939 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 09:54:22 -0600 the real question is: Which costs more the 'saniflush' special or the regular package next to it. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/unusual_strike_packages.html#comment-49938 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/unusual_strike_packages.html#comment-49938 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 09:53:13 -0600 Was it 'loaded' or was it just a inert package? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/unusual_strike_packages.html#comment-49937 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/unusual_strike_packages.html#comment-49937 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 09:51:25 -0600 I don't think I'm ever going to be able to say "...and the kitchen sink" with a straight face ever again. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/unusual_strike_packages.html#comment-49932 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/unusual_strike_packages.html#comment-49932 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 09:26:52 -0600 I can only imagine what the VC/NVA on the ground must have thought....hear a whistling noise, look up and see a toilet incoming. Incredible Psyops act, if naught else! Thanks for passing that story along to all of us. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/unusual_strike_packages.html#comment-49931 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/unusual_strike_packages.html#comment-49931 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 09:16:10 -0600 Puts a new meaning to: The Schiß Hit die Lüfter http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/unusual_strike_packages.html#comment-49927 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/unusual_strike_packages.html#comment-49927 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 08:00:17 -0600