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/2006/10/leopards_spotted_in_afghanistan.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:47:38 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Somebody else didn't get the memo... remember this little bit of cargo the AF took to Afstan? The Dutch SP howitzer? Looks like someone else didn't get the memo on "We don't need no steenking heavy tracked vehicles to fight in the 'Stan!" that Rummy and crowd put out. Those contrarian Canuckistanians! One can't help but wonder that if we'd gone in with the 1st CAV and 4th ID, if they'd be going in with nothing but the PPCLI... ;^) 'Spirit of McChord' gives Canadians a lift by Master Sgt. Mitch Gettle 376th Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs 10/10/2006 -... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/10/leopards_spotted_in_afghanistan.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/10/leopards_spotted_in_afghanistan.html Fri, 13 Oct 2006 07:54:26 -0600 If the Stryker Brigade had been ready on schedule (4Q FY 01, IIRC) does anyone doubt that they would have been airlifted into A-stan? (If only because the Army would have wanted to prove the concept on it's new toys). As it was, they ended up lifting in the Marines old LAV-25s. Armor, both heavy and light, can be useful in the mountains, as long as you're not depedant on it, and you remember it's role is to support the Infantry. If they'd only been a year behind schedule, they would have been lifted into northern Iraq to follow the SETAF boys, and there wouldn't have been all that mucking around with Turkey and the 4ID. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/10/leopards_spotted_in_afghanistan.html#comment-51571 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/10/leopards_spotted_in_afghanistan.html#comment-51571 Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:14:37 -0600 sleek and svelte at a mere 50 tons. yummy. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/10/leopards_spotted_in_afghanistan.html#comment-51570 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/10/leopards_spotted_in_afghanistan.html#comment-51570 Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:12:42 -0600 Leopards are spotted all over. 'Specially if the crew doesn't drape the cammo properly... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/10/leopards_spotted_in_afghanistan.html#comment-51568 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/10/leopards_spotted_in_afghanistan.html#comment-51568 Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:03:13 -0600