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/welcome_home_kansas_redlegs.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:47:31 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification ...and other news of militant Kansans. First up... an award for valor to a Kansas City, Kansas native, Specialist Anthony Tonasket: (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Richard Phelps, 2nd Bn, 137th Inf. Regt. UPAR, 38th DISCOM, MND-B)"> CAMP SLAYER, Iraq Spc. Anthony Tonasket (right), a native of Kansas City, Kan., is awarded the Purple Heart, Combat Action Badge and Army Commendation Medal with a "V" device for Valor by Col. James Trafton, commander, 2nd Battalion, 137th Infantry Regiment, 38th Divisional Support Command, MultiNational Division, Baghdad, during an awards ceremony for his actions during an attack on his convoy March 7.... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/10/welcome_home_kansas_redlegs.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/10/welcome_home_kansas_redlegs.html Wed, 18 Oct 2006 07:13:30 -0600 On the jihaha pulling his hair out: Let us devoutly hope that they test the bomb on themselves to make sure it has been disabled... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/10/welcome_home_kansas_redlegs.html#comment-51784 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/10/welcome_home_kansas_redlegs.html#comment-51784 Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:16:05 -0600 Welcome home, heroes! Phred Reed and Phred Felps must be related. I wonder what would happen if those two were to ever meet? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/10/welcome_home_kansas_redlegs.html#comment-51783 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/10/welcome_home_kansas_redlegs.html#comment-51783 Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:14:11 -0600 Those IED hunting Armored Trucks are positively useful in their task. My friend John Atkinson (http://castrorum.blogspot.com/) has positively raved about those trucks and how the IED crew in their AO positively feared their truck. The AIF IED builders would spend days setting up an IED only to see it found and disabled by the teleoperated robot arm. They kept having to patrol ad different times because the IED crew kept planting their little gifts at different times and they'd patrol at a new time catch it fresh and disable it. Some poor hajji was probably pulling his bear hair out by it's roots after the 10th one. :-D http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/10/welcome_home_kansas_redlegs.html#comment-51768 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/10/welcome_home_kansas_redlegs.html#comment-51768 Wed, 18 Oct 2006 19:13:03 -0600 Exploiting Willing Missorui Bloggers? *perk* I may know a few across the border in Arkansas who might be willing as well in our little "quad-state" area down here. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/10/welcome_home_kansas_redlegs.html#comment-51740 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/10/welcome_home_kansas_redlegs.html#comment-51740 Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:47:14 -0600 YAY! Another group of American Heros, back on US soil. FANTASTIC! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/10/welcome_home_kansas_redlegs.html#comment-51732 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/10/welcome_home_kansas_redlegs.html#comment-51732 Wed, 18 Oct 2006 07:30:38 -0600 Welcome home, soldiers! Thank you for a job well done! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/10/welcome_home_kansas_redlegs.html#comment-51731 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/10/welcome_home_kansas_redlegs.html#comment-51731 Wed, 18 Oct 2006 07:22:05 -0600