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/2006/11/allies.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:46:30 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification KEEPING WATCH � Polish army soldiers assigned to Multi-National Division Central - South, Camp Echo, Iraq, provide security for U.S. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 3 personnel and 8th Iraqi Army Division soldiers as they search the home of a suspected insurgent, Nov. 20, 2006, in the village of Al Naimi, Iraq. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Dawn M. Price Other Allies: Canada in Kandahar, just can't get no respect from their press.... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/11/allies.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/11/allies.html Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:31:59 -0600 OK, I search Army and AF PAO image sites...where do I find this particular pic? Because I'm certain that there's a bunch of AK owners, myself included, who'd be interested in such a mount. It's not using the standard mount on the left side of the receiver. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/11/allies.html#comment-53592 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/11/allies.html#comment-53592 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:38:26 -0600 When I was colocated with a bunch of eastern bloc soldiers a while back one thing I noticed was how they seemed to adopt a lot of the US doctrine gun handling as well as weapons accessories. I took it as imitation being the highest form of flattery. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/11/allies.html#comment-53571 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/11/allies.html#comment-53571 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:57:23 -0600 Dave - looking at the hi-res picture, it looks like the sight is on a rigid mount that anchors to the receiver at the rear, and the trunnion block up front - i.e., not on the cover at all. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/11/allies.html#comment-53557 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/11/allies.html#comment-53557 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:31:11 -0600 We must be bribing them with EOTech sights...no soldier can resist cool toys like that (although, admittedly, they're about #3 on the list of irresistable things, after hot chix and free beer.) Be interesting to learn how they lock down the receiver cover on that AK variant, so the CCO mounted up top doesn't wobble all over. Oh, and based on the curve of the mag, it looks like that's a 5.56mm AK. [/gungeek] http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/11/allies.html#comment-53553 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/11/allies.html#comment-53553 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:02:41 -0600 I do... as hard as I try to forget about that man and the insane things he's said, I just can't do it. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/11/allies.html#comment-53552 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/11/allies.html#comment-53552 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:51:54 -0600 AFSister, You remember that Kerry called them the coalition of "the bribed, the coerced, the bought and the extorted", dontcha? LOL http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/11/allies.html#comment-53549 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/11/allies.html#comment-53549 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:36:37 -0600 But John! I thought we were all alone in Irak... without any support from our allies. Just those big, oppressive United States bullies, invading someone's country, and imposing democracy on them. Shame on us.... NOT. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/11/allies.html#comment-53547 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/11/allies.html#comment-53547 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:08:15 -0600