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/2007/01/tension_in_the.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:45:11 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification CAPT H sends: Colonel sacked for rebuke over visits to injured. Sean Rayment, writing in the Sunday Telegraph: A high-flying Army officer has been sacked for rebuking a senior commander who failed to visit injured troops in hospital. Col Julian Clover, 43, was dismissed from his post as a staff officer at the Army's Land Command headquarters after clashing with his superior over the need for senior officers to visit troops injured in Afghanistan and Iraq at the Selly Oak hospital in Birmingham. His sacking has sent shock waves through Land Command, the biggest Army headquarters in Britain, and has... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/tension_in_the.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/tension_in_the.html Mon, 08 Jan 2007 07:55:35 -0600 Sad. Kudos to the subordinate and may all he undertakes turn out well for him in future. Since I am not a believer in patron saints but karma, what goes around comes around. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/tension_in_the.html#comment-54885 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/tension_in_the.html#comment-54885 Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:24:37 -0600 It ain't nice to mess with Saint Barbara. I mind my short-fuze childhood experience. I advise the Brigadier to be careful around Bics, gas stoves and flour sifters until this is straightened out up there. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/tension_in_the.html#comment-54863 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/tension_in_the.html#comment-54863 Mon, 08 Jan 2007 22:21:33 -0600 i pray that St George will provide escort and additional firepower (as necessary) to St Barbara as she makes her duly appointed rounds. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/tension_in_the.html#comment-54829 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/tension_in_the.html#comment-54829 Mon, 08 Jan 2007 08:46:06 -0600 Wouldn't be at all surprised if Saint Barbara calls Saints Sebastian and Martin of Tours as backup... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/tension_in_the.html#comment-54827 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/tension_in_the.html#comment-54827 Mon, 08 Jan 2007 08:39:46 -0600 that's how a senior leader should be responding to the wounded and their families--he'd obviously dropped everything to be there in time.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/tension_in_the.html#comment-54826 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/tension_in_the.html#comment-54826 Mon, 08 Jan 2007 08:35:43 -0600