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/2007/02/more_obscene_am_1.html Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:38:20 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Down, ladies. Really. This is serious stuff. I'm being fully supportive of my buddy Bill Arkin by showing all you nugs out there the obscene amenities we soldiers are lavished with by a duped public and fawning Congress. [Photo moved to the Flash Traffic/Extended entry, since there have been a few heart attacks. *I* think it's work-safe, but apparently some workplaces are *really uptight*. They better be blocking National Geographic, too...] Ah, the showers. Standing on the ammo box, sun-warmed water from the bucket cascading down, sloughing away the accumulated grime from traveling to far places, meeting exotic people, and... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/more_obscene_am_1.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/more_obscene_am_1.html Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:36:58 -0600 The first thing that came to my mind ... Whose a$$ is THAT???!!!! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/more_obscene_am_1.html#comment-57036 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/more_obscene_am_1.html#comment-57036 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:25:23 -0600 Well, like I told Bloodspite - if you trust the Postal Service, send 'em to me and I'll scan 'em. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/more_obscene_am_1.html#comment-57017 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/more_obscene_am_1.html#comment-57017 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:49:39 -0600 They're at home...need to scan 'em somehow...will work on it. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/more_obscene_am_1.html#comment-57015 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/more_obscene_am_1.html#comment-57015 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:35:37 -0600 So, cough 'em up, flyboy. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/more_obscene_am_1.html#comment-57014 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/more_obscene_am_1.html#comment-57014 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:07:02 -0600 Hey Heartless, Which one were you in Albania? Bet my mud pictures are betterrn' yours! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/more_obscene_am_1.html#comment-57011 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/more_obscene_am_1.html#comment-57011 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:00:25 -0600 I think I need to dig up my pics of TF Hawk in Albania...my tent in Mudville. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/more_obscene_am_1.html#comment-57008 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/more_obscene_am_1.html#comment-57008 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:16:49 -0600 tell me about it. that's how i caught the Louisiana Guard tankers who were using the gun tube cooler, but actually threw some crushed ice down there too. i was pulling OC duty evaluating these cajuns up at Peason Ridge (north of Fort Polk), and when they never had their tubes level and scanning i initially thought they had some turret problems with elevating.. then they had the electrical short. ice melt had dripped past the breech block and down thru the bananas and run thru the wiring harness. no ammo on board, no fire, but that smell stays with me... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/more_obscene_am_1.html#comment-57005 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/more_obscene_am_1.html#comment-57005 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:30:01 -0600 Hey MajMike... You got me remembering.. we used to heat C's on the manifold of the Jeep (M151) while cruising down the road. Was cool, until a can of beans and meatballs exploded under the hood. Cripes! Aside from scaring the *%(87 out of all of us (as we're going down the strasse), there was small dent/bulge in the hood where the can popped, and there beans and sauce all over the engine compartment. And it stank for weeks, and it was baked on. Oh, and we used to use the gun tube (with cover on of course to store cans of soda, until one of those frooze and popped and then it all ran down into the breech when it thawed, etc... Yuch... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/more_obscene_am_1.html#comment-57004 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/more_obscene_am_1.html#comment-57004 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:07:58 -0600 take the cover off the coax banana box on the turret floor, and wedge that sucker up under the heater exhaust pipe (just fwd of the right sponson at the back of the right front fender), that makes the perfect shelf upon which to rest a steel pot of precious water for the hot making, with which the bathing is that much more the nicey-nice.... ahhhhh.... ...and now i guess i've got to find some way to digitize the pix of when we blew up the Doha motor pool. sigh... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/more_obscene_am_1.html#comment-56992 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/more_obscene_am_1.html#comment-56992 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:47:38 -0600 Scanner. Must....find scanner....send pictures. Bwahahahaha http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/more_obscene_am_1.html#comment-56989 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/more_obscene_am_1.html#comment-56989 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:42:51 -0600 Actually, we used to take Aussie Showers in Hawaii, on the Big Island... I have to say there is really something to be said for standing buck naked in the middlw of an open field and just not giving a rat's butt who see's you. And of course, it felt good... But we didn't have the hardware (no pun, NO PUN) to hang the shower on, so we used GP Medium tent poles 100mph taped as a fraem-up. I've got a pic like this, one, but no cool tanks so I won't send it. Plus, I'm sure Arkin would focus on the fact we were in Hawaii as the real benefit. Yeah, at +/-10K feet ASL surrounded by a hundred miles of lava rock and two volcanos, one of which erupted a month after we left there... Yeah, paradise.... Which was quite the opposite of one winter exercise in FRG where we all got to smelling so bad I just had to make the team wash more than their feet and change their socks (that done every day, twice a day). We put a poncho down on top of frozen earth we'd scraped a foot of snow from, we boiled water in a steel water can (fire built around it) and we all stripped and washed, one at a time. It was around 30-40 degrees that day, and nice 'cause the wind wasn't blowing. And shaved, and what have you, and as cold as it was--man, did everyone feel better with clean clothes, etc. Of course we had to air out the vehicle and I made everyone lay their sleeping bags out, etc.. It had been a long 4-5 days, and we had another 3-5 to go. Of course, being the Team Leader, I had to go first, to show the two Southern boys and the New York City guy nothin' would freeze off or crawl back up inside to get away from the cold.... S'ok with me, I got the hotest water. But I have to say, steel pots were made for that, and after the kevlar came out it got harder to do that kind of thing. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/more_obscene_am_1.html#comment-56987 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/more_obscene_am_1.html#comment-56987 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:34:48 -0600 much as i am loathe to comment on a pic with a naked dude in it... (well, i guess it's okay cuz he's obviously a tanker too) that's a mighty fine panzer there. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/more_obscene_am_1.html#comment-56986 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/more_obscene_am_1.html#comment-56986 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:17:42 -0600