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/speaking_of_dej.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:43:17 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification ...as I did elsewhere. How about a stroll down memory lane, pre-VOLAR?*... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/speaking_of_dej.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/speaking_of_dej.html Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:59:06 -0600 A CHAIR!!!! Cripes, how'd you guys get a chair!!!! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/speaking_of_dej.html#comment-56932 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/speaking_of_dej.html#comment-56932 Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:57:12 -0600 Oh, yeah... thanks!! I didn't see this: : used to recruit the stupid, shiftless, and unemployable into the United States Army of Myrmidons. Of course! It was the blue, red, & yellow desks, chairs, and wall lockers that did it for me. That and the 8 man rooms. woo-oo! stupid? yeah, I joined the Army shiftless? well I never worked any shift, never had a job unemployable? likely, didn't know squat, not even which foot was the hay foot and which foot was the straw foot (city boy, din't no thar wuz a differnse....) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/speaking_of_dej.html#comment-56929 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/speaking_of_dej.html#comment-56929 Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:38:51 -0600 Heyyyyy.... That's my volar basic training barracks at Dix (but ours was neater), and the only difference between that and what I lived with in Geramny was... uummm... no spiffy stands or footlockers, AND the heavier duty gray metal bunks and thicker mattresses held together with that cool riot tool otherwise known as a bunk connector. Yeah, I got one better than that... At Hohenfels, which probably doesn't count, 'cause we were glad to be inside for change... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/speaking_of_dej.html#comment-56927 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/speaking_of_dej.html#comment-56927 Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:13:46 -0600 Yeah - that's obscene, all right. But amenities would not be the proper noun... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/speaking_of_dej.html#comment-56924 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/speaking_of_dej.html#comment-56924 Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:23:35 -0600 Nah, Frank. We had VOLAR furniture, anyway. Those white lockers and stuff... Not that I would know, living off-post and all, over in Oberasbach. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/speaking_of_dej.html#comment-56922 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/speaking_of_dej.html#comment-56922 Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:09:55 -0600 Hmmm .... I musta been stuck in some kind of transitional VOLAR Twighlight Zone, 'cause that looks a lot like my billets in the early '80's. Evidently, we didn't get the "obscene amenities". But it sure beat the SAND. LOL http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/speaking_of_dej.html#comment-56921 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/speaking_of_dej.html#comment-56921 Tue, 20 Feb 2007 12:43:44 -0600