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 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/hi_fires_28_apr.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:29:27 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Open post for those with something to share, updated through the day. New, complete posts come in below this one. Note: If trackbacking, please acknowledge this post in your post. That's only polite. You're advertising here, we should get an ad at your place... ***************************** I have to laugh. One day we’re berating the US Army for accepting gangbangers and racists, and the next we’re castigating the Army for trying to find and expunge them. Kind of like how people ranted and raved about how slow gov’t was in response to Katrina but now there’s editorials an inch thick on... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/hi_fires_28_apr.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/hi_fires_28_apr.html Sat, 28 Apr 2007 23:58:17 -0600 JTM got my meaning apparently. The situation is a total goat-f@#$. We should be hopping mad that gang bangers and racists are getting into the military. Looking for them, unless it's white racists dontchaknow, is offensive because we're targeting a minority group---fascistic tendency if the press ever saw one. And AW1 Tim, it isn't simply tats. WGaF about tats? It's a specific set of one's that people get(stuff like the Swastika or one identifying one as a memeber of Loc Tre) that's a problem. It isn't simply tats. This is something that should be considered, but done long before this point in time in someone's service. A new phenomenon is that gangs are sending their junior members into the military. When junior member gets out he comes with a set of skills he teaches to others(like how to shoot without resorting to the stuuuped spray and pray, but telegenic, stance; and how to set up an ambush(if it's another gang I don't care, but ambushing cops, well, that just sucks.). http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/hi_fires_28_apr.html#comment-59572 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/hi_fires_28_apr.html#comment-59572 Mon, 30 Apr 2007 07:37:17 -0600 On the tattoo thing: Back when my Dad was dying, but I thought we could bring him home, if we got the HVAC fixed, the guy who came out to inspect the system turned out to be a very competent, easygoing fella, tolerant of my weirdness, and mine and Dad's horribly bad housekeeping, with a strange device tattooed on his left arm. It had a skull and crossbones, and what looked like the SS runes, and other nasty qualities. I asked him what it was about. He said it was a USMC Scout-Sniper tattoo. I said, Kewel! or words to that effect. He said he'd tried being a policeman for a while after getting out of the Corps, but couldn't go along with the cop attitude and preferred to make an honest living. That's what I remember. I think I wrote about it to Sgt. B at the time http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/hi_fires_28_apr.html#comment-59562 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/hi_fires_28_apr.html#comment-59562 Sun, 29 Apr 2007 00:25:09 -0600 Yea, Mc Arthur really put a damper on prostitution in Japan, just like the current TIP policy has really hurt the customers of the juicy bars in Korea. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/hi_fires_28_apr.html#comment-59559 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/hi_fires_28_apr.html#comment-59559 Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:19:42 -0600 A couple of points. 1. With the media, we can do no right, unless we are hanging our own people out to dry, and then they whine because we are not doing it fast enough for them to use against us. 2. Once again, our open enemy in our backyard is castigating us for catching bad guys trying to do bad things. Anyone else thinking about Lincoln's shutting down of the press during the civil war may be the right thing to do with those who publish classified information? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/hi_fires_28_apr.html#comment-59558 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/hi_fires_28_apr.html#comment-59558 Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:57:28 -0600 John, Heh... none that I know of, although there was that time on liberty in Sandy Eggo..... some "lost time" that I'm not sure i want to recall..... No, I just can't stand the holier-than-thou attitude. The issue of gang tats reminds me very much of the sort of comments made as to why "coloreds" shouldn't be allowed to serve. Respects, http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/hi_fires_28_apr.html#comment-59557 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/hi_fires_28_apr.html#comment-59557 Sat, 28 Apr 2007 16:23:09 -0600 So, AW1 Tim, how many gang signs reside in *your* tat-field? 8^ ) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/hi_fires_28_apr.html#comment-59554 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/hi_fires_28_apr.html#comment-59554 Sat, 28 Apr 2007 12:24:16 -0600 Comrades, I hope that whoever ordered that search for tats gets their @ss handed to them in a sh*tcan. There's a special place in hell reserved for pointy-eared gits like that, and there should be NO PLACE in the US Military for them. Yet, they seem to gravitate to the military like flies to a cadaver. Maybe their actions are a response to a lack of p*nis size, or maybe they didn't get enough respect in school. I put them in the same class of people who WANTED to be hall monitors, the type who enjoy pulling the legs off of insects and setting animals on fire. But that's just me. It's actions like this, however, that bring Kipling's poem "Tommy" to mind. Respects, http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/hi_fires_28_apr.html#comment-59548 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/hi_fires_28_apr.html#comment-59548 Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:36:31 -0600 Hey, he let you guys play at Inchon. What's your beef, Sandman?;) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/hi_fires_28_apr.html#comment-59547 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/hi_fires_28_apr.html#comment-59547 Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:00:34 -0600 And, of course, because El Supremo ordered it, there was no more prostitution in Japan from that day forward. Pity he apparently forgot about his powers of omnipitance later or he could have ordered the North Koreans not to be aggressive, and the Chinese not to intervene. Marine6 Sends http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/hi_fires_28_apr.html#comment-59544 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/hi_fires_28_apr.html#comment-59544 Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:32:44 -0600