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/time_for_a_what.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:51:50 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification It's Patriot Day - let's see who knows their firearms parts... This is reader-submitted by a young deployed Marine who hangs at the Castle when the bandwidth allows. The focus isn't the best, but doesn't really detract that much. Give the guy a break - he's deployed!... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:57:36 -0600 I had to think about the cranky part.....but I guess you're ok. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59286 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59286 Sat, 21 Apr 2007 10:13:22 -0600 LOLOLOLOLOL.... nice, Blackhawk... verrrr nice. oh, and Bill darlin'.... I'm sure we could find plenty for you. durn that KtLW..! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59276 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59276 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:57:51 -0600 Hmmm...how to address Maggie... What have I lurned in the year or so I've lurked here: Maggie is a Princess. Maggie has sumtin to do with Boston. Maggie is crabby. And I believe she has sumtin to do with the moat. Hawks fly over moats....but is that moat AAA capable? So... Quick trip to Wal Mart (sorry, only thing open on short notice). Gather flowers, chocolates, card with sweet nuthins...and mace. Durn background checks... Don body armor. Mount trusty steed. Approach cautiously. (Clear throat)...”Let everyone in the world halt, unless the entire world acknowledges that nowhere on earth is there a damsel more beautiful than the Empress of La Moata, she who has no equal, Princesa Malhumorada, Maggie”. Howl at the moon... Drop drawers... Pop flowers and chocos like chaff... Escape and evade, escape and evade, escape and evade...man this armor chafes. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59273 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59273 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:56:23 -0600 Just don't *get* it as much. God!!! I hope I never *get* that old!]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59270 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59270 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:06:24 -0600 I knew you'd have it... Yeah, still *got* it after all these years. Just don't *get* it as much. In *any* interpretation...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59267 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59267 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:47:02 -0600 Yep! That's the picture, Bill! I knew you'd have it... hehe http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59257 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59257 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:42:45 -0600 Snerk. Watch your back, 'Hawk. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59251 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59251 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:05:32 -0600 not involve myself with this undignified discussion regarding age. I will not say what I was doing the year Sandman was born. OldLoader - The spell check thing was aimed at Ry. But it's good to fear me anyway. I am a fan of Machiavelli. Blackhawk - You suck the fun out of everything. You could have let us run with it for a bit. ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59248 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59248 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:42:55 -0600 i certainly hope it isn't a carrier group from the People's Kollective of Manchu. that would be the last thing we need: blue water naval action from those inscrutable bastages! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59246 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59246 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:05:26 -0600 Heh, I was a SSgt (E-5) with a year in grade when Sandman was born, of course that is nothing compared to BillT. (LOL) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59244 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59244 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 06:54:14 -0600 Sandman, in *this* crowd, yer young. I'd been wearing a uniform for 4 years when you were born, Dusty about the same. Since Bill is well-known to have given God the recipe for mud, if we accept Bishop Ussher's dating of the world, Bill had been in uniform circa 6 millennia (give or a take a century or two for breaks between enlistments) when you were born. Bill is *auld*. Oddly enough, of the three, he was the first to join and last to retire, too. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59243 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59243 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 06:43:23 -0600 "Oooooh, ooooooh, Mistuh Kottuh, Mistuh Kottuh, I knows dis one!!!" (*end really bad John Travolta impersonation*) But I'm ineligible, as I'm the "young" (*28*) Marine referred to. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59241 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59241 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:03:06 -0600 Third Squad, First Platoon, Delta Company, Third Battalion of the Sugar Buttons Brigade. Not particularly work safe, especially if you work with -- or for -- GFWs.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59239 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59239 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:56:34 -0600 I'll take a shot(sic), Feed bolt for lets say...30mm anti-aircraft...(crystal ball) Russkie type 1950" Just too much machining to be anything but cold-war red. Not bad for a friggin corpsman? but then again.... Best richard http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59237 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59237 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:40:31 -0600 damn. and here I thought it meant this (insert picture of topless gorgeous gun-toting wimmins that i can't find right now, but i'm sure Bill and John are VERY familiar with). http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59236 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59236 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:10:12 -0600 AF Sis: 'field stripped' usually refers to disassembling a weapon in the field. Just thought I'd clear that up. Is this off of a recoilless rifle? Just a swag... Or it could be a random war-trophy from Akmed's Souvenirs. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59234 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59234 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:11:04 -0600 All I can tell is that it's definitely a bolt-lookin' thing and thus the rest is presumably a carrier. Not something I've ever field-stripped, but that's not saying anything. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59231 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59231 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:58:06 -0600 PKM carrier group http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59224 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59224 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:02:49 -0600 nomenclature - in a hurry should have used spell-check... sorry Maggie :( http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59207 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59207 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:55:01 -0600 if it's from a M2, then i would need to turn out the lights and drop it on my foot to get a positive ID. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59206 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59206 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:54:47 -0600 OK, I don't know the nimenclature on this, but I think it's the part of the M-2 just forward of the butterfly trigger... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59205 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59205 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:49:54 -0600 Nope.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59204 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59204 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:20:53 -0600 It looks maddeningly familiar - an operating rod/bolt assembly with kind of a warsaw pac flavor - lot's of milling. That's not from an RPD, is it? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59197 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59197 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:28:26 -0600 Heh. 10,000 stand-ups out of work and youse guys are auditioning! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59193 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59193 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:16:49 -0600 tough to tell w/o a pink quilt behind it for scale, but i would say it appears to be a board from a tree that was at least 26 years old when it was cut down. tight grain pattern in the bolus at upper right quadrant indicates a couple of relatively dry seasons. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59192 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59192 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:14:55 -0600 As the old Wendy's commercial used to say about other restaurants' chicken nuggets... "parts is parts, right?" Using that logic, I'd say it's a whoozywhatzis scopamatic. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59182 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59182 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:00:01 -0600 Um, I'm guessing wrong post, Mike - but, Happy Anniversary(*)! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59179 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59179 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:57:13 -0600 Today is my 27th wedding anniversary (okay - with an asterisk). We've become accustomed to having our anniversary week surrounded by the horrific acts of cowards - OKC bombing, Columbine, and now this. One can't help but wonder what's going on in the "heavenlies". "Happy" Anniversary. ML http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59173 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59173 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:29:03 -0600 The carrying handle-cum-soap dispenser for BCR's Death Ray. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59171 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/time_for_a_what.html#comment-59171 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:17:32 -0600