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/2007/08/hi_fires_8_aug_1.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:55:44 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... ********************************* Dr. Rusty Shackelford of My Pet Jawa sent me this link asking for some help in identifying some rockets - any of you guys got ideas? If they're Chinese, as has been suggested, the Chinese have changed their marking system - especially colors. So far, I'm drawing a blank. Some pics of the rockets at... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_8_aug_1.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_8_aug_1.html Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:54:14 -0600 Ick!!! Where's the disinfectant?!! *runs for the shower* Stay *out* of the hot tub! The j-pipe's still clogged with catnip since the last time!!!]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_8_aug_1.html#comment-63067 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_8_aug_1.html#comment-63067 Fri, 10 Aug 2007 05:00:09 -0600 Re: Memorandum Ick!!! Where's the disinfectant?!! *runs for the shower* http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_8_aug_1.html#comment-63061 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_8_aug_1.html#comment-63061 Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:48:51 -0600 LOL @ BCR ... I had the same thought! Color choices always leave me in the throes of analysis paralysis! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_8_aug_1.html#comment-63059 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_8_aug_1.html#comment-63059 Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:18:32 -0600 Snerk! Nope, she's still agonizing over colors... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_8_aug_1.html#comment-63055 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_8_aug_1.html#comment-63055 Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:51:34 -0600 Breaking News! SWWBO Commits! -the Armorer Really? She picked colors for the New Castle??? oh. Just a candidate endorsement. Never mind ....]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_8_aug_1.html#comment-63054 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_8_aug_1.html#comment-63054 Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:49:06 -0600 Yeah, and the 2007 dates. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_8_aug_1.html#comment-63052 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_8_aug_1.html#comment-63052 Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:17:20 -0600 Dadgum short term memory loss. Those rockets look a lot like the chem ones Saddam used against the Iranians around Abadan back when Iran still had flyable aircraft. May have even had the same paint job, with the exception of the English lettering... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_8_aug_1.html#comment-63051 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_8_aug_1.html#comment-63051 Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:43:21 -0600 Signs of frost? Cerberus' three-bowl water dish seemed to have a thin layer of ice across the top, just for a minute there. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_8_aug_1.html#comment-63050 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_8_aug_1.html#comment-63050 Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:25:11 -0600 Quick! Somebody check Hell for signs of frost. Nope. I've even looked in the shady spot. Singular. ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_8_aug_1.html#comment-63049 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_8_aug_1.html#comment-63049 Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:13:45 -0600 Hey .... CAPT Cox never had to spend time in a crowded FA Bn TOC out in the field, where many of the staff officers and NCOs insisted on stinking up the place with their assortment of foul-smelling pipe tobacco/C rats-induced "wind". LOL http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_8_aug_1.html#comment-63041 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_8_aug_1.html#comment-63041 Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:53:39 -0600 Yet another casualty of budgetary redistribution -- CENTCOM's AirWick Fund. Just out of curiosity, would anybody know if there's an Ensign Willie Keith in Building 540? I presume Cap'n Cox isn't slated for command of a pigboat... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_8_aug_1.html#comment-63039 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_8_aug_1.html#comment-63039 Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:20:44 -0600 I was literally crying...I was laughing so hard at the Capt. Cox article.... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_8_aug_1.html#comment-63038 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_8_aug_1.html#comment-63038 Thu, 09 Aug 2007 07:49:33 -0600