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/2007/09/might_as_well_m.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:18:21 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Whew! Alla us posting in one day. Must be a national holiday or something... Since we're all here jointly - I thought I'd post a little something about the utility of Jointness.... From Al Nofi's CIC over at Strategy Page: "'Down 200!' No, Wait, I Mean 'Over 200!'" Among the more amusing differences between the Army and the Navy in the years prior to World War II was the way in which observers monitoring the fall of artillery rounds were wont to call in corrections. Navy and Marine procedures called for reporting the correction to be made, while Army procedures... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/might_as_well_m.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/might_as_well_m.html Mon, 03 Sep 2007 07:17:58 -0600 ...an Army observer reports the correction, not the error. Unlike some reps of the MSM, which don't report either one...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/might_as_well_m.html#comment-63913 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/might_as_well_m.html#comment-63913 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 11:41:24 -0600