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/more_from_the_m.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:17:32 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Like I said, this has been held for some OPSEC reasons. The two dead soldiers referenced in this bit we talked about here - since one, Colonel Harrison, was deployed from Fort Leavenworth. There has been a successful spring here. Part of it is because we changed direction from the last year. NATO is out mixing it up with the enemy more. Early in the year you would read reports about troops staying in their bases, and calling in artillery or air strikes on one or two insurgents they would see moving around outside the wire. That’s using a very... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/more_from_the_m.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/more_from_the_m.html Fri, 07 Sep 2007 06:07:41 -0600 Been reading the reports from the Man in the 'Stan. Also listened to The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns. And reading the news from my old stomping grounds. I really do miss the place. If it weren't for a promise I made to a certain denizenne, I'd have to volunteer for another tour. It looks like my unit missed the bubble this time around. We were in year 5 of ARFORGEN and got passed by because the Guard got most of the missions this time. So unless they have a really big surge in the next couple years, we go back to the bottom of the list, and come back up in 2012. Of course, cross leveling will get most of my guys. And, they're running out of first sergeants. Last year they pulled a Sgt. Major to deploy in the first shirt position. Maybe choosing to go back to the 'Stan in 2009 will keep me from going to the other sandbox..... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/more_from_the_m.html#comment-64108 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/more_from_the_m.html#comment-64108 Sat, 08 Sep 2007 00:15:42 -0600 I knew Maj Ruckpaul here. Good officer. Not a friend but a nodding acquaintance. Two of the men in our office were on the other side of the passageway when this happened. They played the Last Post for him. Quite a crowd for his memorial. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/more_from_the_m.html#comment-64103 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/more_from_the_m.html#comment-64103 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:26:15 -0600 isn't a safe occupation anywhere in Afghanistan. RIP Maj Raymond Ruckpaul.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/more_from_the_m.html#comment-64070 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/more_from_the_m.html#comment-64070 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:04:12 -0600 AND- Like the Tactical Air Command folks used to say "We fly and fight, or support those who do!" Thanks also belong to the families at home, the caregivers for the injured, Soldiers' Angels, FBL and the Valour IT crew, and the trainers, communicators and logisticians who keep the beans bullets and black oil flowing to put the kinetic hurt on the bad guys. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/more_from_the_m.html#comment-64067 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/more_from_the_m.html#comment-64067 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:14:33 -0600 THANK YOU again to all who are serving to defend our freedom- be it their first tour, or back again for more...and more. Thanks also to John for keeping their contributions to the mission in our minds. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/more_from_the_m.html#comment-64066 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/more_from_the_m.html#comment-64066 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:59:11 -0600