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/somehow_it_fits.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:15:41 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Since the last of us helicontractor pilots have arrived back in the Land of Continuous Electricity, OPSEC's no longer a factor and I won't have to worry about a satchel charge going off outside my door if I tell you where we were when we weren't where we were. Legend has it that Alexander the Great was wounded there and eventually died from the infection. That's the rationale for not cleaning the streets -- they keep it dusty in self-defense. Multan, Pakistan, the City of Dust. Or, in this case, the Airfield of Dust. It's one of the oldest continuously-inhabited... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/somehow_it_fits.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/somehow_it_fits.html Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:17:13 -0600 There might have been more but I couldn't make it out over the screaming. That wasn't screaming -- that was whining. ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/somehow_it_fits.html#comment-64271 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/somehow_it_fits.html#comment-64271 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:40:29 -0600 What about all the longstanding lessons they never take down off the shelf and bother to learn? They held the shindig in the Community Club. *Not* dusty-musty. Except for the coffee...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/somehow_it_fits.html#comment-64270 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/somehow_it_fits.html#comment-64270 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:35:06 -0600 I wasn't teaching them to avoid the spiders, I was teaching them to avoid the *trees*. Suuuuure. That's why you told them to keep the rotor(s) "perpendicular to the ground and facing the tree so if the spiders try and jump you, they get creamed! Ahahahahaha" There might have been more but I couldn't make it out over the screaming.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/somehow_it_fits.html#comment-64255 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/somehow_it_fits.html#comment-64255 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:43:48 -0600 Oh, and the local GAs weren't too happy with you teaching your students the "Tuttle's Maneuver for avoiding sudden Giant Man-eating Spiders in Trees". I wasn't teaching them to avoid the spiders, I was teaching them to avoid the *trees*. Well, okay -- the *tree*. There's only one in the entire Indus Valley. But it's chock-full of Giant Man-Eating Spiders. Well, okay -- they're only about the size of a squirrel. And they eat mangoes. But they could get bigger if they wanted to...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/somehow_it_fits.html#comment-64251 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/somehow_it_fits.html#comment-64251 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:27:24 -0600 I'd take it as a personal favor if you would decline any job offers in locations where the paper has "detonation forecasts" right next to the weather report. You think *you* feel old? It feels like I just added a few millenia myself between your shenanigans and the FNGs. Oh, and the local GAs weren't too happy with you teaching your students the "Tuttle's Maneuver for avoiding sudden Giant Man-eating Spiders in Trees". Quite profane on the subject, they were. Especially when I told them we had never encountered Giant Man-eating Spiders in 'Nam. Or even in Joisey. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/somehow_it_fits.html#comment-64246 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/somehow_it_fits.html#comment-64246 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:15:08 -0600 Carlisle? Dust-free? What about all the longstanding lessons they never take down off the shelf and bother to learn? /gratuitous snark http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/somehow_it_fits.html#comment-64232 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/somehow_it_fits.html#comment-64232 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:14:26 -0600 Welcome home. You need some nice healthy LA air to purge the layers of earth from your lungs. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/somehow_it_fits.html#comment-64225 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/somehow_it_fits.html#comment-64225 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:43:12 -0600 Welcome back, Chief! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/somehow_it_fits.html#comment-64223 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/somehow_it_fits.html#comment-64223 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 06:47:05 -0600 Good luck in PA! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/somehow_it_fits.html#comment-64222 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/somehow_it_fits.html#comment-64222 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 06:38:39 -0600 Dang, Chief, you shoulda had a mystical Masonic pendant depending from your neck. You Would Be King. (One of my favorite movies, but am glad your whole body came back, not just the head) P.s. Yeah, Alex got hit and infected, but I don't think Roxane did him any good, either. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/somehow_it_fits.html#comment-64221 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/somehow_it_fits.html#comment-64221 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:54:06 -0600