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/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:50:54 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... ********************************** Heh. A new fiscal year... and we're working from last year's budget. That was usually annoying from a soldier perspective - as a blood-sucking contractor, it really bites, because all those shiny new contracts written on '08 dollars can't go into effect until the actual budget is passed. Which hampers us, but also hampers the... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:56:29 -0600 Grunts bounce off real good. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html#comment-65160 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html#comment-65160 Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:49:45 -0600 Murray, I was just askin', in a technical kind of way, about what kind of objects, approaching at whatever speed, could be counted upon to make a hole, or not, in an M113. Yah, obviously on many occasions people protected by nothing more than thin shirts have won violent deadly fights,by being smart and maneuvering, etc. And survived, even. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html#comment-65130 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html#comment-65130 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:16:44 -0600 Ask the Aussies who were at Long Tan how they feel about 113's. Last I heard a few of them were ready to marry one. Might be what you do with it rather than what it can do that matters. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html#comment-65128 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html#comment-65128 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:43:41 -0600 An interesting lecture it was, I watched a bit of it expecting little of it but it turned out worthwhile. To hold an audience's attention for that long is an achievement in itself and he's good at inspiration too. What is with this resolution? I don't really get it. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html#comment-65127 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html#comment-65127 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:38:12 -0600 ...pledges to debate any supplemental funding request or any policy decisions regarding the war in Iraq with the solemn respect and the commitment to integrity... *Always* disregard the body of any congressional resolution until you've checked the bottom line. And the bottom line in this instance -- in keeping with the line of the thread -- translates as, "To everyone we mentioned in the preceding paragraphs: F**k you." * * * * * * * * * * * * I was always WTF about aluminum armor. The Royal Navy had that same thought during the Falklands Exocet-Catching Exercise... ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html#comment-65126 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html#comment-65126 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:34:46 -0600 Oh, Murray, I believe that Tom Wolfe (in "The Right Stuff") described the use of the F-word as speaking in "Army Creole". You know what I mean, interpolating it between syllables, etc, http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html#comment-65122 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html#comment-65122 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:49:35 -0600 Umm, Murray, and Bill, and The Armorer; just what is the M113 good for? I mean, aside from avoiding having to walk, and stopping pistol bullets and low-velocity fragments, and all? Surely, when they first built the thing, somebody shot at it with various weapons to see what would penetrate. Just curious, I was always WTF about aluminum armor. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html#comment-65121 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html#comment-65121 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:41:52 -0600 Why the Army has Problems. Some ominous images here. Cheers]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html#comment-65119 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html#comment-65119 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:31:17 -0600 Rush Limbaugh???? damn, what have I gotten myself into..... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html#comment-65110 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html#comment-65110 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:41:31 -0600 F bomb? Down here thats just punctuation. Can't wait to see what Peter Jackson does with the Dam Busters. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html#comment-65108 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html#comment-65108 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:50:07 -0600 DNM - Can't help that, that post of mine I linked to is from 2004, and Questing Cat shut down. The purpose of the link was about the ubiquity of the F-bomb in the vocaulary of Anglospheric soldiers under stress... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html#comment-65091 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html#comment-65091 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:18:31 -0600 Uh, the site you linked to in /to_borrow_from_blackfive" (questingcat.com) is dead and for sale. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html#comment-65089 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html#comment-65089 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:05:43 -0600 now imagine being taxed for all those aborted transactions.... this broadband tax cuts into my real life bread and butter. this thing must be defeated. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html#comment-65086 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html#comment-65086 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:25:50 -0600 Yeah...I actually refreshed the live blog twice before I jumped in just in case I was jumping on somebody's post. that is how Maggie's post escaped scrubbing. At least it was somebody else's fault this time. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html#comment-65075 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html#comment-65075 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:16:43 -0600 No, I dodged your bullet. By a few minutes. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html#comment-65074 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html#comment-65074 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:07:39 -0600 hah...and I came down probably stomping it to bits...again. mucho apologies. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html#comment-65073 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html#comment-65073 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:53:10 -0600 Ah, don't sweat it Maggie. I knew it was going to be a problem when I set it up that way. It's just funny. I refreshed to see if anyone had put anything in, I published, then Ry published over it. So, I go back in, do it all again... and you published over it. The *real* lesson is: Don't publish the thing until I'm done! No way for you to know - don't worry, I'm just whinin'. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html#comment-65070 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html#comment-65070 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:37:41 -0600 My apologies. You know everytime I post, I worry about that. I get all spooled up and I think it actually ends up taking me longer. That's why I don't do it often, but I just really had to put something here today. I am insufferable when I best the favorite Naval Consort. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html#comment-65069 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html#comment-65069 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:18:21 -0600 I *knew* I shouldn't have published when I did. First Ry, then Maggie, stomped on my addition. Fooey! Now you'll never know what it was! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html#comment-65068 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_1_oct.html#comment-65068 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:10:41 -0600