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/2008/02/live_from_the_crc_mwr_room.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:02:51 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Today we start a new chapter in the ever-lengthening saga of "Twitchy Bill"... Okay, after a solid week of getting refresher training in the military skills I *won't* be using in the sandbox (convoy security, IED marker recognition, treating sucking chest wounds, tactical interrogation of EPWs, how to contact the Chaplain), becoming re-introduced to the delights of the MRE and becoming a human pincushion (most of the stuff I got for PakTheStan was still good, but I got a second iteration of my third Hepatitis B -- the Jersey Guard gave me the first iteration in May of '04 but... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/live_from_the_crc_mwr_room.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/live_from_the_crc_mwr_room.html Sat, 09 Feb 2008 08:27:45 -0600 Hi, John -- ol' Hubert's parked on Sea Float in the Nam Can River, which was JF Kerry's domicile when he wasn't delivering CIA guys (who had evidently forgotten they had reserved seats on Air America UH-1Bs) into Cambodia and being shot at by drunken South Vietnamese Buddhists celebrating Christmas. Cannoneer No. 4 -- Right you are. Which is prolly why 87+% of the civilians passing through were prior service... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/live_from_the_crc_mwr_room.html#comment-69498 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/live_from_the_crc_mwr_room.html#comment-69498 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:58:19 -0600 The primary purpose for forcing civilians to go to CRC is to cull those with a low tolerance for BS. It is a psychological rite of passage. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/live_from_the_crc_mwr_room.html#comment-69490 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/live_from_the_crc_mwr_room.html#comment-69490 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:30:59 -0600 Glamourous photo. Looks like Bill parked his bird on a boat. Just like Lex does! Thankee kindly, birdman, for your service wherever you are bound, doing whatever you will be doing. Sounds like there is some stuff that needs to be done, and done well, and perhaps quietly, so we know we may have to wait for the TINS stories. Be careful out there. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/live_from_the_crc_mwr_room.html#comment-69484 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/live_from_the_crc_mwr_room.html#comment-69484 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:26:35 -0600