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 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/last_nights_bot.html Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:13:34 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2010 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification *looong sparktrail* *white flash -- wuhBOOM!* After about an hour of map-snooping and flash-to-bang comparing (we're not allowed to meander until they sound the All Clear, which they forget to do sometimes), we figured it hit a (vacant) vehicle storage lot a couple-hundred meters away. An on-scene meander after brekkies confirmed it. A new axle-breaker slightly off dead-center of nowhere, a lot of singed gravel, and that was about it. Until I realized what was along the line-of-flight not more than a football field or two (give-or-take an end-zone) from the crater. The PX/BX. The rat-bassetts! They've been lurking at... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/last_nights_bot.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/last_nights_bot.html Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:14:09 -0600 No metric system at Castle Argghhh! CAPT H... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/last_nights_bot.html#comment-71321 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/last_nights_bot.html#comment-71321 Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:35:35 -0600 ... if John is "cm" and Bill is "in" ... Cheers http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/last_nights_bot.html#comment-71314 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/last_nights_bot.html#comment-71314 Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:14:30 -0600 She does have a point though. John's the 82, and Bill's the 27. It's a numbers game, you see. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/last_nights_bot.html#comment-71307 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/last_nights_bot.html#comment-71307 Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:02:19 -0600 I get so confused... Cassie -- it's simple. John is the grey-haired, good-lookin', retired artillery guy who makes fun of helicopters. Bill is the grey-haired, *really* good-lookin', retired helicopter guy who makes fun of artillery. See? Now let's go over "back azimuth" and "buttstock"...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/last_nights_bot.html#comment-71303 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/last_nights_bot.html#comment-71303 Sat, 29 Mar 2008 08:01:40 -0600 Reminds me a little of my wife's story about the Air Force guys at Binh Thuy airfield, back around '68 or so, who had built themselves a nice above-ground swimming pool with a little deck around it and everything. And then one night an enthusiastic VC mortarman walked a line of shells down the runway and put the last round dead-center in their pool, which did its watertight integrity no good at all. But then I've always figured the VC would have eaten the Iraqi insurgency for lunch and been asking for seconds by 1500... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/last_nights_bot.html#comment-71270 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/last_nights_bot.html#comment-71270 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:01:58 -0600 Pictures! I want Thong Pictures! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/last_nights_bot.html#comment-71269 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/last_nights_bot.html#comment-71269 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:47:50 -0600 Don't all the ladies dream of Bill? Or wuz that John? I get so confused... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/last_nights_bot.html#comment-71264 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/last_nights_bot.html#comment-71264 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:56:11 -0600 I had a very restless night of sleep last night, but nothing compared to yours. Sheesh. I did dream about you though. honest. I had a dream that you came to visit me and the boys for a few days after you came home from the Sandbox. Nothing exciting, but I *did* dream about you. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/last_nights_bot.html#comment-71219 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/last_nights_bot.html#comment-71219 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:52:56 -0600 Nooo...not the thongs!!! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/last_nights_bot.html#comment-71210 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/last_nights_bot.html#comment-71210 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:15:48 -0600 Glad you guys are OK, Bill! I wish someone would rid us of Sadr soon. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/last_nights_bot.html#comment-71197 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/last_nights_bot.html#comment-71197 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:16:47 -0600