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/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:57:36 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... Time to add a new caveat, because from email it's not clear to some folks (mind you, if you don't read this it won't matter...) Being an open post, people (collectively, the Denizens) other than I post in the H&I. They sign their work (most of the time) - keep that in mind when you want... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:32:55 -0600 Geez, John, don't ya *get* blogger ego at *all*? Like Matty *needs* the exposure. 8^) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71622 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71622 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 08:01:05 -0600 Bozos didn't even have the butt pad for it... Great. Something *else* to send Cassie's mind off on a tangent...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71619 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71619 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:59:31 -0600 You mean I can't cite BlackFive? Ever? Only if Arrggghhhh yields a nil response? Cheers http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71615 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71615 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 20:43:39 -0600 but you didn't have to go quite so far afield to find a tribute to Smokey Smith, VC.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71614 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71614 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 20:03:20 -0600 PIAT gunner. Cheers]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71613 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71613 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:30:56 -0600 Re Randi: For the record, no relation. She gets a lot of things wrong, including how to spell that last name correctly. (Those of you who know, know.) Instaattilapilot http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71611 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71611 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:52:26 -0600 No doubt there's been a lot of drive-by bayonetings... Or a poseur attempting to best your record... ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71610 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71610 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:10:39 -0600 John, When I saw the PIAT, I thought of expended LAW tubes. People freak out over something totally harmless. Even if you explain in small words why it is harmless, they still freak out. Had a mom come into the recruiting station and totally wigged over the inert training grenade on my desk. She was sure I was trying to kill her child. I explained that it was inert. Didn't matter. Showed her the hole in the bottom. Didn't matter. Mentioned that I wouln't exactly want to blow myself up. Didn't matter. Some people are not going to be assuaged. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71609 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71609 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 11:45:45 -0600 Mike - yes I knew it was at an event, having watched the video. I'm just amused at what passes for "unacceptable speech" at Air America. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71606 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71606 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 10:28:00 -0600 A screech owl in the Persian Gulf? He's a looooong way from home. Looks more like a local bird, though; my guess would be a Scops or a Little Owl. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71605 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71605 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 05:36:16 -0600 http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/2008/02/randi-rhodes-airs-unhinged-anti-romney.html "'KILLING RAMPAGE' Rhodes Skit Says Romney Supporters Will Kill Innocent People" ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71598 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71598 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:12:26 -0600 GMT, 3 ACR relocated to Ft Hood to make room for more BCTs in 4 ID. All part of the Grow the Army plan. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71594 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71594 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:14:19 -0600 Gun Grab update:.. Patricia sends... "This week we had good success at the Capital! Two bills we’ve been working are now on the way to the Governor for her signature. HB 2280 (was HB 2811) The Emergency Powers Act (this would prevent the kind of government occupation that occurred at Greensburg)and SB 46 which allows dealers to sell Class III firearms, and allows individuals to possess them in Kansas, both passed House and Senate. We now wait to see what the Governor will do. She has the power to veto both bills. Should she do so, the forecast is that we easily have enough votes to override a veto on HB 2280 and possibly SB 46. On the Greensburg matter, several 2A organizations are now investigating what happend and the legislators have been given the information as well. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71593 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71593 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:42:15 -0600 I bet it makes a mean club. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71590 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71590 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:50:48 -0600 that title are most likely the Brit's Sticky Bomb and the Soviet-designed Dog Mine,) but pretty far up in the running. One of the reasons I'm fond of the film A Bridge Too Far is that during the scenes where Major Frost's troops are defending their toehold on the northern end of the bridge at Arnhem, they actually fire at least one PIAT at the oncoming German tanks. ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71588 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71588 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:40:30 -0600 Isn't the 3rd ACR out of Colorado Springs? It was when I was in the 1st Cav... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71584 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71584 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:37:26 -0600 please tell me that somewhere in the Army is at least one Paladin that has a silver chess knight painted on the turret. ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71578 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71578 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:56:44 -0600 ran a story about the errant owl, with a few more details. They took it ashore in a cargo plane. I gotta wonder what the bird thought of the cat shot... I dislike using the word "cute," especially for a bird of prey, but screech-owls make it hard to avoid. ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71577 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71577 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:50:32 -0600 Ahh Karma. And double standards.... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71574 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71574 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:26:19 -0600 Awwwwwwwwwwww!!! That owl story just makes me melt... so adorable!! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71571 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_4_apri_1.html#comment-71571 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:51:36 -0600