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_9_apr_1.html Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:58:44 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_9_apr_1.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:32:49 -0600 "You've seen one, you've seen them all." HfS - Most certainly not true! Chief - You missed more than one and I am sulking.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71800 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71800 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:02:52 -0600 Ooops. Missed one. DJ -- 14th IA is an *IA* line unit, with troops from all over the country. The Kurds have their own standing army and Massoud Barzani offered units from *that* source. But you've also raised an excellent point -- Iraqi Army units fought as units, not as fragmented sects. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71788 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71788 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:27:30 -0600 "You've seen one, you've seen them all." Heh. *That* deserved a keyboard alert... Jtg -- Fourteen windows, eight seats, cargo / luggage / survival gear stowage area. The one in John's pic came with a 10-man life raft installed. Should make a dandy 10-man sunshade...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71787 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71787 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:29:51 -0600 HFS...it's all about the quality http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71780 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71780 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:21:07 -0600 BCR ~ do they really need to be inspected? I thought it was more like, "You've seen one, you've seen them all." http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71777 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71777 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:49:09 -0600 Um, "performance." http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71776 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71776 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:17:33 -0600 I count seven windows behind the pilots' seats on that airplane. Does that mean that there are fourteen back-seat drivers criticizing the instruction and the perormance of the student? (Chorus: (in Arabic) Yer Doing It Wrong!) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71775 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71775 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:12:40 -0600 "Presenting for Inspection" is the correct term. Sheesh. Chandeliers .... awaaaaayyyy! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71773 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71773 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:27:54 -0600 Maggie ~ Are they "springing" or simply "standing at attention"? Heh. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71771 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71771 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:07:56 -0600 a Navy signal-type (male -- Down, Maggie!)" My Darling Chief! The Sailors are the ones who *spring* to attention. I would have thought you knew all this anatomy stuff........do you require some private tutoring?]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71768 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71768 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:33:04 -0600 Regarding the time honored Cav self-promotion of if you ain't, you ain't, since that is a double negative I can only conclude that if you are, you are. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71767 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71767 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:27:40 -0600 John do you think Bill could give us a update on the MI 17V which I suspect he is also playing with. The Huey IIs he is playing with are well known to us 'mericans. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71762 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71762 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:23:36 -0600 P.p.s. I also prayed that St Barbara look out for Mrs. Specialist, and that my envy of Heartless diminish. The smell is wonderful. I just turned off the exhaust fan, so that traces of it will remain for a while. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71751 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71751 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:25:46 -0600 Oh, Noes! I lurrve Mrs. Specialist Libertarian! (in a chaste and sympathetic way, of course) It's not my fault that Heartless, in his heartless braggart manner, has been known to post pics of her looking very good while armed, in the the spirit of "Looky what I got, noneayouseguys can possibly do near as well! Nyah nyah nyah!" Nonetheless, I'll now light a small candle to St. Barbara, in the form of a small pinch of home-made black powder. I hope the smell of it is as sweet in her nostrils as in mine. I will pray that Heartless not be be such a prideful braggart about the admittedly superior person he has for a spouse. P.s. Does she at least get to be a Sergeant for this? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71748 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71748 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:11:27 -0600 Carbo - Mrs. Heartless Libertarian will be deploying soon, too. Prepare for another Detachment. Mebbe you need to contact Saint Barbara and see if there's any one sitting around in the ANGCOM equivalent of TRADOC who needs a combat patch... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71746 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71746 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:40:40 -0600 Hey...and I was going to ask...did you mean "central -Shia - government"? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71745 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71745 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:35:23 -0600 There are already Kurdish troops in Basrah. They arrived last month. 14th IA Brigade (former 1-4) from Tikrit is still more than half Kurdish... Part of that Division's worth of ISF assets moved to Basrah in 48 hours when things went wrong... There are also Anbaris. 3rd IA Bde is also down there. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71743 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71743 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:26:51 -0600 There are already Kurdish troops in Basrah. They arrived last month. 14th IA Brigade (former 1-4) from Tikrit is still more than half Kurdish... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71741 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71741 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:24:28 -0600 You're just helping out the GAs, Tuttle. Involuntarily, as it were. Hey, we get outsourced too -- told off to take a jaunt to Kuwait, and now some genius wants overwatch on staff meetings for crying out loud. So, I figured if you were too busy helping other humans to get into trouble, we could work all these other bright ideas ANGCOM had into our schedule. Nothing personal--but it does make me smile. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71736 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71736 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:01:05 -0600 I will *** try *** not to take that flea-collar remark personally! lol http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71728 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71728 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:32:18 -0600 I just think you attract strays due to that glow-in-the-dark flea collar you've been wearing over there. It's like a homing beacon. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71724 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71724 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:05:51 -0600 Yup, she's baaa-aack... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71720 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71720 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:11:48 -0600 "...the local cops keep finding and doing controlled-dets of IEDs as fast as the dirtbags can plant them." You mean, as in taking care of their own on their own?! How unCongressional of you! How are we ever supposed to lose this war if the Iraqi's actually start helping themselves? Get thee to the corner of the sandstorm and stand there with your eyes open. 0>;~}]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71719 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_9_apr_1.html#comment-71719 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:05:28 -0600