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/2008/05/the_anzus_corri.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:54:51 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification ANZUS Corridor Dedication Ceremony Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England will host the ambassadors of Australia and New Zealand at a ceremony dedicating the new Pentagon corridor themed to honor the security treaty among Australia, New Zealand and the United States known as ANZUS, Tuesday, May 6 at 11 a.m. EDT, on the second floor of A-ring, between corridors eight and nine. The new ANZUS Corridor also honors the 100-year history among Australia, New Zealand and the United States. The corridor exhibits several hundred artifacts that commemorate significant historical events beginning with the ANZUS Treaty to the Global War... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/the_anzus_corri.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/the_anzus_corri.html Tue, 06 May 2008 06:49:03 -0600 Hostages pray to god for salvation, god sends the SAS. John the Canadian Red Ensign was in fact their national flag until their French element got all bitter. No Australian has ever considered the Australian Red Ensign as their national flag. When the RN ceased using red white and blue divisions they kept the white (Nelson, the RN wont do anything unless Nelson did it, said it or tripped over it), red went to the merchants and blue to government departments including the colonial office. The first national identifiers were in fact the blue ensign with an NZ painted on it and the Aussies did something similar. Don't make me break out my father the 37 year Navy sig and WO Yeoman of sigs on this one. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/the_anzus_corri.html#comment-72836 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/the_anzus_corri.html#comment-72836 Thu, 08 May 2008 15:29:33 -0600 Argent - in the auld days, the blue ensign was the military ensign, and the red ensign was, as Murray declaims, flown by the merchant fleet. Technically, it was also the flag flown by civilians. The Ensigns: 1. White Ensign - flown by naval vessels and shore institutions, the Royal Yacht Squadron when escorting the Queen, and there are a few places/people authorized to fly the White because of a long-standing Naval connection. 2. Blue Ensign - flown by the State. 3. Red Ensign - flown by civilians, including the Merchant Marine. As I understand it, Canada's soldiers in the first world war fought under the Canadian Red Ensign, used before the adoption of the Maple Leaf flag. I chose to fly the Red as I'm a civilian under those rules. I could, on Trafalagar Day, fly the White Ensign, as Brit rules provide that anyone may fly the White on that day. When I fly the flag to honor Canadian WWI dead, I fly the Red. Because Murray has threatened my life and well being, I don't ever fly the Red Kiwi (at least not and post about it...). Should I ever host any of the local Brit, Kiwi, or Canadian officers attending the school or here as liaisons, I will fly the appropriate Blues, and the Maple Leaf for the Canadian. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/the_anzus_corri.html#comment-72823 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/the_anzus_corri.html#comment-72823 Thu, 08 May 2008 09:29:21 -0600 Well John you have my erm Our Royal Permission to fly the blue one one day. You know you're a serious history nut when ppl from the country are learning the flag's history from you. Ahh Murray when you pray hard enough to be with Allah how can He deny but send His little Angel's messages on their way? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/the_anzus_corri.html#comment-72822 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/the_anzus_corri.html#comment-72822 Thu, 08 May 2008 08:53:04 -0600 We don't have an SBS and you DON'T want to meet our SAS. A lot of Taleban have, go ask them... oh wait, you can't. And I know where you live John... its North America somewhere, I'll find you. Can't be that many places methodically claiming to be an Australian merchant ship. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/the_anzus_corri.html#comment-72814 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/the_anzus_corri.html#comment-72814 Wed, 07 May 2008 20:11:18 -0600 Yes. I do. And don't tell Murray - but I have the Red Ensign for Kiwi-land, too. I just know better than to tell him when it's flying, lest the Kiwi SBS/SAS show up. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/the_anzus_corri.html#comment-72812 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/the_anzus_corri.html#comment-72812 Wed, 07 May 2008 16:51:06 -0600 I gotta ask this one. Do you actually have the blue one? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/the_anzus_corri.html#comment-72811 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/the_anzus_corri.html#comment-72811 Wed, 07 May 2008 16:04:18 -0600 girls wear the blue one making it the hotest flag outside Gaza and the West Bank. ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/the_anzus_corri.html#comment-72785 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/the_anzus_corri.html#comment-72785 Wed, 07 May 2008 00:24:05 -0600