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/2008/06/caption_1_us_ar.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:29:51 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification "U.S. Army Soldiers from Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 1st Battalion, 91st Cavalry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team fire 120-mm mortars during operations south of Forward Operating Base Naray, Afghanistan, March 26, 2008. The Soldiers are firing the mortar in hopes of flushing out anti-coalition militia suspected of attacking an Afghan supply truck. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Derek Niccolson) (www.army.mil) " U.S. Army Soldiers of Alpha Troop, 2nd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division out of Fort Lewis, Wash., fire 120 mm mortars from a Stryker vehicle at Joint Combat Outpost Key... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/caption_1_us_ar.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/caption_1_us_ar.html Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:14:06 -0600 If only that Garand could talk... Sigh. Prolly got to Iraq from Greece, I'm thinking http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/caption_1_us_ar.html#comment-73703 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/caption_1_us_ar.html#comment-73703 Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:29:33 -0600 Ah yea mortars. The pocket artillery of the infantry. Now let me think, what is that they call the guy on the mortar crew who carries that two pronged device for clearing misfires???? I remember ... he's a Mortar Forker. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/caption_1_us_ar.html#comment-73693 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/caption_1_us_ar.html#comment-73693 Sun, 01 Jun 2008 13:31:56 -0600