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/2008/09/word_just_plain.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:27:23 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/09/word_just_plain.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/09/word_just_plain.html Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:03:13 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/09/word_just_plain.html#comment-78168 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/09/word_just_plain.html#comment-78168 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:08:43 -0600 I think I'm going to be sick. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/09/word_just_plain.html#comment-78165 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/09/word_just_plain.html#comment-78165 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:25:14 -0600
This way the Army has control over what is being sold- they have no control over most retail outlets selling "Army" gear.  Sears also does a lot on behalf of our military and sponsor various public assistance projects, including "Heros at Home".  I am hopeful that the profits from these items will go toward these projects.  Read more here: http://www.searsholdings.com/communityrelations/hero/military.htm]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/09/word_just_plain.html#comment-78160 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/09/word_just_plain.html#comment-78160 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:52:51 -0600
Don't forget the Versace scarf that goes with the designer flight suit...beeatch.

Your last line is a keeper, BTW.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/09/word_just_plain.html#comment-78158 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/09/word_just_plain.html#comment-78158 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:11:02 -0600 As long as money goes back to the soldiers, what's the big deal with having yet another retail outlet for your brand - since you're already selling it anyway?

Unit sales of unit-specific items go directly to the unit fund -- I've contributed to a couple of cookouts for the 29th ID and my old Guard unit by purchasing a hat or a T-shirt. In this instance, the money isn't going back to the soldiers -- it's going to Sears. The Army is only getting a percentage of the net, and if a single penny ends up in an MWR account, I'll kiss a goat on the lips on the 50-yard line of the Rose Bowl at half-time.

Sure, the Lefties co-opted uniform items -- they used them both as talismans to give themselves an aura of derring-do and as statements to mock those of us who wore them "on the job." Just because they did it -- and continue to do it -- doesn't make it right. Good men died for those patches -- not the pieces of cloth themselves, but for what they represented. They were something tangible that expressed something intangible. A spirit. A kinship with those who shared what you shared in the fight and in life. And a kinship with those who could no longer share in the fight or in life.

You want to dress in overpriced cammies with a Sears label on your ass?

Go ahead.

You want to wear a designer flight suit with color-coordinated zippers and a cutsie dogtag logo for a pulldown?

Be my guest.

Leave my damn patch alone. You didn't f*cking earn it.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/09/word_just_plain.html#comment-78157 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/09/word_just_plain.html#comment-78157 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:59:26 -0600 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/09/word_just_plain.html#comment-78152 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/09/word_just_plain.html#comment-78152 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:30:39 -0600 Hey, if the Old Navy can sell gear, why not the Army? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/09/word_just_plain.html#comment-78151 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/09/word_just_plain.html#comment-78151 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:28:35 -0600
They just happen to have been bought at CANEX shops instead of Sears or Zellers or such (except the RCAF cap - that was produced privately).

Besides, what bugs me more is seeing actual uniform items that some punk picked up at a surplus store and is wearing ripped and cut up as a fashion statement.  But that's been happening for years, too.

As long as money goes back to the soldiers, what's the big deal with having yet another retail outlet for your brand - since you're already selling it anyway?
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BTW, does anyone else see the contradictory irony in a Marxist revolutionary having become a Western capitalist fashion icon?]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/09/word_just_plain.html#comment-78143 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/09/word_just_plain.html#comment-78143 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:42:01 -0600 I am one of those combat vets. I even have the patch tattooed on my arm.
Assholes in the upper echelons are farking clueless.
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