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/2008/10/a_post_for_snar.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:26:30 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/a_post_for_snar.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/a_post_for_snar.html Sun, 19 Oct 2008 10:10:31 -0600
He also drew one of the sharpest points of view on the differences between the Air Force and the Army...  ("Uncle Willie!")

;)

]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/a_post_for_snar.html#comment-79406 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/a_post_for_snar.html#comment-79406 Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:23:22 -0600 Thanks,
Tommy
Texas]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/a_post_for_snar.html#comment-79403 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/a_post_for_snar.html#comment-79403 Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:22:31 -0600 Interesting they're using an artillery miniature from the Warhammer 40K roleplaying game in that first picture. Those are fun units in the associated video games as well. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/a_post_for_snar.html#comment-79402 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/a_post_for_snar.html#comment-79402 Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:45:44 -0600 Indirect approach? Hell yeah, I've read Liddell-Hart! As a person of some autitude, I don't think much of that "wait 'till you see the whites of their eyes" nonsense. Sorry, enemy sojers, looking at yer eyeballs creeps me out; I prefer to kill you at further distances with bigger guns. More efficient militarily, and less stress in my head from looking at the guys I've killed. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/a_post_for_snar.html#comment-79401 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/a_post_for_snar.html#comment-79401 Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:31:47 -0600
Amen.
Nothing beats the infantry for when there's a need to steal the dirt out from under the enemy.

Cannon cockers are good too. Well, as long as they remember to put their product where they're told, when their told and in the amounts they're told to deliver.

That's something the arty and the airdales have in common. Battlefield FedEx for nasty packages with a sign on delivery receipt for the addressee.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/a_post_for_snar.html#comment-79400 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/a_post_for_snar.html#comment-79400 Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:26:42 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/a_post_for_snar.html#comment-79399 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/a_post_for_snar.html#comment-79399 Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:34:01 -0600
Infantry lends a dash of vulgarity to what would otherwise be a very stuffy affair.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/a_post_for_snar.html#comment-79398 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/a_post_for_snar.html#comment-79398 Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:13:39 -0600
Cheers]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/a_post_for_snar.html#comment-79397 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/a_post_for_snar.html#comment-79397 Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:59:40 -0600
By inclination and experience, I'm more of a "close with and destroy the enemy" kind of guy.

But I have to admit that calling in that first DT (determined target) at the end of the day, did wonders in improving my map reading.  

Somewhere, in the back of my infantry mind, I always knew that if friendly indirect fire got me, it would be thanks to our own mortar platoon. ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/a_post_for_snar.html#comment-79396 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/a_post_for_snar.html#comment-79396 Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:11:58 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/a_post_for_snar.html#comment-79395 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/a_post_for_snar.html#comment-79395 Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:45:59 -0600 On station, ready for call for fire.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/a_post_for_snar.html#comment-79394 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/a_post_for_snar.html#comment-79394 Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:42:32 -0600 why I don't trust Artillerymen.
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