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/tins_1.html Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:25:35 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:16:25 -0600
It *did* produce a new sand trap on the Air Force's golf course, though...
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-79007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-79007 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:11:14 -0600 So, Chief, I hope and trust that when the Whizz-Bang went Bang! nobody was hurt and no important stuff was damaged? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78981 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78981 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:20:51 -0600 No offense John, sir. [checks for wallet]. Yeah, sure, uh-huh. ;^ )]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78969 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78969 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:26:55 -0600
Warrant Officer types are decent enough. Kinda like a hybrid between an officer and a real soldier.

No offense John, sir.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78968 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78968 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:14:20 -0600 You've prolly even been to a couple -- remember one with a two-foot deep depression in the center and a huge poison ivy patch in the northeast corner?

Ooo!  Ooo!  That was me!  I did that one!  In collusion with the CSM!
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78964 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78964 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:44:36 -0600
I spent all my time figuring out ways to keep from flying resupply missions so I could give the nurses "Orientation Flights" to some remote, secluded clearing in the woods fifty miles from nowhere.

But it usually didn't work because the Ossifer types invariably found every remote, secluded clearance fifty miles from nowhere and designated them all as weekend, post-forced-march bivouac sites for the troops.

You've prolly even been to a couple -- remember one with a two-foot deep depression in the center and a huge poison ivy patch in the northeast corner?
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78963 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78963 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:32:03 -0600
My bad.

In my own defense, I'll tell ya true. It's hard to tell the difference between ours and the Brits with all that hoity toity gentleman stuff y'all like to strut around.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78961 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78961 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:23:35 -0600
You've got us confused with the *Brit* army.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78960 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78960 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:06:46 -0600
You're an officer type person? If so, I have a question for you.
Is it true that officer type folk spend their working days sitting around, eating decrusted cucumber sandwiches, drinking tea and quoting poetry at each other?]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78959 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78959 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:12:05 -0600
When I was pushing troops at Ft. Dix, my Drill Sergeants would admonish any trainee who addresses them as "sir" with  "Don't 'sir' *me*, Trainee --  I *work* for a living!"

If they said it within my hearing, I'd counter with "Yeah, it's a tough job, keeping those stripes from disappearing, isn't it, Corporal?"
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78957 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78957 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:09:31 -0600
I knew quite a few gunnies that wouldn't hesitate to bust a Marine's chops, both literally and figuratively, if said Marine confused him for a lowly officer type with a misplaced "sir".

And as to the live food for chow. At least we'll know it's fresh.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78955 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78955 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:26:58 -0600

Bill ~ Nice to know you're still in one piece...more or less.
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78947 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78947 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:26:52 -0600 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78945 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78945 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:51:43 -0600
Is Tod Palin in town?
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78944 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78944 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:37:08 -0600 I'll leave that to the Denizennes, zipper-boy. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78943 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78943 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:21:50 -0600 We only feast on the flesh of the living.

Bite me.

]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78942 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78942 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:16:00 -0600
*Nnnnnnnnot*.
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78941 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78941 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:02:09 -0600 Bailing. Rocket.

I type *fast* when I hear "pffffft -- vrooooooooooooooo"...


I particularly admire the punctuation, Chief...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78938 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78938 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:01:32 -0600
We only feast on the flesh of the living.

We're just that kinda people.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78933 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78933 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:00:16 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78932 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78932 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:38:56 -0600 Musta been a sloooooow rocket, allowing for that message from the receiving end... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78931 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78931 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:30:01 -0600 Good thing you didn't get blowed up. No telling what he'd be saying about you if he thought you weren't around to square away the record. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78929 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78929 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:47:55 -0600
If I'd known you didn't trust me to stay intact, I'd a-set up a webcam inside the bunker.

Sheesh.
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78926 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78926 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:20:01 -0600
And for Air Force, just remember that all ranks translate to dude and that any salute crisper than a causual wave is considered a hostile act, and all is fine.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78924 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78924 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:37:31 -0600 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78923 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78923 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:33:11 -0600
..and it isn't for the benefit of the Marine, it's merely to allow them time to translate for their compatriots in the remainder of the Naval Department.
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78921 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78921 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:28:43 -0600
Wrong.

Marine sea stories all start with "this is a no sh!tter!" and their ... umm... relation to an actual event is measured as an inverse to how strident the claims to veracity become.

]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78920 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/tins_1.html#comment-78920 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:09:11 -0600