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        <description>We&apos;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</description>
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            <description><![CDATA[...I'm moving -- again.Stately Tuttle Hootch is a tin roof barracks-type deal located a twenty-five minute walk from the flight line, a five-minute walk from the Hall of Chow, a five-minute walk from the PX/BX and a ten-minute walk from the laundry (no, I don't step into the shower fully-clothed and wash the quotidian raiment. Not since February, any way). The new digs are just like my Conex container in Boz, except it has a sink with (sometimes) running water. The engineers are &quot;working on it.&quot; *No* roommates blistering the paint off the walls! Electric light until 0400! Space for...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:51:06 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Comment from BillT on 2008-11-21</title>
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                <![CDATA[Hey, El Capitan! I'll tell you about the Cessnas after a bit -- as soon as they get 'em flyable again.<br />
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Li'l problem with the manufacturer (Thielert) sending parts that don't fit...<br />]]>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:41:18 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Comment from BillT on 2008-11-21</title>
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                <![CDATA[<em>Those CONEXs can be little mansions if you get the right one. </em><br />
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I no longer have a roommate who lives on kimchi, peppers and Tabasco, ergo, I got the right one.<br />
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<em>ConEx container = MacGyver's closet</em><br />
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Hey! That's my 8'x12'x8' slice of heaven you're talking about!<br />
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*still waiting for the pick-'em-up that was supposed to be here three hours ago*<br />
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            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:35:51 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Comment from HomefrontSix on 2008-11-21</title>
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                <![CDATA[ConEx container = MacGyver's closet<br />]]>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:26:55 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Comment from Boquisucio on 2008-11-21</title>
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                <![CDATA[As your Uguric neighbors from the North would say: Unkabill has a new <em>Saray</em>!<br />]]>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:10:21 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Comment from Argent on 2008-11-21</title>
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                <![CDATA[Oh I see.&nbsp; I know them as shipping containers.<br />]]>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:45:51 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Comment from Cannoneer No. 4 on 2008-11-21</title>
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                <![CDATA[CONEXes are Anxiety Closets into which a platoon dumps all the junk, unauthorized stuff, items they were supposed to have turned in, gunfire simulators, subcaliber gunnery training devices, Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System gear, spaghetti cords, tow bars, hoarded repair parts, trading material, and tools foraged out of another company's sponson boxes.&nbsp; Locked with a big old silver padlock, the key for which the Platoon Sergeant wears on his dog tag chain, except at oh-dark-thirty when you really need it.&nbsp; Then somebody who isn't there has it.]]>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:13:26 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2008-11-21</title>
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                <![CDATA[Argent - CONEX is short for CONtainer EXchange.&nbsp; Essentially, those metal boxes that transship from truck to train to ship, etc.&nbsp; There are large ones and small ones.&nbsp; The term comes from the early days, when you would exchange the containers - i.e., drop one off, and pick on up.<br />
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Al Qaeda and smugglers use them to move people around clandestinely, even, though the AQ types are rather more comfortable than the ones the coyotes use.]]>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:19:47 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Comment from El Capitan on 2008-11-21</title>
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                <![CDATA[I can hear the 'Jefferson's' theme music playing right now. <br />
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Those CONEXs can be little mansions if you get the right one.&nbsp; You can find companies online that will ship some 'pimped out' ones to you at little cost.&nbsp; About 20K, which is worth it for the company&nbsp;if you're out there for a while.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />
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Just beware of that burn pit.&nbsp; Nothing more toxic than that.&nbsp; We slept next to the hospital incinerator&nbsp;in the IZ, which was really bad because not only was it toxic, it&nbsp;was probably people.&nbsp; (Soilent Green?!)<br />
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How are those Cesna's holding up? &nbsp;Did you guys ever get the Diesel engine upgrades?]]>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:43:25 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Comment from RetRsvMike on 2008-11-21</title>
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                <![CDATA[living large and loving it!<br />]]>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:48:54 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Comment from Argent on 2008-11-21</title>
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                <![CDATA[Can't sit still can you?&nbsp; You're the kind of guy who wins the mansion but it ends up being at a nuclear waste dump, right?<br />
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What is Conex container?<br />
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            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:47:10 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Comment from AFSister on 2008-11-21</title>
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                <![CDATA[Man.<br />
Talk about taking the good with the bad, eh?]]>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:19:02 -0600</pubDate>
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