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/2009/03/some_more_good.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:21:48 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:43:26 -0600 You mean you can't just land in a restaurant parking lot and walk inside?

Well sure, if they've got a decent-sized parking lot it's pretty easy, but what about fuel?  Good luck finding anything that will substitute for avgas outside of a racetrack.  If you've got a turbine you could probably get away with road diesel...hell, a turbine should burn pretty much any liquid hydrocarbon in a pinch, but I wouldn't wanna try it.
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85148 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85148 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:32:13 -0600 Serious deficiency of FBOs, though.

You mean you can't just land in a restaurant parking lot and walk inside?

*don't try that trick at home, kids -- especially if you haven't taped over your buzz-number*
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85145 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85145 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:11:44 -0600 Mountains suck. So do deserts. And jungles. And rolling hills with their damn verdant plains. Same for forests. All just different ways to get worn out, foot sore, beat up, dragged out, exhausted, tired, thirsty, and either too wet, too dry, too hot or too cold.

I saw t(r)ucks once. We were marching past a motor pool, on an Army base.

And what did we learn from this kids?  Don't be a light infantryman.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85144 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85144 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:58:01 -0600 Mountains suck. So do deserts. And jungles. And rolling hills with their damn verdant plains. Same for forests.

They're really pretty when you're flying over them in your air-conditioned cockpit at 400 KIAS.  Especially those rolling hills with their verdant plains.  Serious deficiency of FBOs, though.
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85142 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85142 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:41:07 -0600
Oh noos. Must be a conspiracy. What starts with r and ends with n that conspirators would be interested in conspiring about?

Maybe they're hoarding while preparing to go hording?]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85139 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85139 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:06:37 -0600 Someone's hoarding rrrs.

'Tis not DLSly. She only hoarrrrrdes nnns.

]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85138 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85138 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:55:12 -0600 Of course, tucks above is supposed to be trucks. Someone's hoarding rrrs. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85137 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85137 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:28:40 -0600
I saw tucks once. We were marching past a motor pool, on an Army base.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85135 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85135 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:17:51 -0600 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85132 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85132 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:00:14 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85126 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85126 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:43:39 -0600 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85116 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85116 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:16:13 -0600 pic 2: that's no weapon drill, that's just a "walk-through"
pic 3: that's no Stryker, that's just a SPC about to be griping about having to hoof it.
pic 4: "look out over mountains"???  what the hell else are they gonna see in any given direction??
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85114 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85114 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:57:18 -0600 You're easily confused, you know that?

Yeah, I just don't "get" some of these things, apparently.

*scribbles notes* Disciplined...Professional...Unit...

And for Zoomie-larva, you have lots of ground warfare opinions, too.

I have lots of opinions on EVERYTHING.
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85105 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85105 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:39:49 -0600
I know.  General officers told me so.

You're easily confused, you know that?  And for Zoomie-larva, you have lots of  ground warfare opinions, too.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85104 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85104 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:32:05 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85103 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85103 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:15:38 -0600
So, color me unimpressed on *that* issue.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85102 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85102 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:55:43 -0600
That would have gotten you relieved in my Army.  Things have changed.  I won't say for good or worse, just, things have changed.

Bill - I remember you bitching about how stretchy the bow strings were when you first got issued bows, too...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85101 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85101 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:50:33 -0600
And the squad of gang bangers, nobody has a pot on their head, including the two guys with painters hats in front. They train without helmets? Or they don't have helmets? Or maybe they're just going in to fix up the place.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85100 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85100 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:39:21 -0600 But Bill, your close relationship to God and his recipe for mud are well known around these parts. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85099 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85099 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:02:28 -0600
John (the Armorer) -- there's a *reason* we called the original M-16 "Jammin' Jimmy"...

Sis -- I will point out that, while John was still trying to figure out which way the colors on the National Defense Ribbon were s'posed to run, three helicopters I was qualified in had already been removed from the inventory after being declared obsolete...
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85098 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85098 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:53:08 -0600 ; ^ )]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85097 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85097 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:47:13 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85096 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85096 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:35:25 -0600
Actually, I was referring to some other current and former military friends of mine who told me about their own "bang bang" stories under Clinton.  One is in Iraq now, after leaving the Marines and re-joining the Army, and the others are former Marines.
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85092 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85092 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:47:19 -0600
And I don't have that objection.

Nor do about 80% of the users, last I saw the numbers.

]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85091 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85091 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:43:26 -0600
Especially not if you have to trust an AR to actually get the thing out of the barrel.
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85089 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85089 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:21:02 -0600 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85088 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85088 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:07:53 -0600
That would have been the Carter and very early Reagan years, when the budget upticks started by Carter and accelerated by Reagan finally started bearing fruit.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85087 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85087 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:52:50 -0600 ooopppppssssss......... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85086 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85086 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:49:32 -0600 durn that Castle Echo!

Too bad we can't win real wars with "BANG BANG YOU'RE DEAD!" Clinton-era ammo.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85085 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85085 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:49:29 -0600 Those are stealth weapons. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85082 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85082 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:46:16 -0600
Those are stealth weapons.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85081 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85081 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:45:01 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85074 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85074 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:25:35 -0600 Mancini has such an incredible eye for photography. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85073 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/some_more_good.html#comment-85073 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:08:25 -0600