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/2009/04/send_me_some_st.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:20:42 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/send_me_some_st.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/send_me_some_st.html Sat, 04 Apr 2009 10:03:19 -0600
Of course, when the VC, NVA, Khmer Rouge, and Pathet Lao actually *did* massacre civillians and execute troops they'd captured, there wasn't a peep out of them. About three weeks after the mass graves in Hue City were discovered, the Libs started parroting Hanoi's line that the dead were merely civilians who'd been caught in the Tet fighting and the supremely humane Reds merely gave them a decent burial...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/send_me_some_st.html#comment-86826 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/send_me_some_st.html#comment-86826 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:38:09 -0600
Why?  The old chestnut about "It's an antimateriel round!" again?

]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/send_me_some_st.html#comment-86823 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/send_me_some_st.html#comment-86823 Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:21:01 -0600 You keep low-balling the ignoranti ...

Cheers]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/send_me_some_st.html#comment-86815 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/send_me_some_st.html#comment-86815 Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:25:01 -0600
I'll bet there's a *thousand* times as many people who have bloviated about them than there are people who've read even a portion of them, let alone either one in its entirety.
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/send_me_some_st.html#comment-86804 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/send_me_some_st.html#comment-86804 Sun, 05 Apr 2009 09:57:05 -0600 Unbelievably stupid. He MUST have read something wrong. No way that's really illegal.

John Kerry testified before a Congressional committee that he had fired a .50 caliber machinegun against enemy troops and had thereby committed a War Crime. All kinds of people have told me using a shotgun or antipersonnel loads for the M-79 violated the Geneva Convention.

There are probably fifty times as many people out there who have pontificated about Geneva 3 and Hague 4 than have read either one of them.

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"We were hanging around Ops and this weenie from Division comes storming in.

" 'You have to take those sirens off the Cobras!' he hollers.

"Now, a couple of days prior, we stuck a couple of venturi tubes on the skids of the Cobras, 'cuz we figured it'd be cool to see if we could make them sound like Stukas when they were diving -- and it worked. We had a contact that night, and the Blues said that the Cobras made an ungodly scream when they were rolling in. Half the VC turned and ran before the Cobras even opened up.

"So, here's this Major hollering we have to take the venturis off. We figured he'd say it was because it was a safety hazard or something if they fell off in flight, but what he said was, 'You're scaring them.'

" 'Scaring *who*? The gomers?'

" 'Yes! The sirens are scaring them -- it's against the Geneva Convention!'

" 'Excuse me, sir, but are you saying it's okay to *kill* them, but it's not okay to *scare* them?'

" 'Yes! Take the sirens *off* and that's a Direct Order!'

"So, we took the venturis off. What a war. Can you imagine how embarassing it would be to get *court-martialed* for Scaring The Enemy?"
  Norm never told me what happened to that Major, but right about the time he would've made Star-Level is when all the Mandatory Consideration Of Others classes started...
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/send_me_some_st.html#comment-86784 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/send_me_some_st.html#comment-86784 Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:47:27 -0600 Some apparently swiped, er, donated by Bill T -the Armorer]

*snerk*

And if I keep breathing long enough, I'll track 'em all down.

I know where you *live*, AHEC!!!

]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/send_me_some_st.html#comment-86782 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/send_me_some_st.html#comment-86782 Sat, 04 Apr 2009 14:50:21 -0600
A 17-pound PD through the engine deck would kill either a T-72 or a PT-76, but it didn't much matter *where* you hit the PT with one -- if you hit it, it was dead. 10-pounders would blow a tread off or break roadwheels on a T-72, but if you got one down the commander's hatch -- heh!

Dropping a jar of mogas from a Huey onto the engine deck of a PT-76 from 500 feet works well, too...
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I spent my tour with the 1st Cav in Tay Ninh province in 1969.  The echo of "Blue Max Bravo, we got gooks" still gives me chills after all these years.  They were are guardians in the sky,  Dr. Death's Blue-eyed wonder Boys.
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