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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[And Mr. Huffman got it right, and early on.&nbsp; A mobile laundry.&nbsp; You guys are getting better and better at this.Here's the description of this behemoth, courtesy &quot;America's Munitions 1917-1918,&quot; &nbsp;the official gov't report on munitions production (munitions in this context means war materiel, not just things that go bang).&nbsp; Note the casual unremarkable racism in an official document of Wilsonian America.Laundering was not a new activity for the War Department, since when the war was declared the Government already owned 14 small steam laundries.[Armorer's note: the first one of&nbsp;these was at Fort Leavenworth, located in the building I currently...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:51:59 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Comment from Colin on 2009-05-01</title>
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                <![CDATA[I remember dealing with the laundry contracts for the unit I was attached to for the Reforger exercises. We would drop off our laundry in individual wash bags designed to be thrown into the washing machine. That wasn&rsquo;t good enough for the German&rsquo;s. They numbered the bag, took out the contents, numbered each piece and then separated them into type of clothing, each type being washed differently. Then after drying, they would have a huge sorting table, where the women sorted through the laundry to ensure that each piece went back into the right bag. I not sure how, but it worked with little problem and it seemed to employ a lot of people. I would be invited into the manager office for a breakfast of beer and pig knuckle/sausages, getting back to the unit somewhat tipsy. Those were great days.]]>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 10:19:18 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Comment from BillT on 2009-05-01</title>
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                <![CDATA[I was going to comment on the cluelessness of callow yoots, but anything I could say at this point would be superfluous.<br />]]>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 08:29:26 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-05-01</title>
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                <![CDATA[You're, um, 'joshing me,' right?<br />
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            <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 06:51:51 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Comment from Josh on 2009-05-01</title>
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                <![CDATA[Oh wait...is the point here that they weren't ACTUALLY Chinese?<br />]]>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 00:01:22 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Comment from Josh on 2009-04-30</title>
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                <![CDATA[I'm familiar with the &quot;Fighting Irish&quot;&nbsp;stereotype, but is this a case of them being labeled &quot;Fighting&quot; because they're stereotyped as violent, or because they're in the Army?&nbsp; I assumed it was the latter...I've never heard of anybody referred to as &quot;Fighting Chinamen&quot; before, I thought they were stereotyped as being quiet and meek.<br />]]>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:59:21 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-04-30</title>
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                <![CDATA[Josh - &quot;Fighting Chinamen&quot;&nbsp; Plays to racial stereotypes.]]>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:46:43 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Comment from Josh on 2009-04-30</title>
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                <![CDATA[That's actually pretty interesting.&nbsp; I never realized that the US Army went so far to ensure hygiene all the way back in WWI as to put steam-powered laundry facilities on wheels.&nbsp; I always figured front-line laundry facilities back then were more along the lines of a wash basin and a bar of soap.<br />
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Although I don't see anything racist about that document.<br />]]>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:09:22 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Comment from AW1 Tim on 2009-04-30</title>
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                <![CDATA[John,<br />
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&nbsp;&nbsp; Thanks for this great Whatziz. I always enjoy the study of the &quot;backstory&quot; to events, and especially of the rise of professional staff and logistics since the Civil War.<br />
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&nbsp;&nbsp; Not that i am not a front-line adventure type, because I am. However, these are great problems to examine and see how the solutions were developed, implemented, and then put to use. So many folks forget about all the little details that go into fielding an army. <br />
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&nbsp;&nbsp; respects,<br />]]>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:22:24 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Comment from Kirk on 2009-04-30</title>
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                <![CDATA[True.&nbsp; However, it is a good story regarding this miserable building.&nbsp; I suppose it could be worse...we could be in GP&nbsp;Mediums. &nbsp;I better not say that too loud, otherwise CAC might find it appealing.]]>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:23:22 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-04-30</title>
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                Oh, I think that the age, mode of construction, continual re-purposing, addition of central heat and air (which doesn&apos;t let the building dry out, especially downstairs) and lack of maintenance over the years has a lot more to do with it than the fact we had boilers where the 1st floor conference room is...
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            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:11:05 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Comment from Kirk on 2009-04-30</title>
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                No wonder we have problems with mold and mildew in this building...yikes.
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            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:56:41 -0600</pubDate>
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