tag:www.thedonovan.com,2012://1/tag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10935- 2012-03-24T15:17:30Z 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 Movable Type 4.12 tag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10935 2009-06-24T12:59:18Z 2009-06-24T15:23:01Z

The Armorer http://www.thedonovan.com
So, I'm going to use a simple straight up alpha-substitution cipher for the registration number.

Which one d'you like better?

US ARMY
311920125 = Castle

Or,

US ARMY
11377888 = Argghhh

That's what it would look like on the hood.  According to the sources, Army registration numbers normally started with 20, but... hey.

I'm thinking about this for bumper markings:

5A-FFCA CA-6

Which means 5th Army (that's the guys who are currently responsible for the land defense of North America, better known as ARNORTH) and the FFCA means Fighting Fusileers of Castle Argghhh!, which is what I called my Soldier's Angel fund-raising teams.

CA-6 means Castle Argghhh 6, with 6 being the traditional bumper number of the commander's vehicle. I could also go with the more traditional HQ-6

Whatcha think?

Got other ideas?
]]> tag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10935-comment:90044 jim b http://www.cookiecrumbexpress.com/blog1/ 2009-06-25T18:09:04Z 2009-06-25T18:09:04Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10935-comment:90035 John of Argghhh! http://www.thedonovan.com 2009-06-25T14:46:41Z 2009-06-25T14:46:41Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10935-comment:90034 lvncenturion
I'm weighing in late on this, but had to give this serious matter some serious thought. 

USA No.:  Whatever rings your bell, your faithful correspondents have made some good suggestions.

Bumper No:  Your plan is a big negatory.  This is an historic vehicle and deserves historically accurate bumper numbers.  What were you thinking?  In view of your interest in a local connection to your vast estate, I suggest that you use the designation for the artillery battery that manned the nearby Nike site.  The proper period would be 1957-1960, so that would be before the split between Air Defense and Field Artillery which should assuage your bent against duck hunters in favor of cannon cockers.  At that time, they were Redlegs all.

Now, I don't know what unit might have manned said battery, but a quick trip to the CAC Library should provide an answer.  The BC would of course be assigned HQ - 1 and you are all set.  Ensure that you use proper colors, stencils, etc. - you cannot drive some jakeleg poser in a Veterans Day parade.
]]> 2009-06-25T14:23:26Z 2009-06-25T14:23:26Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10935-comment:90028 MAJ Mike
Don't remember the logic for the other staff weenies, but we exercised both official and unofficial call-signs. As Battalion and DIVARTY S-4, I took whatever vehicle the Motor CWO assigned me.  Bad COMSEC, I know, but hell, Ivan knew where we were and who we were anyway.

For external radio traffic, we used the daily CEOI assignments.]]> 2009-06-25T13:27:29Z 2009-06-25T13:27:29Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10935-comment:90021 cannonball ]]> 2009-06-25T03:03:17Z 2009-06-25T03:03:17Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10935-comment:90020 John of Argghhh! http://www.thedonovan.com
j. The vehicles will be numbered as indicated below.
(1) This marking is the sequence number of the vehicle in the normal order to march within the unit to which it is assigned.
(2) Vehicles assigned to any headquarters will be numbered with the vehicles of the appropriate headquarters unit, and will be given the lower sequence numbers used therein.
(3) Vehicles assigned to transportation motor pools may be assigned numbers in any appropriate sequence.

Sometime during the Vietnam adventure, probably due to radio callsigns, 6 got fixed as the commander's vehicle in many units.  I know it was in all the units I served in - except when I commanded HHB, then, because the DIVARTY Cdr already had HQ6, my truck was HQ66.

Good thing I didn't have yet another subordinate commander....]]> 2009-06-25T01:46:50Z 2009-06-25T01:46:50Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10935-comment:90018 R Jewell
I can't recall ever seeing anything except HQ 1 parked in front of the Orderly Room.

http://www.lonesentry.com/panzer/jeep-markings.html

]]> 2009-06-25T00:50:01Z 2009-06-25T00:50:01Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10935-comment:90013 JW 2009-06-24T22:31:25Z 2009-06-24T22:31:25Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10935-comment:90011 MAJ Mike
Number should read "1369007".]]> 2009-06-24T21:58:29Z 2009-06-24T21:58:29Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10935-comment:90010 MAJ Mike
Can anyone explain the origin of using "6" as the commander's call sign? 

Did it have anything to do with the late 1960's TV series "The Prisoner"?  The hero of the story was "Number 6".

Our mech batallion adopted BOHICA as our internal call sign (for various reasons) and our internal call signs were BOHICA-6 (Bn CDR), BOHICA-3 (Bn S3), BOHICA-A6 (Alfa Company Cdr), etc.

There must be a story behind it somewhere.]]> 2009-06-24T21:55:33Z 2009-06-24T21:55:33Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10935-comment:90008 Grumpy
Ancient languages, speaking, reading and writing was a part of my job spec. It's no big deal when you compare it with your background, even the stuff you figured was not worth the effort to remember. 

@Fishmugger, You wrote, "I can see where this is going, and I will not lower myself to partake in such perfidy." Now you wrote that you would not lower yourself to that point, Are sure you don't mean raise raise yourself to that very same point? Join the rest of us, *SNARK*! Don't worry, you'll still be a "Total failure at being a pompous A$$."

@John, all of that *and* common sense! My father always paraphrased Voltaire. I believe it is quite appropriate here. The paraphrase sounded like this, "Common sense ain't all that common."]]> 2009-06-24T21:24:28Z 2009-06-24T21:24:28Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10935-comment:90004 John of Argghhh! http://www.thedonovan.com
I got rolled in a Thing when I was in college.  Not sure I want to give one another chance to kill me...

We are going to kit it out with a pintle-mounted machine gun.]]> 2009-06-24T19:46:55Z 2009-06-24T19:46:55Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10935-comment:90003 Kirk
A R T I L L E R Y = 192933597

Just don't forget...the meaning of life is 42.]]> 2009-06-24T19:45:13Z 2009-06-24T19:45:13Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10935-comment:90002 H H I suggest tricking it out like the jeeps on the television show, "The Rat Patrol", and then you could get an old vehicle named, "The Thing", and turn it into a German desert car.  The VW Thing is pretty close to the old German vehicle used during the war.]]> 2009-06-24T19:21:14Z 2009-06-24T19:21:14Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10935-comment:90001 Fishmugger I can see where this is going, and I will not lower myself to partake in such perfidy. 2009-06-24T18:36:02Z 2009-06-24T18:36:02Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10935-comment:90000 John of Argghhh! http://www.thedonovan.com
And, as I've just demonstrated, I don't know my Greek alphabet very well.  For the record, I swiped it from Chuck Z's email sig, where the second word is in lower case.

Since I do intend to run this in parades and such, I'm thinking the "know your mother in an excessive and socially unacceptably way" offerings are probably not going to make the cut.  I can just see me explaining the bumper markings to a curious onlooker there with his or her children.

Snafu and fubar can work, as "fouled" can be substituted for the Anglo-saxon pressure release.]]> 2009-06-24T18:35:58Z 2009-06-24T18:35:58Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10935-comment:89998 Kirk
US Army
105155203

I know...rather mundane and obscure.]]> 2009-06-24T18:23:14Z 2009-06-24T18:23:14Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10935-comment:89997 AW1 Tim
   There's also the various standard acronyms.......

   SNAFU-6;    FUBAR-6;    FYBIJAR-6;    FYBIRA-6;    FYBING-6,

   or my favorite:  FYBIBM-6  (as in eff you buddy, I bayoneted mySELF 6.

    Personally, anyone who bayonets himself is seriously hardcore in MY book.  :)

   heh
]]> 2009-06-24T18:07:20Z 2009-06-24T18:07:20Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10935-comment:89996 Grumpy
Just curious, in your comment, #3, you write,

"Or to get *really* obscure - M(Lambda, lower case Greek 'L')-6"

Now, if you wanted to go to the upper case  of the same letter, to do the upper case of that letter in the Greek, just do an inverted "V".

Have some fun!
]]> 2009-06-24T17:49:43Z 2009-06-24T17:49:43Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10935-comment:89995 BillT http://www.thedonovan.com faux marble background -- or frame it between a pair of Mi-2s and get *really* obscure...
]]> 2009-06-24T17:41:26Z 2009-06-24T17:41:26Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10935-comment:89993 Eric Wilner http://siliconvalleyredneck.typepad.com/
]]> 2009-06-24T17:15:54Z 2009-06-24T17:15:54Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10935-comment:89992 John of Argghhh! http://www.thedonovan.com
Or to get *really* obscure - Μλ-6]]> 2009-06-24T16:35:13Z 2009-06-24T16:35:13Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10935-comment:89991 fdcol63
Or maybe BAMF-6:  "Bad @$$ MoFo-6".  LOL]]> 2009-06-24T15:59:08Z 2009-06-24T15:59:08Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10935-comment:89990 BillT http://www.thedonovan.com ]]> 2009-06-24T15:57:02Z 2009-06-24T15:57:02Z