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/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:18:27 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:46:04 -0600 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89371 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89371 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:06:35 -0600
I do so wish that when our fore fathers decided to get the hell out of europe and come to the new US they'd have left all the poisonous and idiot philosophies of europe behind too.
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89352 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89352 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:49:44 -0600
Many were the hair shirts donned, sack cloth filled with ashes (I know, I know, I'm murdering the metaphor) over the morality of accepting filthy lucre and compromising ourselves on the corporate altar.

And we've all had the moment when some bit 'o muzak we identified with our rebellious yoot suddenly is used to push haemerrhoid creme...

Me?  My usual reaction is... "Heh.  Mick musta had a house payment to make."

Me, I'd love to quit my cubicle job and become a professional curmudgeon...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89351 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89351 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:51:59 -0600 Seems to me it's more of a case of Keeping the Faith.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89350 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89350 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:13:07 -0600 Yes to the AKO. That stopped me cold and I didn't want to fool around and use one of my .mil friends addresses just to go looking around. It is an ARMY site and us BLUE suits wouldn't know what we're looking at. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89347 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89347 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:40:27 -0600 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89346 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89346 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:16:46 -0600
One of the things the people behind that ad are going to be looking for is - how many sign-ups do they score per x thousand page views?

The higher that number, the happier they're going to be.  That said, it really is a very specialized ad campaign - but one made possible by the rise of new media niche markets. 

If we show, as a group, that milblogs have the oomph to pull this off, there's a good chance to expand the offerings and breadth of same.

I've already noted the campaign has some real limits to it as it requires an AKO address to sign up.  By putting that requirement in, they are cutting themselves off from a significant sum of their alumni, and potentially an important segment, since they envision this as a social networking medium, where people can network for jobs, etc. 

There are a lot of legal and philosophical issues that ROTC Command and other elements of the services have to work through here.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89345 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89345 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:14:41 -0600 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89344 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89344 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:12:39 -0600
But fine...as long as Finch from Sham Wow doesn't have anything to do with this. I already have two lifetime supplies.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89342 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89342 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:02:43 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89341 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89341 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:20:27 -0600 Well, yer so good at it, I hadda give it a try... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89338 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89338 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:36:26 -0600 Tramp http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89337 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89337 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:26:35 -0600 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89336 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89336 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:04:45 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89335 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89335 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:59:52 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89334 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89334 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:54:35 -0600
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89332 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89332 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:42:11 -0600
   I've been using Firefox for about a year now, and everything here comes in just fine...
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89331 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89331 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:39:34 -0600 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89330 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89330 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:36:15 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89329 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89329 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:31:03 -0600   Of further interest is that several of the phone numbers that are listed are disconnected.   Someone in the ROTC PR department needs to get on top of that issue pronto.  I had a couple questions about ROTC locally, and there's no way to get ahold of anyone through the numbers listed on that ad. 
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89328 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89328 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:02:48 -0600 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89327 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89327 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:29:50 -0600
One question, though -- how do they expect former kaydets to ID their old outfits when they're not labeled by school, but by cutsie monikers such as "Seneca" or "Mohawk" battalion?
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89325 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/okay_i_sold_out.html#comment-89325 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:48:46 -0600