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/2010/01/haitian_ygbsm_m.html Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:08:09 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/haitian_ygbsm_m.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/haitian_ygbsm_m.html Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:01:53 -0600

(apart from that: one massive kick ass job well done)
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/haitian_ygbsm_m.html#comment-97733 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/haitian_ygbsm_m.html#comment-97733 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:20:49 -0600
Signature? This could be *really interesting*, actually taking responsibility.

By the way,  the term, "dumb ass" would be construed as a promotion, in these circumstances.
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/haitian_ygbsm_m.html#comment-97708 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/haitian_ygbsm_m.html#comment-97708 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:03:11 -0600 Right after Desert Storm we were heading back to Diego Garcia with all the leftovers. We got diverted to Bangladesh to help after a monster cyclone hit. Looked like the bomb was dropped there. We spent weeks helping out but even back then the beaurocrats had the final word.
One example: we had pallets full of MREs we were not allowed to hand out. Reason: they might be tainted with pork and would insult the imams.
Islam, gotta love it....

]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/haitian_ygbsm_m.html#comment-97658 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/haitian_ygbsm_m.html#comment-97658 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:06:55 -0600
Tsunami-U.S. Miltiary is the most effective relief system in the region, saves lots of lives.

Haiti: U.S. Military, who've got recent experience and practice doing this exact thing, are screwed with by USAID Bureaucrats who were totally ineffective in the previous disaster(s) of international scale.

This had to be a verbal from the POTUS to the Joint Cheifs-I don't see U.S. troops taking an order like this from some pencil-pushing asswipe otherwise.
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/haitian_ygbsm_m.html#comment-97653 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/haitian_ygbsm_m.html#comment-97653 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:26:37 -0600 When Keith and I discussed this tonight, he pretty much said the same thing, but in NCO terms instead of the proper Officer words you used.  In other words... he said... "F*** You, A$$wipe... we're doing it anyway.  Just TRY to stop me."

heh.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/haitian_ygbsm_m.html#comment-97642 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/haitian_ygbsm_m.html#comment-97642 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:57:30 -0600 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/haitian_ygbsm_m.html#comment-97641 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/haitian_ygbsm_m.html#comment-97641 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:42:27 -0600 All it takes is a spine, really.... sigh
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/haitian_ygbsm_m.html#comment-97636 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/haitian_ygbsm_m.html#comment-97636 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:11:55 -0600
And then say, "How about you shoot a couple of flunkies over here to do the grip and grin for the cameras, and we'll get some food handed out to hungry people who really don't give a flying flip who is handing it to them?"

And until I get the order in writing, with a signature, I'm handing out food.

"Have a good day, dumbass."]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/haitian_ygbsm_m.html#comment-97634 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/haitian_ygbsm_m.html#comment-97634 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:41:20 -0600

@All, When you go into these countries, assume nothing. When I look at this situation and find the corrupt official or merchant, I have a special honor for them. They should become, "Life Sustaining Members of the Shark Preservation Society." (This is also known as, "Sleeping with the fishes.")
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/haitian_ygbsm_m.html#comment-97632 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/haitian_ygbsm_m.html#comment-97632 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:11:53 -0600
It's times like this when I realise what a disaster the UN is for us all.  We need a UN which works efficiently for the good in cases like this.  Instead we have to use anything but the UN to get things done.
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/haitian_ygbsm_m.html#comment-97628 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/haitian_ygbsm_m.html#comment-97628 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:34:28 -0600
USAID bureaucrats are in the lead, not the US military.  Sounds like territorialism/p*ssing contest.
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/haitian_ygbsm_m.html#comment-97627 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/haitian_ygbsm_m.html#comment-97627 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:08:02 -0600 hey right hand, hey left hand what are we doing, who knows... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/haitian_ygbsm_m.html#comment-97622 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/haitian_ygbsm_m.html#comment-97622 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:04:59 -0600 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/haitian_ygbsm_m.html#comment-97620 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/haitian_ygbsm_m.html#comment-97620 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:59:25 -0600 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/haitian_ygbsm_m.html#comment-97618 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/haitian_ygbsm_m.html#comment-97618 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:39:28 -0600