tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161526002238586054.post2238737710647326847..comments2023-09-08T08:20:13.780-04:00Comments on Two-Fisted Blogger: The Infantry, the Infantry, With the Dirt Behind the Ears...Hank Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01241805904517893443noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161526002238586054.post-7364186365266443372012-12-01T14:09:23.575-05:002012-12-01T14:09:23.575-05:00Not true, Walter--the Air Force has no perfectly g...Not true, Walter--the Air Force has no perfectly good airplanes! <br /><br />The legs always used to say, "Only 2 things fall from the sky: birdshit and fools."Hank Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01241805904517893443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161526002238586054.post-48620179960784416152012-12-01T11:13:40.075-05:002012-12-01T11:13:40.075-05:00You volunteered to jump out of a perfectly good ai...You volunteered to jump out of a perfectly good airplane? We need to talk.<br /><br />Our marines kicked ass when they liberated Fallujah, but what did the press focus on? A shoot-no-shoot situation caught on film. Those media fools would have considered eating a few chocolate bars to be a war crime.<br /><br />Fallujuh was important because Iraqis got to see what it would be like being ruled by terrorists. Iraqis in Fallujuh were brutalized for an extended period of time, until we saved them.Walter Knighthttp://www.waltknight.yolasite.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161526002238586054.post-11917585742931370482012-11-30T19:28:00.969-05:002012-11-30T19:28:00.969-05:00You mean like a platoon sergeant?You mean like a platoon sergeant?Hank Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01241805904517893443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161526002238586054.post-40436474868164709002012-11-29T22:32:28.496-05:002012-11-29T22:32:28.496-05:00" I wanted a dead-end slot in the one MOS wit..." I wanted a dead-end slot in the one MOS with absolutely no civilian application: Grunt."<br /><br />I dunno...the spousal unit's a pretty good schoolteacher. There's not much about handling teenage boys that he doesn't know.Shayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16527241089629026268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161526002238586054.post-81148881790516483912012-11-27T20:24:45.137-05:002012-11-27T20:24:45.137-05:00I'm just now getting to the battle for Falluja...I'm just now getting to the battle for Fallujah. What a gaggle at the breach! If the shoe was on the other foot, the Marines would never stop ragging on how incompetent the Army was. Bet they'll have nothing to say about this.Hank Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01241805904517893443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161526002238586054.post-35841962268502473302012-11-27T12:38:34.712-05:002012-11-27T12:38:34.712-05:00I read House-to-House a few years ago and actually...I read House-to-House a few years ago and actually wrote a paper on it for a grad class I was taking. A really solid book, almost too short, but extremely visceral and "no shit there I was". Hope you finish it soon and give us your final verdict.Jack Badelairehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10932441028544500024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161526002238586054.post-65757763597020372262012-11-27T10:36:04.951-05:002012-11-27T10:36:04.951-05:00Hi Sean, and welcome.
Who says men can't mult...Hi Sean, and welcome.<br /><br />Who says men can't multitask? Too bad there's not an occupational field which primarily requires reading books--we'd be pros at it, eh?Hank Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01241805904517893443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161526002238586054.post-69332294189660472802012-11-27T04:15:35.215-05:002012-11-27T04:15:35.215-05:00I'm always reading multiple books at the same ...I'm always reading multiple books at the same time too. Usually I'm reading two or three as research for my latest project for Osprey, along with one or two more nonfiction books, a novel, and a shirt story collection.<br />This book sounds interesting. Another good book on Iraq is My War by Colby Buzzel. Excellent book with some great insights into the Iraqi people that I found to be accurate when I visited the country last month.Sean McLachlanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09778503397743759469noreply@blogger.com