I’ve been in a few, from Shenandoah Caverns in Virginia to Inner Space under I-35 north of Austin. But this, apparently, is the largest found to date. It’s in Viet Nam, oddly enough. Another tourist attraction for a country that can always use another one.
Via Naturography.
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Posted in Scribbles, Texana, Viet Nam
Tagged Inner Space Caverns, Shenandoah Caverns, Son Doong, Viet Nam, World's Largest Cave
This seems to be it, as far as the American military is concerned, for the UH-1 Huey, the workhorse troop- and casualty-mover of the Vietnam war. Course the feeling of the nose-down takeoff, the wind roaring through the open side doors, and the distinctive sound of the rotor blades from the ground as one passes over will live on in memory, until the last veteran passes on. Few of them ever even knew it was, officially, called the Iroquois.
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Posted in Obituaries, Troops, Viet Nam
Tagged Huey, UH-1 helicopter, Viet Nam, Vietnam war
I don’t live in California, so I don’t know much about this guy. But I like his Barry-like brand and the fact he’s a Republican. But I especially like that he’s a Vietnamese-American. Being a Marine veteran is nice, too, but the Vietnamese part is the best for me. Good luck Mr. Quang, though I suppose he has Americanized his name to put his surname last. Make that Mr. Pham. His autobio also looks compelling. As the work of a conflicted son of a former ARVN pilot who spent years in a reeducation camp, it should be. I’d vote for him if I could.
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Posted in Viet Nam
Tagged 47th Congressional District, Loretta Sanchez, Quang Pham for Congress
"The Taliban are very brave, but they are ignorant brutal men who murder locals who do not support them, and brave doesn’t stop bullets." —Michael Yon
Sounds like the Viet Cong. Hope they don’t have the Cong’s tenacity. So far they seem not to have. But this "good war," as the Dems used to call it, to distinguish it from their "bad war" in Iraq, has a long way to go. Yon’s piece shows why. Amazes me, though, that the Brit troops have women medics and rifles. These women aren’t inadvertently in combat. They are in it on purpose. Revolutionary.
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Posted in Afghanistan, The War, Troops, Viet Nam
Tagged Afghanistan, Michael Yon, Viet Cong, Viet Nam, Vietnam war
South Vietnam is what this map reminds me of. Think of the red places as NVA-controlled Indian Country. Places where our forces didn’t/don’t go for very long. S. Warzistan on the left bottom is where that Predator’s Hellfire missiles killed all those Talibani at the funeral the other day. Eighty-something. I expected to be reading of Lefty outrage about that by now. The fact I didn’t sorta figures, though.This is Barry’s campaign now. He campaigned for it. His Leftist pals wanted it. Now they’ve got it. Lotsa luck. They’re sure going to need it.
I think they’re all going to be very sorry before The One’s first term is over. Iraq was/is the Left’s hated campaign, but it’s the one that made the most sense to me. Nevermind the WMDs and all that baloney. The point in going in there was/is that it’s in the middle of the Jihadi swamp that needs to be drained. I also believe that whatever success we’ve had there had more to do with the recent Iranian uprising than anything Barry said in Cairo or anywhere else. (He’s too longwinded, too on-the-one-hand, on-the-other-hand, to inspire anybody.) So let’s see what he’s going to do with Afghanistan. Wallow in the quagmire, I expect. Although that Predator strike on a funeral, of all things, was a good start. Wish we’d had more UAVs in South Vietnam. Apaches are nice, too.
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Posted in Afghanistan, Blogosphere, Iraq, Obamalot, The War, Troops, Viet Nam
Tagged Afghanistan, Apaches, Hellfire missiles, Iran, Iraq, Jihadi, Predator, South Warzistan, Taliban, UAVs
Not that we don’t remember and appreciate the dead of both older and more recent American wars and campaigns. We just tend to think of our own first.
Soldier, rest, thy warfare o’er,
Dream of fighting fields no more.
Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking,
Morn of toil, nor night of waking.
–Sir Walter Scott
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Tagged 1LT Daniel Lynn Neiswender, 1LT Jacob Lee Kinser, CPL Robert Chase, CPL Sherry Joe Hadley, CPT Reese Michael Patrick, Infantry Officer's Candidate School, Jr., Memorial Day 2009, OC 504-68, SP4 Jeffrey Sanders Tigner, SP4 Reese Currenti Elia, Viet Nam, Vietnam war
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