Last week, fourth platoon moved some M-113 Armored Personnel Carriers to a checkpoint in the southern part of their area of operations, and ran an IED sweep on the way. These tracked vehicles have a driver’s hatch in the front, a gunner’s hatch up top, and a personnel compartment in the rear with a large roof hatch that opens so that the men in that compartment can take up gunning positions on the sides of the vehicle. The platoon I am with is a cavalry platoon—more specifically armored (tank) cavalry. Their vehicle of choice is the Abrams tank, so the M-113s are a bit diminutive to them. This trip allowed me to try out my best Dukakis impression, albeit riding in the personnel compartment. As luck would have it, I was the one with the camera, so I avoided any Dukakis-like pictures. I do have some pictures of the professionals at work, which I will post as soon as the internet moves fast enough to load some more images.
Needless to say, Alts "George Bush" moment will be when he wanders onto the middle of a raging battlefield - wearing a flight suit, of course - and declares that the fighting is over.
Hey Starbuck, if you had any military knowledge at all, youd know that anyone who flies in a fighter jet must wear a flight suit. And get over the "mission accomplished" syndrome already; weve gotten over Gores attempted shenanigans in Florida.
The fact that he wore a flight suit while in a jet is not the issue, you buffoon. Its the fact that he just had to fly in on a fighter just in the first place.
Of course, I shouldnt complain. Antics such as the USS Abraham landing and Bush making a trophy out of Saddam Husseins pistol simply back up what most of us already know --- that hes just a spoiled, simple-minded little daddys boy who has spent the last four years "playing war."