The Exterminator
An’ de Spooky say, “Buuuuuuzzzzz.” Den, de bad guys say “Sssshhhhpppppllllaaaattttt!”
Old pal o’ mine was a Marine dog handler in Nam. First night out at his support base, his Sarge took him to an overlook. Darker than Shrillery’s soul, quieter than Casey Sheehan’s grave site on visiting day, looking over a long valley. Sarge sez to be quiet and watch.
Pretty soon, my friend sees a red ribbon of fire drop from the sky and splatter an area on the ground, in the darkness, moving in a circle. A moment later, he hears “Buuuuuzzzzz.” The Sarge laughs. “Puff,” he says. That was Spooky’s daddy.
He later led a platoon through an area hit by Puff the night before. Figured the Charlies was in bits and pieces under the layer of flies all over the shredded bit of woods, but he did not stop to investigate.
Yuck, but, oddly, you cannot look away.
Glorious! What a cracking bit of hardware. I understand it also has a 105mm howitzer !!!
<font size="3"><font face="arial black,avant garde">End of ballgame!! I don't know why we don't do more of this in other places
</font></font>Anybody remember the Monte Python cartoon of the big foot coming out of the sky and squishing down?
Beautiful.
Posted by armadefoc
01/09/2007 at 05:47 AM
"Puff the Magic Dragon” was a C-47 (aka DC-3) with four miniguns. Seeing and hearing a single minigun on a Cobra gunship was impressive, seeing Puff do his thang over there was truly a miracle to behold!
Every fifth round is a tracer, and a minigun looks like a continuous red laser beam when it’s firing. And sounds somewhere between a chainsaw on steroids and a “fuelie” dragster at full revs.
Peiper, heard an interview on NPR (ok ok calm down) by Steve the travel guy of two guys, one Slovenian and one eastern German, about changes in the former Soviet colonies. They point out something I had no heard about the EU - its goal of total cultural dominance. Seems that many places may no longer serve traditional local foods if they do not meet EU hygiene standards. EU wants to homogenize Europe. The guests pointed out that the former communist nations took big risks to become free lands, and now they are suborning their national liberties to a big, bloated central bureaucracy far from their homes and lives. Never would have thought that would pass the “acceptable truth” police on NPR.
As for the whining about the gunship attack, too friggin’ bad. Maybe they ought to do a gun run on a few of their own homegrown tangos instead.
Betcha that made ‘em burp their hummus.
Why is it counterproductive to peace efforts to destroy aggressors who kill and maim without conscience? As far as I’m concerned, any member of Al Quaeda or any other Islamo Fascist group, has forfeited any right to life. They have never made any bones about their methods or goals, so there can be no question of the utility of exterminating them.
After Spooky has paid a visit, identifying the dead could be an interesting problem. We’re talking about a 4 engined, industrial grade, portable shredding machine. Let’s see, 4 x 25mm Mini guns each at 3,000 RPM = 12,000 RPM Total = 200 explosive rounds per SECOND! The area will be ready for planting in the spring, well plowed and fertilized, all large rocks and trees well pulverized and blended for mulch. Any idea if they did use the 105 or is there a practical limit to overkill?
Oops, my mistake, I should have checked the rate of fire. I was thinking of the “old” Vulcan system. Make that 240 explosive rounds per second.
Wll maybe there’s a limit Doc, but I’d stretch it a good bit. You can make ‘em dead, or you can make ‘em dead and gone. Or you can make them dissappear like they never was. And the horse they rode in on, the building the horse was tied up at, the street the building was on ... gone. Then comes the napalm. Anything more than that becomes tilling the earth as you wrote. The final stroke would be laying down a carpet of rock salt and poison pellets. That would be overkill in most cases.
But Drew - why mess up good farmland?
There are a number of areas where a good scorched/salted/poisoned earth demo would be pretty demonstrative. The Somalis are going to need good, well fertilized land to feed themselves. I figure it will be a fitting memorial as to the fate of the Islamists. Each bit of left over bone or metal will be a reminder that we can and will make fertilizer out of those who attack us.
Then again, I liked the crescent design of the Flight 93 memorial. Not as a tribute, but as a reminder that the Islamo Fascists will remain a constant threat to all of us for a long time to come. It would not be an embracing crescent, it would be a grasping, imprisoning crescent.
I sure wouldn’t want to be on the receiving end of any of our weapon systems. Far more effective than anything the enemy has.
"Love is kind of crazy with a spooky little girl like you.” I bet Dennis Yost of the
Classics Four never would have guessed that Spooky would become the knickname of the
most powerful airborne weapons platform in the world. Nor would I have guessed a week
ago, that the U.S. military had been training the Ethiopian military for the past three
years to rid their neighbors of an IslamoNazi threat.I have at least a few conservative friends who have fallen prey to the Bush derangement
syndrome. They believe that his is mismanaging the current conflict. He can do nothing
right. This news item seems to prove otherwise. By Sept. 12, 2001, I knew that we were
entering what would eventually become WWIII. This war will expand to Iran and Syria at
the very least, and probably North Korea as well.I don’t give a rats ass about social or economic issues. What I want to know is that my
government is doing all it can to prevent innocent women and children from dying in the
malls, theaters, and pizza parlors of America. No Child Left Behind Act, I could care
less! Senior citizen drug discounts, who gives a crap? George W. Bush may have earned
a C- in a lot of areas, but in this one,(the only one that realy counts) he gets an A+I have news for the towel-headed 7th century barbarians that threaten us. The motto of
the C-130 crews is “You can run, but you’ll only die tired.” An enemy that only
displays his cajones when killing women and children, is in for a rude awakening when
he has to face a United States Marine, A Delta Force Commando, or a Navy Seal.When the late “Eye"-man al Zarkawi demonstrated that he did not even know how to operate
an assault rifle, I became convinced that most of these ass-wipes are Walter Mitty wanna-
be types, who will die gruesome deaths at the hands of real men. Their “Boy Scout camps”
in Afghanistan have produced fighters that will fold like a house of cards when facing
the lowliest PFC’s.In the end, the French would be a more formidable advisary!
Posted by Leonard Jones
01/10/2007 at 12:29 AM
Blood, gristle and bone make for verygood fertilizer, and 240 rounds per second make for very effective “plowing” of the earth. The happy weed and opium petunias ought to grow very well next summer!
...Burp their hummus ald f@rt their falafel
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