Re: Vehicle Recognition: Re: [GZG] The dreaded Panzer Chaffee

[Roger Books <roger.books@xxxxxxxxx>]

What about some of the indies?  Such as:

http://michaelyon.blogspot.com/

The site leaves me really impressed with the people who have been
around the block in the nasty places in Iraq.

Roger Books

On 9/1/05, John Atkinson <johnmatkinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
>  
> On 8/29/05, Doug Evans <devans@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> > oerjan.ariander wrote on 08/29/2005 10:29:15 AM:
> > 
> > > As long as they can tell the difference between a LAV-25/BTR (with 
> > wheels)
> > > from an Abrams/M-109/T-72 (with tracks), they're a lot more competent at
> > 
> > > vehicle recognition than most journalists...
> > 
> > Jack of all, master of none, seems to be the problem with journalists. I 
> > hear the same complaint about financial news commentary, though in both
> > cases, there's indication of improvement.
> > 
> > I also recently heard that the number of journalists killed in Iraq has
> > exceeded the number killed in two decades of the US in Viet Nam. Suggests 
> > they are paying their dues...
>  
>   
> Hang out with people who hate Westerners, thinking your ultra-liberal
> credentials will protect you, and you might get a nasty surprise. 
>   
> But no, based on the number of stories where I have had an opportunity to
> either be present when it happened, or talk to Soldiers who were, the media
> is not in any danger of acquiring a clue any time soon. 
>   
> CNN, for instance, broadcasts nearly all their stories from the roof a hotel
> in the Green Zone.  Safest place in the country, and they are all dolled up
> in flack vests and helmets and "here in the heart of Baghdad".  Dumb shits. 
> Even the US GIs in the Green Zone are in shirt sleeves and boonie caps. 
>  John
>  
> > -- 
> > "Thousands of Sarmatians, Thousands of Franks, we've slain them again and
> again.  We're looking for thousands of Persians." 
> > --Vita Aureliani 
>  
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