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

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http://lists.csua.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gzg-lMike Yon is one of
the best out there. I regularly read that blog.
 John
 On 9/6/05, Roger Books <roger.books@gmail.com> wrote: 
> 
> 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@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On 8/29/05, Doug Evans <devans@nebraska.edu> 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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"Thousands of Sarmatians, Thousands of Franks, we've slain them again
and 
again. We're looking for thousands of Persians."
--Vita Aureliani