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April 27, 2004

Spooky

At this moment, I am watching AC-130's pounding ammo dumps in Fallujah. From the ground, it must simply seem like being attacked by phantom sounds in the night.

25mm Gatling gun. 40mm Bofors cannon. M102 105mm cannon.

It must be like standing under the fires of hell--terrifying, deadly, and seemingly invincible.

Spooky, indeed.

Update: I'm now listening to a pool reporter talking, on FoxNews, about PsyOps actions before the Fallujah attack began. One of the things that the PsyOps teams were doing was calling out for the insurgents to come out and fight followed by the loud sound of laughter.

Damn, I always wanted to be PsyOps.

Posted by zombyboy at April 27, 2004 12:50 PM | TrackBack

Comments

Dude, that's Psyops, as in PSYchological OPerationS, not as in PSIonic Ability OPerationS.

We're trying to freak them out, not read their minds or bend spoons...

Posted by: nathan at April 27, 2004 03:23 PM

Fixed, ya little whiner...

Posted by: zombyboy at April 27, 2004 03:56 PM

[grin]
Then again, your way had some intriguing aspects.

Gen Four-star: What's going on out there? Where's my PsiOps guy?
Psi-Ops Guy: There is a disturbance in the Force, one like I haven't felt...since...

Posted by: nathan at April 27, 2004 05:01 PM

See, that's the group I always wanted to be a part of...

Posted by: zombyboy at April 27, 2004 05:04 PM

Men and their love of games....:)

Z, have ya been to my blog lately? I posted about one of R's buddies choosing to go back to Iraq (as an officer in the USMCR).

Posted by: Rae at April 27, 2004 06:09 PM

P.S. Thank goodness for Nathan- the walking Grammar/Punctuation Man ;) Nathan- have I got a book for you, but I'll head on over to your place to tell you about it.

Posted by: Rae at April 27, 2004 06:11 PM

I want to meet the guy who thought of the AC-130, and shake his hand, cause he is my kind of guy.

Let's call him Bill, and look at the development of that plane.

"Hey Bill, what are we going to do with this extra 105mm cannon?"

"I got an idea, wount it on a plane, and we can shell any m%^&%*%$%$f^&*^&*^er that gets in our way, from the air."

"No way."

"Way. And we'll add some more guns for more fun."

Also, the targeted nature of this plane creates less colateral damage than bombs.

Posted by: Shad0runr at April 28, 2004 09:43 PM

s/wount/mount/g

If you understand this, you are as big of a geek as I am.

Posted by: Shad0runr at April 28, 2004 09:45 PM