{"id":57199,"date":"2014-12-19T11:31:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T16:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57199"},"modified":"2014-12-19T11:53:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T16:53:44","slug":"yer-friday-funny-bombing-the-crap-out-of-the-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57199","title":{"rendered":"Yer Friday Funny: Bombing the Crap Out of the Enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"

We hear that phrase from time to time.\u00a0 But it\u2019s rarely done in practice.<\/p>\n

However,\u00a0check out this little gem from Vietnam:<\/p>\n


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Yes, that is EXACTLY what you think it is\u00a0slung under the wing of that aircraft (an A-1H belonging to the US Navy’s VA-25).\u00a0 For the details, check out this story about VA-25 in Vietnam<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 An alternate version may be found here<\/a><\/em>, with video (if you can get it to run – I can’t).<\/p>\n

No word on whether the intended target for that unique bit of \u201cordnance\u201d was a VC field latrine.\u00a0 (smile) \u00a0Regardless, hopefully the lads packed the damn thing full of C4 and rigged\u00a0it to blow when the nose fuse went off.<\/p>\n

You nautical types are sometimes kinda weird. \u00a0But we still love ya like brothers (and sisters) anyway. \u00a0(smile)<\/p>\n

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Hat tip to Poetrooper for the first link above.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We hear that phrase from time to time.\u00a0 But it\u2019s rarely done in practice. However,\u00a0check out this little gem from Vietnam:   Yes, that is EXACTLY what you think it is\u00a0slung under the wing of that aircraft (an A-1H belonging to the US Navy’s VA-25).\u00a0 For the details, check out this story about VA-25 in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,121,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather","category-war-stories","category-who-knows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-eSz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}