Comments on: 2/14 LHR QMI at the Ziggurat of Ur

By: Greg S

Greg S — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:25:06 +0000

Hey Fitz, I drove Anaconda and Avalanch at Sanananda, Wacol between 1973 and 1975 - those re-builds were a lot of work. Still, I think I would prefer a Beast to the 8 wheeler in your picture. All the best.

By: MikeFitz with overflow bit set...

MikeFitz with overflow bit set... — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 12:22:30 +0000

Aussie base in Iraq WIPED OUT! - by Google…

Last September I wrote this post which included this Google Satellite Image of the Ziggurat of Ur.
Google Satellite Image of the Ziggurat of Ur
The Ziggurat is just north of the massive US-operated Tallil air base in the southern Iraqi province of D…

By: MikeFitz with overflow bit set...

MikeFitz with overflow bit set... — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 03:35:12 +0000

Iraq Diggers silenced - my comments in The Sunday Mail…

Welcome to readers following up my comments in today’s Sunday Mail article “Iraq Diggers silenced” by Lucy Carne. You may be interested in my earlier posts on this topic:

Crackdown on MilBlogs? - Thu 21 Sep 2006
2/14 LHR QMI at…

By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 02:35:43 +0000

You know, In the muhajaradin (damned if I know how to pronounce that let alone spell it) in Afganistan, they used horse mounted units to strike at armoured Russian vehicles with around a 30 percent success rate (if you believe the published stuff).

Imagine the effectiveness of a well trained mounted soldier and a decent rocket launcher on broken ground, covered from a ridge by a decent sniper.

There is a lot to be said for the trusty horse. It can still go places no vehicle can go. Given the price of fuel, we may all end up back there

By: MikeFitz

MikeFitz — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:25:21 +0000

Hi Boff: The Pyramids. You reminded me, on the same day last year (Sep 24 2005), I was actually at the Pyramids for the light & sound show in the evening. I’ll dig out some photos & post them.

Whether to reconstruct or just preserve ancient monuments is always a tough call. We may all like to see what they looked like on the day they were built. But to reconstruct would obliterate the 4000 years of history that has happened to them in the meantime.

Some remarkable preservations have happened too. In the 60’s & 70’s UNESCO spent $40m (a princely sum in those days) rescuing the temples at Abu Simbel and Philae from the rising waters of the Aswan dam. The temples were moved stone by stone and reassembled in EXACTLY the state they were found.

Thanks for the prompt, I can feel the material for a new post coming on.

Neil: I think Australian Cavalry units gave up the horses long ago. In the British Army, however, the Household Cavalry (Prince Harry’s mob) has both an armored division and a mounted regiment for ceremonial stuff.

By: Neil

Neil — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:01:01 +0000

Good god mate… what the hell have they been feeding those HORSES!!! a diet of IRON?? I guess you can still put your saddle over the main gun…

Photo does look like a recruiting poster…

Cheers

By: MadameBoffin

MadameBoffin — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 13:00:18 +0000

*contented sigh* just looking at historical monuments is great. By the looks of things, Ur is in much better condition than the Pyramids… it’s a shame that the Pyramids can’t be restored in the same way.