Military Notes

Wizbang has a Milblog of the Week feature. This week's is Chairborne Stranger. His description of being in an IED attack is chilling:

You get the smoke and the metal hitting all around you before you actually hear the sound of the explosion. If you hear the explosion-you know you made it through ok. Wiggle the hands and feet to make sure you have all the parts.

Instapundit has linked to foreign policy concerns with Britian over the JSF. They want the best stuff. We want assurances that our technology won't end up in French and German aircraft through the Ministry of Defense's other defense technology transfers. It is a very reasonable request considering how we have gotten hosed by other countries in the past tranferring technology not just to our friendly competitors in the EU, but our possible future opponents like China.