Graduation Day

Via Lex, here’s an extraordinary tale from Michael Yon about the Coalition arrest of a powerful Iraqi Police general. Everything about this story is extraordinary, and it’s something you’d never see in the NYT.

LTC Crissman, acting solely on his own and with no direct orders from above, saw that a bloodbath was about to be unleashed, and pulled a plan out of the sky. Yes, there had been a plan already afoot, but Crissman “fragged” it early, managing to arrest an entire police station without a shot being fired, and using me as a photo-op to distract a proud, some might say vain, general just long enough to disarm him.

This is the best read I’ve had in a month or so. I’m sure you’ll agree.

So. It’s Graduation Day. The actual ceremony begins at noon in an amphitheatre in Ogden…but preparations will continue apace this morning. Thus: another post of extreme brevity. I hope to be able to post pictures of The Graduate sometime later this afternoon, but I’m not sure how long the computer will remain available before it’s boxed and loaded into the U-Haul. Which, by the way, is filling up at an amazing pace. Coincidentally, the house is looking decidedly empty. Funny, that.

Today’s Pic: More plane pr0n…clear and not dark, this time. Under the wing of a C-124 Globemaster II, the first of the USAF’s large cargo haulers and a truly impressive airframe, for its time. Hell, the aircraft is pretty impressive even now…actually.