# National Guard plane strafes school **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 5, 2004, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-guard-plane-strafes-school/273102 "2004-11-05T01:15:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ltfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@ltfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ltfire)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-guard-plane-strafes-school/273102/1 "2004-11-05T01:15:30Z")
From this article in todays NY Times. [http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-School-Strafed.html](http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-School-Strafed.html) We don’t need foreign terrorists. Our own military can’t pay attention to detail. What’s next, a friggin bomb ‘accidently’ dropped on a full house football stadium? God, save us from ourselves. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-guard-plane-strafes-school/273102/2 "2004-11-05T01:36:44Z")
[agent 86] Missed it by that much [/agent 86] ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-guard-plane-strafes-school/273102/3 "2004-11-05T01:56:08Z")
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the strafing of the school There are holes across the roof because the pilot is a fool It’s terrified the parents though the kids are saying “cool” And shit goes marching on ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-guard-plane-strafes-school/273102/4 "2004-11-05T01:58:31Z")
:: Bows to **Cervaise** :: ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-guard-plane-strafes-school/273102/5 "2004-11-05T01:59:20Z")
I’m trying to decide whether to go with: “The little brats had it coming to 'em!” or “That pilot never cared much for math” Whaddya think? ---
**Author:** ![black\_rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-guard-plane-strafes-school/273102/6 "2004-11-05T02:07:09Z")
Howabout: “Looks like the President felt inspired to do another ‘Mission Accomplished’ flight.” ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-guard-plane-strafes-school/273102/7 "2004-11-05T02:13:38Z")
In other news, little Petey “Junior Maverick” Mitchell is suddenly declared academically eligible for Friday’s big football game against Red Bank Intermediate School. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-guard-plane-strafes-school/273102/8 "2004-11-05T03:15:50Z")
Just a friendly warning for those uppity blue states. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Berkut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-guard-plane-strafes-school/273102/9 "2004-11-05T03:17:59Z")
“Negative Ghostrider, the playground is full.” ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-guard-plane-strafes-school/273102/10 "2004-11-05T03:26:06Z")
Sounds like the guy is ready for deployment. ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-guard-plane-strafes-school/273102/11 "2004-11-05T03:39:36Z")
Yet another reminder that the best and brightest of the National Guard is not training in NJ. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-guard-plane-strafes-school/273102/12 "2004-11-05T03:59:17Z")
> [@ltfire](#): > > What’s next, a friggin bomb ‘accidently’ dropped on a full house football stadium? From the link: > [@](#): > > Errant practice bombs were blamed for forest fires that burned more than 11,000 acres of the Pine Barrens near the range in 1999 and more than 1,600 acres in 2002. ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-guard-plane-strafes-school/273102/13 "2004-11-05T04:05:25Z")
Corporal punishment is back, baby. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-guard-plane-strafes-school/273102/14 "2004-11-05T05:52:22Z")
I’d think that wouldneed to be Lieutenant Punishment (or at least Warrant Officer Punishment, if it was a helicopter gunship). ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-guard-plane-strafes-school/273102/15 "2004-11-05T06:52:15Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Mine eyes have seen the glory of the strafing of the school > There are holes across the roof because the pilot is a fool > It’s terrified the parents though the kids are saying “cool” > And shit goes marching on Glory, glory, hallelujah, My class has got more rubble than Fallujah, The teacher bought the farm And my fragile psyche’s harmed That shit keeps marching on! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-guard-plane-strafes-school/273102/16 "2004-11-05T07:33:25Z")
From the hall-monitors of Montezuma… I got nothing. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-guard-plane-strafes-school/273102/17 "2004-11-05T07:50:06Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > From the hall-monitors of Montezuma… Slightly adapted from _Mad_ magazine: From the School of Arts and Sciences To the classrooms by the Mall We will strafe and bomb and detonate Till our planes destroy them all We’re not Weathermen or radicals We have never screamed or yelled This is just our way of making sure That exams will not be held. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-guard-plane-strafes-school/273102/18 "2004-11-05T08:12:18Z")
He was obviously looking for Weapons of Mass Instruction. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-guard-plane-strafes-school/273102/19 "2004-11-05T10:14:55Z")
Sound to me like the latest round of “No Child Left Behind” incentives. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-guard-plane-strafes-school/273102/20 "2004-11-05T13:48:45Z")
In the hallways and the classrooms, 'stead of As and Bs and Cs There’s a roaring and a booming as the student body flees As they fall all dead and holey, let us watch on our TVs As the shit goes marching on! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-guard-plane-strafes-school/273102.md?page=2)