H&I Fires 5 Feb 06

Open post for those with something to share. New, complete posts come in below. Note: If trackbacking, please acknowledge this post in your post. That's only polite. You're advertising here, we should get an ad at your place...

Heh. A kinder, gentler Marine Corps indeed. Check the lede on this article on the Marine Corps website.

However - I strongly suspect that they're still yelling "You'll Be Sorree!" at these guys.

We've linked to this website before, about the guys who want to hunt with a Mountain Howitzer. They have. And successfully - and the target was still edible! (sensitive, "You shot Bambi!" types should not scroll to the end of the article). H/t, Joshua W.

Oh - and the new Throne of Argghhh! is vewy comfy! So much so that the Interior Guard has to be scattered so that my fundament may occupy the space. There *is* a nice shelf up top for them to supervise my cyber-activities - and supervise they do.

Carnival of the Recipes, over at Prochien Amy's place. Mmmmm, chocolate!

Unintelligence design. And while the Clinton administration started it - the Bush administration hasn't fixed it, either. Regardless of the start of the problem - after 6 years, they *own* the problem, nicht wahr? -The Armorer

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In a post entitled "Guardian Fetches A Bucket of Prop Wash," Confederate Yankee has the scoop on the latest "Downing Street Memo." The comments are hilarious. Ignorance and idiocy can be very fun!

Apparently we didn't get the whole story on the State Department's response to the Danish cartoons.

Replay of Blackfive on CNN at 1:00 eastern.

More on U.S. and international politics, military matters, the "cartoon wars," and the latest in the Libby case found here. - Fuzzybear Lioness

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Bemusing. Sink to Playful Primate, traffic goes up. Somehow get jumped up to Mortal Human again... traffic goes down. Hmmmm. Status, or traffic, status, or traffic. Heh. It doesn't matter. Ain't selling ads, anyway. -The Armorer

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Go Steelers! - Barb [This from a resident of the Sea-Tac area...]

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Probably seen on the Castle before, but I wondered if anyone had the opportunity to see the exoskeleton project in action? Live Video. The mechanism is choppy and loud, but, as a prototype for the future, it is magnificent. And, as usual, things that start out as a military application have connotations for civilians beyond war. The designer is hoping that the mechanism will give legs back to the paralyzed, the elderly or those with diseases such as Muscular disytrophy or spina bifida.

Those testing the prototype said they had 60lbs on their back and it felt like five. It's from Berkley UC. Who would have thunk it?

Steve Austin, your office is calling. -Kat
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I guess Brab is happy. -The Armorer

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*A term of art from the artillery. Harassment and Interdiction Fires.

Back in the day, when you could just kill people and break things without a note from a lawyer, they were pre-planned, but to the enemy, random, fires at known gathering points, road junctions, Main Supply Routes, assembly areas, etc - to keep the bad guy nervous that the world around him might start exploding at any minute.

Not really relevant to today's operating environment... but, it *is*

The UAVs we fly over Afghanistan and Pakistan looking for targets of opportunity are a form of H&I fires, if you really want to parse it finely. We just have better sensors and fire control now.

I call the post that because it's random things posted by me and people I've given posting privileges to that particular topic. It's also an open trackback, so if (Don Surber uses it this way a lot) someone has a post they're proud of, but it really isn't either Castle kind of stuff, or topical to a particular post, I've basically given blanket permission to use that post for that purpose. Another term of art that might be appropriate is "Free Fire Zone".