H&I Fires 7 Jan 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...

Via Heartless Libertarian (who got it from Murdoc, who got it from Winds of Change) comes this story of a fallen Lakota Warrior. I think I'll send you to Winds of Change's post on it.

Moving on... CAPT H notes that the boys at CIA are starting to sweat - the Canadians are thinking of getting in the game!

I dunno about this - mostly it's raised my bloodpressure dealing with all you prima-donnas!

If the Prodigal Son posts, he posts. He'll be 21 in just over a month. Not that I'm going to run for office or anything... but if my kid (who's better'n yours, btw) gets in trouble or does something goofy... hey, that's life. It just means that unlike me or his mom... he got caught.

As a former State Champion myself. Welcome to the Ranks, girl. *This* I can live with - she made it on her own, meeting the same standards as everybody else.

[Updated for those who think I'm not enthusiastic enough or am somehow denigrating the achievement, because obviously this girl is more special than any male (including myself and my father) who has ever won a State Championship, even though I was just happy she did it on her own without a whole bunch of feminists clinging to her back : I AM ******* DELIGHTED THAT THIS GIRL HAS ACHIEVED THIS MILESTONE, AND OFFER NO CAVEATS, NO QUALIFIERS, AND WILL DON SACKCLOTH AND ASHES FOR FAILING TO PROPERLY CONVEY MYSELF. /shouting-in-annoyance. My temper tantrum over, we return you to the post. See "Prima-donna comment earlier" grump grumble grump]

I just love watching someone do something extremely well. Especially when it's difficult to do. Chris Bliss' Finale is, to me, truly poetry in motion.

We shall see what we shall see. Stop the ACLU keeping an eye on WMD-issues. Dude has a far-ranging eye.

Mount up, Blackjack. The Border needs you.

And in *other* environmental news - our kid will live through another mini-ice age? I blame Bush. -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".