H&I Fires 11 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...

New caption contest at The Right Place.

Some New and not-quite-so-new Doctrinal Terms in use in the services (some of which I heard in use this week).

Rammer had some interesting links this week.

Have at it - we're going shooting today! - The Armorer

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Sgt. Hook has a great caption contest.

Belmont Club has two must-reads: liberals in the Middle East, and free speech in Europe.

Military insults and practical jokes, courtesy of Uncle Jimbo and commenters. - Fuzzybear Lioness
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The Forgotten Legacy of TE Lawrence Jenkins Op Ed tries to paint TE as a tough realist that is needed in today's Iraq. From my perspective, TE was anything but a "realist" since it could be said that he had an Arab dream, he never told his Arab friends what was going on because he kept thinking he could pull off the winning deal and he went home a broken man. He had a unique perspective of the bedouin still applies today on a personal one on one basis, but the rest of his legacy wouldn't hold up to modern media and public sentiments. In fact, T E would be lucky if he was discharged from service without being charged as a war criminal. - Kat

*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".