H&I Fires* 4 Mar 06

Open post for those with something to share, updated through the day. New, complete posts come in below this one. 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...

You've been warned.

The Armorer's Cartoon Debut! -The Armorer

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Another military robot. The company website also has a video. - Fuzzybear Lioness

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Lex's Friday Musings are worth a visit.

Caption Contest at The Right Place.

And Cassandra has a worth charity project. Really. Trust me on this.

Oy. Via Lost Budgie Blog we find this fine example of journalistic judgement. We're with the Budgie - how about some truth?

Sometimes, Bejus' Brother ain't too dumb fer a grunt.

Bejus is more funner to read though.

Alan notes some chaptes of WWII are still open.

As the Flea notes - Madonna must be prevented from taking this name in vain! -The Armorer

*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, right? 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".