H&I Fires* 10 April 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...

This is an interesting Carnival of the Recipes... there's a comic book theme. Whoa!?! Was that Ry and BCR that just went streaking by to The Ziggurat of Doom to check out the goodies?

CAPT H sent me this link to a bit on Samizdata about mini-ABMs for Peace!

New Department of the Army fund-raising Scheme to get around the Congress. Owen - here's your next big expose'! The Army Bake Sale!

Ooo! Ooo! Geeks with guns! Explosions! And a dying Apple product! What's not to like? Mind you, videos like this keep the anti-gun lobby alive... H/t, CAPT H.

I see we were doomed with La Schlussel, regardless. We don't think she's Da Bomb, we have 8 cats, and we're fat - along with White Guys and Smokers, the last group it's Okay To Riff On.... Snerk. Hey, Deb - this ought to make your fires burn the hotter - I get $1,193 tax-free dollars every month, due in no small measure to my being fat. There's a crusade for you to undertake - revoke the entitlement of hypothyroid veterans! Right up your alley anyway, bigot. Ah, gee, this grievance schtick feels kinda good... ;^) -the Armorer

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You know, when Abu Ghraib details broke out, my first thoughts were "Where in the HELL did those Soldiers EVER get the idea that treating POW's that way was in any form or fashion acceptable? So what if they didn't receive 'proper guidance'- any normal human being would have realized that sort of treatment is unnecessary, disgusting, and immoral!" Well, now I know where they got it from. SERE training. And I am one PISSED OFF CIVILIAN over this.

It's been two years since Matt Maupin was captured. Never forget Matt. I know, I can't. ~AFSister
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According to the Washington Post, you've been propagandized. - 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, 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".