H&I Fires June 11th 2006

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Ahhh - Everything is so peaceful here in The Castle, this week-end. The coals are cold, at Cricket's Kitchen. FbL's and AFS' Chandeliers have been taken down for scheduled maintenance, and the Rita-Matic has long been dry, for lack of libations. I just hope that someone remembered to feed The Bedoodlewhoppies, and change The Scrup'ls water down in the Sub-Basement.

Anyhow - I'm just proud of The USAF. Their training will stick with you for a lifetime

Anyone who’s been to Vegas lately, certainly has seen Bellagio’s Bidet at work; snoozer! Well, for something a bit more interesting XXX Though somewhere in Germany, it must be sticky all over.

Oh - And how does a Plaster get Plastered??? - BOQ

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Sher at Two Blue Lines gives us an update on her husband's military medical situation after her calls for assistance earlier in the week. Please keep them in our prayers. Stop by and give them some moral support as they start out on the road to treatment and recovery. -Kat

Also, read the story of how wounded GIs are returning to the front. Mostly, they choose to stay for the man and woman beside them. Others believe in the mission. Some because they are soldiers for life. - 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".