H&I* Fires 19 July 2006

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I'm off to work - here ya go! Idiots in Action.

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Muuuuuuwaaaahahahahahahaaaaaa!-Instapilot

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Some of the best Marines out there have never set foot on a battlefield... - FbL

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Mimi Miyagi - a gubernatorial candidate I could get behind.

Sheesh, he's got time to post in the H&I, but can we get a good rant out of him? Nooooooooooooooo. -the Armorer

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Semper I, from Old War Dog Russ Vaughn - worth it for the accompanying graphic alone. -the Armorer

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High Five to the Perez family!

Family wallops would-be robber, wraps things up for police By Kevin Deutsch

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

WEST PALM BEACH — While covering his head amid the barrage of flying fists and feet, his legs bound with a jump-rope by children half his size, a bruised and bloodied Craig Mack a$$hat had a sudden realization, police say: He'd picked the wrong family to mess with.

Mack arrived at the Perez family home at 611 28th St. Monday night just as an exhausted Mateo Perez was getting home from a 12-hour day of landscaping and cleaning buildings. Mack the a$$hat probably figured he could swipe Perez's wallet and get away without much of a fight, police said.

Wrong.

But he the a$$hat didn't count on having to brawl with the rest of the Perez clan: Candelaria, the 4-foot-9 housewife with a wicked right hook she honed as a girl on the streets of Guatemala; daughter Imelta, the mellow 13-year-old who never dreamed she would take a chair to a robber's head and tie him up; and son Juan, the 10-year-old Miami Heat fanatic who traded his basketball for a stick to whip an attacker.

It just gets better - read the rest here.

I'm sure the a$$hat will have a lot of fun with the taunts he's going to get from his jail buddies.

Which means, sadly, the Perez' better maintain good situational awareness, in case the a$$hat comes back looking to avenge his non-existent honor. -the Armorer

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With this kind of MOJO at hand, I pity our enemies. – BOQ

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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 http://www.thedonovan.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt.cgi?__mode=view&_type=entry&blog_id=1exploding 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".