H&I* Fires 23 Sep 2006

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I can't claim credit for this. Quick, Marvin the Martian is coming, get me a blunderbuss!

Thanks to Burke Sheppard of the FYEO mailing list. That's too funny.
ry
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Ry, me no do the maths, except the simplified versions for gunnery and calculating a tip. I do know the answer to this question though: "What is the volume of a pizza of thickness α and radius z? Confused? You have to read the *whole* post. -the Armorer

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So, Osama might be dead? Heh. I call Franco-in-Reverse* until we see confirmed DNA samples. Of course, as MaryBeth noted over at SWWBO's place (that link there, click it you fool - I get special credit for click-throughs!!!) if it's true, we'll be accused of spreading bioweaps in Pakistan. In addition to that, the anti-war left will inform us that it doesn't matter, OBL was a marginalized bit player figurehead and why the hell are we in Iraq still, diverting our attention from capturing [fill in the blank] who is the Real Problem (well, aside from Chimpy McBusHitler and his Puppetmasters Rove and Cheney, who we know are manipulating gas prices to steal another election so they can continue to kick welfare moms off of Medicare and give the money to Halliburton, so they can fund research into sterilizing inner city blacks by genetically modifying the malt used to produce Colt 45, while at the same time enriching themselves by steering all the contracts to build the border fence to their friends in Texas. Oh, and Cheney was the shooter on the Grassy Knoll).

Or something. Regardless, Osama will Not Be Important. -the Armorer

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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 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. 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".

*Obscure 70's cultural referent. Ha! That didn't help much, did it?

pi x e=? or 3,4,5 is indicative of what condition in trigonometry?