H&I Fires* 6 OCT 2006

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...

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Call me cruel if you must, but I hope these two women don’t see natural sky or so much as a blade of grass for 3 years.

Light a fire on a university that causes millions in damage? Try to turn that clock back to a ‘simpler and better time’ while destroying places of learning? I call thee what you are: Luddite scumbags. You’ve earned the name and lived down to it.
ry
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Speaking of Luddites, SWWBO and I are off to Reno today for the Gunblogger Rendezvous! May Sarah BradySchumerStein suffer nausea with the knowledge we go to celebrate all things gunlike. -the Armorer

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Lex has some big decisions to make. - FbL

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Grim's got a good read on what is ailing the nation. Provocative. It is worth going on over to join the seminar over at his joint.
ry

*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".