H&I* Fires Dec 26, 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. [Admittedly, I'm fibbing. Trackbacks are still broken]

You're advertising here, we should get an ad at your place...

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Christmas at Family Central was pretty good. We hope yours, wherever you were, was as well. We're on the road, headed back to the Castle. Y'all behave. -the Armorer

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If you need something to kick you out of your post-Christmas torpor, Op-for has the cure. Whew!

And apparently he hasn't had the chance to post this yet, but word is that John will be on the Hugh Hewitt radio show Wednesday (27 Dec) at around 4:20 p.m. Pacific Time. The entire show, which airs from 3:00 to 6:00 Pacific (that's 1500-1800 for you military types), will be about milblogs. You can listen live online here. - FbL

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Mebbe I wasn't gonna advertise to have the whole world drop in and listen to me embarrass myself... just sayin'. I mean, I'm the filler in this crowd, what with Matt, Austin Bay, Froggy, TF Boggs, and mebbe Wretchard. I might be the biggest guy at that table, but I'm the smallest voice. -the Armorer

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Rita, one of my blogneighbors/blogfriends', son made it home for Christmas from the Sandbox.

To say the least his 6 year old son, who Rita helps watch, was elated at the return of his father for Christmas.

It took him a second to see and then it was DADDY!!!! IT'S MY DADDY!!!!! And off across the terminal he sprinted, as hard as he could run, screaming DADDY DADDY DADDY DADDY!!!!!!! He leaped into my son's arms & hugged him as tightly as an almost-six yr. old possibly could, still yelling DADDY DADDY at the top of his lungs.

Read the whole thing here.

Radio & Blog Personality Don Elkins of Arkansas Tonight is heading East to assume a job behind a anchor desk in that locale instead of here. We'll miss ya Don.
H/t: tipthefiveforty

-BloodSpite

*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".