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You're advertising here, we should get an ad at your place...
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Lex has uncovered a plot--in his very own home! (In other words, the Scruples have a new recruit). - FbL [UPDATE: be sure to check the comments at Lex's--as BillT says in comments here, "Jake and Muffy visited Lex to say "Hey" to the new 'cruit. It wasn't pretty..."]
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The real test - will Ry notice this post when he sets up his? BTW, Ry - yer doin' an *excellent* job. Thanks. -the Armorer [FbL sez: I put the first H&I Fires post up a few days ago and he noticed that one, IIRC].
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Even though he's shilling for votes in a contest where we threw our support to Blackfive - this is worthy of a link, regardless. Sgt. Hook. H/t, Mike D. Snerk. We've gotten all of *5* more votes this week. And Sgt Hook has overtaken Blackfive. Gad, we have no influence *at all!!!* It's time to consider retiring the site. 8^) -the Armorer
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When opportunity knocks. Ouch. It pays to employ common sense about opening attached files to your email. Curiosity can kill more than just the cat.
Like EF Hutton of old, when The Salamander speaks you should listen(and he echoes The Armorer). I say this is how we should’ve reacted to the PLAN sub incident as well. If it comes to cases this is a serious problem.
I hope this isn’t GPS reliant.
US the Resilient. Well, would you rather live thru a catastrophe somewhere else?
--ry
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The End of the World? Dorking. H/t, Mike D. -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".
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