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Given my post on the subject below - here's La Malkin's round-up on the WaPo Walter Reed story. You want to click through - our own Fuzzybear Lioness garned the attention of La Malkin! -the Armorer
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Chris Hitchens on "The War Within Islam."
The Thin Veil of Hate. H/t, Kiwi's Mom. -the Armorer
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Today seems inordinately short in the HI Fires, so I'll jump in...
You know the Navy is in charge when...three out of the five top stories on Centcom home page are about the Navy
You know you've been in Baghdad too long when...
AAR for KC Soldiers' Angels Armory Nights and Snake Saturday Parade Planning . A reminder, we still need people to walk with the float. We are looking for anyone that wants to show they support the troops. Parade is March 10 at 11 AM (parade staging arrival time To Be Announced). Please contact KC Soldiers' Angels if you are interested.
-Kat
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Looking at SangerM’s snaps, made me a wee bit nostalgic for the good ol’ fashioned Cold War days. And speaking of Ol’Fashioned, how ‘bout that old Wendy’s Commercial A Ruskie Fashion Show. I do miss those simpler times.
But alas, in a quiet corner of this good earth, such things are still going strong. I say, Move Over Donna Karan, Gucci, Messrs. Klein and Hilfiger, for The Great Brilliant Leader is The Great Fashionista too.
Now, How do you say Swim-Vare in Korean. MANSE! - 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 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".
[I got nothin' today. But I did set it up for y'all. Can I have a stale Cheeto?]
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