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CDR Salamander points out that US vets of just about any age are dangerous people to pick a fight with.
Carren Ziegenfuss is not a fan of Senator McCain. I frankly wouldn't have linked this, due to it's nature - except that I know Carren, and have no reason to believe she would either have made this up for partisan purposes, or mis-understood what was going on.
MAJ John with the News From Afghanistan.
Soldier's Dad, on former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's latest foray in speechmaking. -the Armorer
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The Pentagon Channel will cover this at 1030 & repeat it at 1430
Walter Reed Briefing: Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ADM Edmund Giambastiani speak with reporters at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Yet another reason I am a Bush supporter..............when something isn't working he calls in the Navy. Go Admiral G!.......Maggie
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I've been asking for a plan from the Democrats - according to Bob Owens, Senator Reid is drafting one. -the Armorer
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It seems NATO might win more Afghan hearts and minds by putting two in the heart and one in the mind of a few more Taliban thugs. - Damian
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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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