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WASHINGTON - Nine officers, including up to four generals, should be held accountable for missteps in the aftermath of the friendly fire death of Army Ranger Pat Tillman in Afghanistan, a Pentagon investigation will recommend.
General officer scalps. I'm *always* in favor. Pour le encourager les autres, of course.
John Kerry on a talk show... an Iranian talk show. From the Nose On Your Face.
While Sears has closed it's local store here in Castleville, and the Master and Mistress of Argghhh! have cancelled our accounts with Sears - we find this bit, via CAPT H, over at the Torch to be praiseworthy. Sears in Canada is Supporting the Troops. Good on 'em!
Jules Kharnival of the Iranities - Snatched Brits Edition. -the Armorer
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Camouflage for the Soldier at home
Rocks and Dirt via Thunder Run
I Miss My War. (h/t: blonde sagacity)
Air Force Cyber Space Command (h/t Austin Bay)
- Kat
*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 (oops, can't call 'em UAVs anymore - they're now Unmanned Aerial Systems... some Colonel got his Legion of Merit for that change...), er, um UAS's 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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