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Murdoc has a book review.
Zenpundit directs to yet another interesting blog.
--ry
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Why the gun is civilization. A little discussion on the Right to Keep and Bear Arms over at the Munchkin Wrangler. The comments are worth the perusal.
TGIF (yeah, I know, it's not). As CAPT H noted in an email comment - it's worth it for Kim du Toit's comment alone. H/t both of these, CAPT H.
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Angel Alerts: Request for immediate emergency monetary assistance from Soldiers' Angels Forum for returned Iraq Veteran and his family of six (soon to be seven). Donations to be made to Soldiers' Angels with note "Sgt. O".
Read about it here
A very interesting read regarding the Algerian Insurgency v. Iraq Insurgency
Pajamas Media has running coverage from around the globe on the Brits the Iranians "arrested" for "espionage".
A very long and moving read from Newsweek: If You Are Reading This...
When you're done being completely sappy, head over for a little caption this, especially for all you navy type folks.
What I don't get about angels is why, when someone is in love, they shoot arrows at them. Sarah, Age 7 I hear angels all the time in my dreams. And I'm sticking with that no matter how many people tell me I'm crazy. Molly, Age 8-Kat
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DoD uses several acronyms that Normals are -- sadly -- learning the meaning of. KIA. WIA. MIA.
Here's one you may not have seen before: BNR. Body Not Recovered. Generally entered in the database for flight crew types who go missing in bad weather in the mountains or whose last known position was over water.
Every so often, the BNR is expunged. This one hit home, because one of my flight school classmates went BNR in the same area, for the same reason. Thirty-seven years ago.
H/t to NevadaDailySteve
Another Hunter has taken the path to Fiddler's Green. LtCol Chase Nielsen passed on Friday at age 90.
Nielsen was a navigator in one of the most daring air raids in American history, when 16 B-25 bombers took off from an aircraft carrier and bombed Tokyo on April 18, 1942.Nielsen and his crew -- named "Crew 6," because of the order in which they left the aircraft carrier -- ditched the plane off the coast of China after it ran out of fuel. He then spent more than three years as a Japanese prisoner of war. Nielsen was the only member of "Crew 6" to survive the war.
Now, there remain but fourteen of the eighty Raiders who first struck back at the Home Islands. --Bill
H/t to V29
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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