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JRobb offers up yet more non-defeatist criticism, unlike some Congress Critters, of GEN Patraeus' plan.
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Barnett thinks ADM Fallon made a media relations mistake.
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A post examining, a little, something near and dear to many of us: whether IO and PAO should be run by separate shops.
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Good news from Iraq... in the LA Times, of all places.
Democrats playing politics with Petraeus. The General leading operations in Iraq comes to town and you don't have time to meet with him??! "Just a scheduling confict," huh? Sure. Pretty hard to look the General you voted for in the eye when you're doing all you can to make sure he fails and the blame falls on his CinC. - FbL
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Blue Angel aircraft down in Beaufort, SC airshow. 1 confirmed fatality, but unknown if it's the pilot or someone on the ground (conflicting reports). CNN article here. -the Armorer
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This is *my kind* of Miss America! An older, tougher form of 'Murican. Miss America 1944.
Ramey said the man told her he would leave. "I said, 'Oh, no you won't,' and I shot their tires so they couldn't leave," Ramey said.She had to balance on her walker as she pulled out a snub-nosed .38-caliber handgun.
Go read the rest, at Betsy's Page.
Apparently Ms. Venus Ramey, of DC, gained her skillz *before* the City Council disarmed its citizens. H/t, SWWBO. -the Armorer
Update: The pilot is the fatality. Here at the Castle we mourn the loss to the brown shoe Navy, but take solace in the fact that no one else was apparently seriously hurt. CNN follow-up here.
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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 (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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