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Things are looking up for the marquee players at Castle Argghhh!. Dusty is learning to fly a bigger, badder, better-paying bird, Bill is going to go get to fly helos again, and train young birdmen in the skillz, and SWWBO and I are buying the farm. Hmmm. That last part didn't come out quite right... The point being, we're all getting to do something we all really want to do, as opposed to doing what we have little choice to do. And that's a good thing.
Bloodspite continues his assault on the Immigration Bill.
Bush calls Border Watcher's Vigilante Groups, while Mexico abuses Illegals.Well it took me some digging, but I managed to find this article. I knew I had heard it somewhere, but I wasn't able to find the link and the text until tonight.
Also on my website tonight I'll be posting a long detailed report regarding the poultry bust in Springfield via a friend of mine with the Missouri State Police. Including names. How many times people have been deported previously. And other such juicy tidbits
In the meantime, here's fuel for the fire.
BS
His promised blog post is here: Immigration By The Numbers: A Case in Point. -the Armorer
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Britain launches a new sub. No wonder they're mothballing others... that's an expensive bit of kit. What I find most fascinating about this article is that the comments... are mostly from Americans. -the Armorer
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From MNF-I:
Dubik taking responsibility for training Iraqi Security Forces
That's an unfortunate title for their piece - since we want the Iraqis to take responsiblity for their security forces...
The new face of the war in Iraq
Counterinsurgency expert advises Soldiers in Iraq -the Armorer
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Busy Angels - One More Poker Run: Operation Phone Home - since the American Legion Riders helped us out so much last weekend, we volunteered to help them this weekend with a second poker run to raise money for calling cards for our deployed. Started a little overcast, but turned out great (I have the sunburn and pictures to prove it).
Saturday, June 16 is "Military Appreciation Day" at Kauffman Stadium in KC where the Royals v. Marlins. If you don't watch the rest of the game, watch the opening ceremonies. (I can't say anything else at this moment, but will have more details later in the week- HINT).
And, keep looking out, we have something else really great in the works. It includes little balls, big clubs and famous people.
-Kat
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Cassandra has someone you should meet. -the Armorer
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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 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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