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From MNF-I:
Soldiers seize, destroy bomb factory
Estonian minister of defense visits 'Stone Platoon' at Camp Taji
First LAR Marines always on watch
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The house inspection went well yesterday. Not too much to go back to the owners with. Now to just tidy up the financials - and close on the 29th. Camp Argghhh! (or whatever it gets named) inches closer to reality! -the Armorer
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Reid Disses Generals on Iraq War and basically calls them "political hacks". My comment is that these guys are easy targets since defending themselves would re-enforce the opinion and since Petraeus was already told to shut up and stay out of politics at his confirmation meeting with congress. As far as I'm concerned, Reid would only be happy with the assessment if Petraeus came back, told them the war was lost and threw himself on his sword (literally or metaphorically).
A real issue that I know for a fact is currently affecting our returning veterans is the lack of mental health professionals and institutions able or willing to provide care to our vets who suffer from acute or chronic PTSD.
Finally, Soldiers' Angels in Kansas City continues to be busy. We will be at Kauffman Stadium Saturday evening for Military Appreciation Night: Royals v. Marlins. If you can't join us, watch us.
Hey! and don't miss our weekly "letters from the front: thank you for your support" A sniper in Iraq takes our Angel pin with him wherever he goes.
-Kat [hope I didn't step on any posts today]
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Mark Steyn and Iain Murray in The Corner today:
Vacant Lott [Mark Steyn]Andrew, I have no serious expectations of Senators these days, but I would like them at the very least to try and sound a little less like the plump complacent emirs of the one-party-state of Incumbistan. Trent Lott fails even that test.
06/15 01:21 PM
Senator Talks Nonsense Shocker [Iain Murray]
Be sure to read Marlo Lewis' terrific fisk of Sen. Reid's utter balderdash on energy policy over on Planet Gore. The amount of doubletalk, stupidity and do-it-yourself economics emanating from Congress on this issue is stupefying.
06/15 01:17 PM
I dunno that term limits are the answer - but I sure would like to give it a try. -the Armorer
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Speaking of Senators... what did Senator Reid say, and to whom? -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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