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From Kent’s Imperative comes a bit about PTSD and the role society seems to play in the phenomenon.
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I always, or almost always, support this stuff. People have no idea how much basic science gets done because of places like DARPA and Navy Labs chasing after ‘wide eyed’ concepts. The femto-second laser is one thing I can think of off the top of my head which came out of a similar group, and has had major impacts on physical chemistry. It sounds stupid and wild eyed crap, but only when you’ve already made your mind half up on the issue.
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From MNF-I:

Start of 'Arrowhead Ripper' highlights Iraq operations

Blackhawk troops use more than body armor to keep each other safe

Artillery battalion trades steel rain for hearts and minds

Iraqi government cited after mosque attack

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Denizen Trias shows the once you've been bitten, the blogbug is hard to expunge. He logs on, he types, he blogs again!

CAPT H wants to shill his regiment, the Strathconas. Good enough - Canadians at War and, sometimes, play, too.

Need a "Laugh at the expense of others" kind of moment? AFSis provides a self-inflicted wound of that stripe. Trust me - you want to know... Where's Larry?

On the surface of it - this looks like a slavish devotion to Rules by jot and tittle, with no judgement as to the situation applied. H/t, Toluca Nole. [Link fixed, t'anks, Brab!]

CAPT H sends us to Oleg Volk (quirky photographer who likes things gun-ish) for a little size comparison. Let your inner Freud run wild.

Bloodspite's partner-in-crime, kdwill, posts from the frontlines of the immigration debate. -the Armorer

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The Man With The Golden Gun... is a woman. And Australian. Really. Golden Gun. Honest. Courtesy the Screaming Eagles. H/t, Mike L. -the Armorer

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RitaMatic sighting!
-bad cat robot

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".