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Yesterday found the Armorer standing at the rear of an 18-wheeler, parked in the center turn lane of one of Leavenworth's major streets, schlepping fencing panels one at a time, dancing and weaving to avoid being a windshield bug, as we unladed SWWBO's 60ft round pen. The truck couldn't get out to the new Castle, as there is no place out there to turn an 18 wheeler around.
So I get to handle the danged thing multiple times. Unload from the big truck, now, load onto the little truck (in two lifts), unload from the truck into the cradle... and one more time to wherever SWWBO decides the round pen is gonna be. Feh. I may have to shoot something today, just on GP.
Anyway, while I'm doing that and SWWBO is getting (koff, koff) her massage... Boquisucio submits this picture as needing some captioning.
-the Armorer
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As seen elsewhere, from the New Anatolian, US lays down the law with the Kurds regarding the PKK(a.k.a. the trouble makers who are souring Turkish-US-Kurdish relations). This is mostly a good thing.
The United States has also reportedly informed the Iraqi Kurds that it cannot prevent a Turkish military incursion into northern Iraq, Kurdish sources said.
I wonder if that’s being relayed accurately by either the reporter or the Kurdish source. Is it that we cannot or is it that we will not? Last time I checked the AF and USN aviation was still around and aviation interdiction of armored columns moving in restrictive terrain in the Balkans worked wonders(or so the story goes). There is a Grand Canyon of difference between can’t and won’t.
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A good rebuttal to the ‘Books not Bombs’ crowd---data and actual facts, don’t you just love data and facts in your rebuttals?---comes from Sir Lex.
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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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