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From MNF-I:
- Surge progress may lead to troop reductions in northern Iraq, general says.
- Anbar leaders celebrate awakening
- Armor, infantry join forces to treat patients
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A bleg - regarding a "military craigslist":
I came across your blog through a Marine Friend, Mitch “Taco” Bell who runs a blog called Sandgram.blogspot.com. Mitch and I deployed to Iraq together in 05/06.My name is Joe Harrison. Another retired Marine and I just launched a website and have a request for your support. Anything you can do to help us get the word out to, Soldiers and all the Armed Forces would be greatly appreciated.
Our website is Military Uniform Exchange. The link is militaryuniformexchange.com The site is an online worldwide combination of all base newspaper classified ads and thrift shops. It is kind of like craigslist, but just for the US military. It is place where Soldiers, Marines and all Military members can link up.help each other and save money.
As the website covers all services it allows us to cover costs and most importantly to keep all the basic services for posting uniforms free. (Note there is a base fee for listing vintage uniforms. This was done to help cover costs).
Feel free to check it out and report back - especially if you use it. -the Armorer
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Denizen 1SG Keith is entered in the New York Institute of Photography photo contest.
Go take a look at 1SG Keith's efforts - photos he took while deployed to Afghanistan. If you like 'em, vote for 'em, and let's see if we can't get him into the finals for at least one category!
His three pics are Here, here, and here.
Go. Look. Vote if you like 'em. H/t, Fuzzybear Lioness for the reminder. -the Armorer
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Oh, and speaking of Q-Ships, (yeah, we did, some weeks ago) the Navy's Finest are at it again... -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".
