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From MNF-I:
- IA Soldiers bring supplies to Ramadi
- IED ring broken by Operation Bastogne
- Paratroopers find weapons cache
- EOD blow up insurgent's plans.
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Robert Heinlein would be 100 today. You've got to be subscriber to read this piece - but the paras that non-subscribers can read as a tease are worth the visit. On the bounce, trooper!
Interesting reading, this, on David Halberstam. -the Armorer
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Too funny. From CAPT H, via Peeve Farm - "I want an I-Phone!" Hang around for the following vid, too.
Also from CAPT H, via Denny the Grouchy Old Cripple... I think the Castle Tool Room needs one of these. -the Armorer
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Just in time when all of you have well forgotten me, I link this CONFUSING little tid-bit. Mebbe The Denizennes can help this hapless chromosomed challenged Rican. - BOQ
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U.K. Marks Second Anniversary of July 7 London Terrorist Bombs
July 7 (Bloomberg) -- The U.K. commemorated today the second anniversary of the July 7, 2005, terrorist attacks that killed 52 people on London's transport network.
.......Maggie
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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".