Open post for those with something to share, updated through the day. New, complete posts come in below this one. Note: If trackbacking, please acknowledge this post in your post. That's only polite.
You're advertising here, we should get an ad at your place...
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From MNF-I:
- Village residents lead troops to caches
- 'Wolverines' ready for anything on mission for Iraqi children
- Ironhorse Brigade, City of Austin team up
And a little jihadi-hunting to go with it.
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Over at Confederate Yankee, Bob Owens keeps tossing softballs to the AP, which they flub.
I love this comment (which is commenter Michael's reduction-to-essentials of the AP response to Bob).
We have nothing further beyond yesterday's response and please stop pointing out our lies and evasions, it makes us upset. Furthermore, please stop contradicting our general storyline with facts, that also makes us upset.
-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".
