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Well, they say the early bird gets the worm, but so does the bird that stays up until the sun rises (common name "night owl"). Just working on a few things as we continue to support our troops every way we can.

Two days ago I posted about Sen. Reid's inability to support our troops and the 1200 Marines submitted to Soldiers' Angels looking for support. By Thursday afternoon, that number had risen to 3000. Thanks to the support of this blog and many others like it, we are working on getting that support. But, we still have a long way to go, so we continue to ask for your support and to spread the word as far and wide as you can.

In the meantime, I note the difference between Me and Sen. Reid. I keep looking for his alleged support, but I haven't found it yet. Sen. Reid is all talk and no show.

But, we did have a genuine T.I.N.S. moment. At our Friday Send Off the KS Army National Guard for their Democrat Approved mission to quail genocide and nation building in newly independent European countries, we were invited in to the auditorium for the ceremony. After handing over a "We Support Our Troops" flag signed from our volunteers, the commander thanked us for our continuing support of our troops, "no matter what the mission". Then everyone in the auditorium, including two star generals and other officers/NCOs on the podium, gave us a standing ovation. Made us very proud to have given that support.

Got it all on video: Send off 35ID

Eat that, Sen. Reid! Probably a good thing he didn't show up. He would have pouted.

Supporting our troops is probably the coolest thing you'll ever do (maybe even kewler than jumping out of planes, crashing helicopters and firing very large artillery; but I'll leave that up to the blog owner and pals to verify). Join us at Soldiers' Angels and show your pride by adopting a Marine!

-Kat(Per previous disclaimer, all views of Congressional Democrats and Sen. Reid in particular are my own and do not represent nor should reflect upon Soldiers' Angels or the Patriot Guard, both non-partisan, non-profit organizations whose sole mission is to support our troops)

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Send over 7.62mm, we'll send back a Hellfire.

-the Armorer

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Sitting on my keester in Memphis, pulling the airline pilot’s version of alert (it’s called “reserve”) and cruising the blogosphere.

Lots of interesting stuff but one of the most refreshing was this little clip that has bounced around the YouTube universe. In short, Infantry to defeatists all across this great nation:
“Bite me.”
The muffled bang off in the distance was Charlie Rangel’s head exploding. Heh.

Then there’s this from Grim at Blackfive. Another muffled bang detected, this time William Arkin’s alimentary terminus slamming shut in mortal fear of another uppity military guy speaking his mind. Wishful thinking, but what the heck.

I can barely watch the news any more and wonder to what depths the Dems will go to undermine the Executive’s war effort. The full-court press to destroy any popular support for the war on Islamofascism—you know, the guys how killed more American (non-combatants no less) and on American soil to boot than was experienced at Pearl Harbor—is a sight to behold.

Petraeus could bring bin Laden’s head mounted on a spike, held up by the skulls of children murdered by al Qaeda, into the Senate chamber and it still wouldn’t make a dent in Harry Reid’s worldview. Barbara Boxer would probably excoriate him for traumatizing “the children” watching from the gallery on their summer field trip. God knows what Andrew Sullivan’s reaction would be.

Anyway, for what it’s worth, had our previous wars been “examined” and “critiqued” as closely and as inaccurately as this one has, the world would be a much different place today. When the sitting majority in your national legislature isn’t confident enough in, or proud enough of the society it represents, fighting a war (costly in blood and treasure, difficult and best executed by adults) becomes problematic. Then there’re the consequences those we leave behind will face when we bug out. The embarrassment I feel is acute. I am ashamed of these people.

And just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse, this. Maybe nothing will come of this, but if another “flying Imam” incident occurs and the poor sap who waves the BS flag before the airplane pushes back is successfully sued by the bad guys, we got issues. Boy, have we got issues.

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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"