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From CAPT H, a link to a video of the world's finest military in action, over at Theo Spark, a pretty fine blog.
That prompted me to respond: "Hmmm. Mebbe we *aren't* the best military in the world... "
To which CAPT H responded:
At Royal Roads, we had an annual drill competition: march on, execute drill movements at the halt, march past in column and column of route. When the troops move off to began their first march past, the observers would quickly scanned their last position for bayonets; the FN bayonet had a stiff catch and often one would hear an unwanted clatter when executing "Shoulder Arms". In this instance, the concerned Squadron Commander checked and said: "That's good, no bayonets dropped." The cadet standing near-by replied: "Sir, they forgot to fix bayonets."And then there was the dropped .50cal barrel on a parade in Gagetown ...
Which in turn prompted this response from me:
Well, I remember a young, nameless Second Lieutenant who demonstrated an M90 chronograph to MG Faith, then GOC 1st Armored Division. He opened with "Sir, this device is virtually soldier-proof." And promptly then demonstrated it wasn't Lieutenant-proof.
CAPT H had to have the last word, and it's the "quotation of the rotation" for those who understand that reference:
"Virtually" is a very handy word.
Indeed. -the Armorer
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CAPT H also sent this along - an old-media exec (who has a clue) pointing out the difference between MSM readers and blog readers - and why those differences exist. And makes the point that making your MSM blog just like your main product - is mostly pointless. I don't think the Newsosaur is going to get quite the bounce he got from Small Dead Animals... but hey, go spin his meter! -the Armorer
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To close out my efforts this morning - like Chuck Simmins... I hope he gets his bible back, too. -the Armorer
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Featured YouTube Smackdown video for August 10:
Islamic State of Iraq IED on RG31 - MujahideenMedia
See also, today's Jihad Videos: Open Letter to YouTube concerning our first month's results. Thanks. - Rickbert
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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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