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Over at The Nose on Your Face: Bush Takes Time Out From Stealing Oil, Killing Arab Babies To Wreak Havoc At Home

Bob Owens, at Confederate Yankee:

I'm pretty sure this is an exclusive.

Col. Steve Boylan, PAO to General David Petraeus, has made a statement regarding claims made by U.S. Army PV 2 Beauchamp/The New Republic.

The military investigation not only finds the claims impossible to corroborate, they have declared them false.

-The Armorer

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Ledger's comment on a previous post deserves to see the light of day (hey, I *am* an artilleryman, after all).

I see the Excalibur is being put to good use.

[MNF release]:

BAGHDAD ? The top target for al Qaeda in Iraq south of Baghdad was killed July 14 in Arab Jabour by precision-guided munitions, the Excalibur.

Shortly after 12 p.m., 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, received a call that Abu Jurah and 14 anti-Iraqi forces were meeting at a house in Arab Jabour. At approximately 1:12 p.m., the house was positively identified allowing 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery Regiment to fire two Excalibur rounds destroying the meeting house...

See: Precision-guided munitions kills top al Qaeda leader: Multi-National Division Center PAO

Ledger - via the Armorer

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My old high school chum Kevin sent this along:

David Bushnell lives!

Though, from the looks of their 'sub', these guys probably wouldn't.... (click here for story)

It does bear a startling resemblance to Bushnell's Turtle, and I'm curious as to how they set it up.

And, like me, I'm sure the local authorities are quite curious as to why they built this 'sub'.

And if there were provisions for a screw or spar torpedo.....

Tinfoil hat theory, this is a copy of the Islamist sub that blew up the bridge spars in Minneapolis....

Still, if it's all innocent... neato!

And, probably... blub, blub, blub, ala the ill-fated CSS Hunley.

I immediately checked to see where Bad Cat Robot was - I know she's *really* into private submersibles... turns out she has an alibi:

heh. Not only would I do a MUCH better job of fabrication and testing, *my* submarine would absolutely, definitely have Threatening Devices. Mad Scientist Union rules.

-the Armorer

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362d PSYOP CO Annual BBQ/Warrior Citizen Awards

The 362d PSYOP CO Annual BBQ/Warrior Citizen Awards will be taking place this Sunday

The BBQ/Picnic/Awards is August 5th @ 12:00PM at Veterans Park in Fayetteville, Arkansas

There will be food for everyone.

Come on out, make a Family Readiness Support Group donation and show your support of the troops no matter your political faction.

-BloodSpite

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Featured Operation YouTube Smackdown Aug 4, 2007:
Mujahideen IED a Armored Vehicle. - SwordofBaghdad

Sorry it's late but I had trouble logging onto about half the internet earlier. - Rickbert

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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"