H&I Fires* 06 Sep 2007
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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Hmmm... Who knew that FLOSSING your cat could be so effective. With apologies to Barnacle, S'Mudge, and assorted Scrupl's everywhere - BOQ
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This place can really hop when those two slugs Bill 'n Dusty can remember their logins, donnit? -the Armorer
[Right. Ever count the number of times I logged in and then vanished via power outa
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Hey, Bill - since you're kinda out that way - mebbe you could get a contract to help these guys with their maintenance issues. Carborundum could assist, surely? -the Armorer
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As Dusty pointed out to me today... Jonah still reads my email. I got juice! -the Armorer
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Uh-oh - the Canadian Army is a bunch of right-wing looney toons! How long before Ottawa tries to reshape the force for... balance? Snerk! I knew there was a reason I liked working with them, even if they could get a little preachy about landmines. H/t, Some Serving Canadian Officer... -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"
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