Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys..

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Today the Armorer and SWWBO will head down to the Gathering of Eagles/ANSWER Die-In to take part in our first demonstration/counterdemonstration, since out in the great flyover such things aren't nearly as much fun.

Reference yesterday's excitement, I got this email from a buddy:

Well done, my friend. While I have met a few serving and/or ex-Presidents in my day, I have never had to occasion to chat with one. I have one question, given you wont for pastime proclivities, and public knowledge of same – did you get a full body cavity search?

My response:

No, apparently my entry in the Secret Service Hitchhiker's Guide to the Blogosphere said, "Mostly Harmless".

Off to get coffee and protest the protestors! And if we're really good today, we might get to do dinner with the Blog Princess! -the Armorer

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Now is the time at Castle Argghhh! when we dance: In Memoriam. 57 years ago today, Operation Chromite - the invasion of Inchon. Take that, Secretary Johnson! - the Armorer.

[FbL the HTML Elf (try saying THAT 5 times fast) sez: I cleaned up a couple HTML problems above, but it's impossible to tell if the "corrected" last link is what the Armorer actually intended.]

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Guiliani calls out Hillary Clinton on the subject of support for the military and the Iraq war... using her own words.

Talking with Heroes has several updates, including a look at "Troop-welcoming" events in Dallas - FbL

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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"