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...
Time to add a new caveat, because from email it's not clear to some folks (mind you, if you don't read this it won't matter...) Being an open post, people (collectively, the Denizens) other than I post in the H&I. They sign their work (most of the time) - keep that in mind when you want to flame someone in email please - if it doesn't say "The Armorer" or "John" then I didn't write it! And honestly - if you don't like something said or posted... leave a comment, and hash it out (within the context of The Rulez which are clearly posted on the comment form, I would add).
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Well... on the plus side, it's at least a legitimate military target, and I've long wondered, given the noise about terrs coming in from Mexico, if Fort Huachuca wouldn't make a comparatively simple target... possibly, the terrs think so.
For those of you local to the KC Region, if you've been listening to the tiresomely portentous KCTV 5 promos for their Phill Kline hit piece (Kansas politics for the rest of you) which airs tonight, here's a little sneak peek at The Kansas Meadowlark regarding what it might be about... and how they went about it. H/t, Jim C. -the Armorer
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Oh - Kansas and Missouri had some of the most productive lead mines in the country, to the current locals regret, one of the reasons the region was of strategic importance in the Civil War. This weekend I did my bit to enhance the concentration of lead and copper in Leavenworth county by adding a combined 200 rounds worth of .303 Brit, 7.62x54 Russian, 7.62x51, and 30.06 to my local hillside. Just sayin'. At least this will be strippable, and not tunneled mining... -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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