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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This is for Unka Chief SB Dolla Bill since he’s likely tired of thongs and needs more variety in his lingerie while in Iraq diet. And to think I initially found that story at PLA Daily, though there was no picture. Soldiers. Predictable the world over.
(gollum slinks into his corner in the garderobe to get over his case of the shakes from hunting that one down. He’s such an innocent child. Then it’s time to play some Romance of the Three Kingdoms inspired videogames before RBBH knocks his peabrain onto the floor with the Skillet of Doom with a resounding thwock for looking up lingerie clad womynz.)
--ry
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When you're a muj, some days are diamonds, some days, you get raisins. At least I hope that interpretation is the correct one.

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How I spent my week.

I spent the week at Fort Bliss, Texas, stuck in a room with a bunch of wireheads and analysts.

Before we could get to the subject of how many angels could dance on the head of this pin, we had first to determine what the hardness of the wire the pin was made from was, whether or not it had been annealed properly, what the current ambient temp was (did we need multiple use cases on that issue?) what the ratio of pinhead diameter to pin shaft diameter was, how was pin mounted (flexing issues!) and whether or not the steel from which the pin was made came from re-cycled steel, or virgin steel - after first checking with the two womyn present to make sure that they understood we meant the word virgin in a non-patriarchally dominating way - because as we all know, recycled steel has stray molecules of copper and aluminun in it. Then we started in on what constituted a "standard" angel in terms of molecular density and dancing ability... and don't get me started about the discussion of should we have multiple use cases for ballroom dancing, break dancing, simple in-place gyration dancing, square dancing, reels, disco, etc. And we bickered about should we assume all angels dance equally well, or did we need to account for the number of Armorer-style dancers who simply shuffle from one foot to the other and look miserable, vice the Travolta-style... But we had a great dinner at a Mexican place just this side of the border.

And then after I wrote it all up, we changed everything. -the Armorer

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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 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 that particular topic. Another term of art that might be appropriate is "Free Fire Zone".