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The Captain-formerly-known-as-Lieutenant G has gone silent - but he *did* get promoted. His fianceé, City Girl, is keeping the place lit and doing some posting - and she has a post up about Private Hot Wheels and his recent non-combat but still very serious injury. Go, read, act as you see fit.
Heh. Jesse Jackson has the jones for Senator Obama's stones. Gotta hate recording technology and the Internet, eh? Wonder who will throw whom under the bus this time? Don Surber has a nice little rendition (oops, is that legal?) of Mr. Jackson's cover of Crystal Gayle's "Don't it make my brown eyes green?" Man, the stuff you miss when you're herding meth-using simcats which are continually distracted by crack-smoking sim-mice.
Castle Medieval (and earlier) Artillerist Murray has a new website. And T-shirts. And jewelry... -the Armorer
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The Captain-formerly-known-as-Lieutenant G has gone silent - but he *did* get promoted. His fianceé, City Girl, is keeping the place lit and doing some posting - and she has a post up about Private Hot Wheels and his recent non-combat but still very serious injury. Go, read, act as you see fit.
Heh. Jesse Jackson has the jones for Senator Obama's stones. Gotta hate recording technology and the Internet, eh? Wonder who will throw whom under the bus this time? Don Surber has a nice little rendition (oops, is that legal?) of Mr. Jackson's cover of Crystal Gayle's "Don't it make my brown eyes green?" Man, the stuff you miss when you're herding meth-using simcats which are continually distracted by crack-smoking sim-mice.
Castle Medieval (and earlier) Artillerist Murray has a new website. And T-shirts. And jewelry... -the Armorer
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<em>*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 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. Of course, now I have to call them UAS's, because someone got a Legion of Merit for the name change.Anyway, I call the post H&I Fires 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.</em>
