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Your Sunday Funny... Drill Instructor (TI/DS/RDC) stories. Here's a sample to whet your appetite:
- FbLThere was kid in my plt that had trouble pronouncing "R". One day the heavy came in and yelled for him. When the recruit replied "Hea Sa"("hear sir" for the rest of you), the heavy replied with "Did you just call me an a**hole?" The senior and the kill hat had to run into the office to keep from laughing in front of the platoon.
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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 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.
*snarl*
"Just whaddyoo mean by calling me an Air A$$hole, Lootenant?!?"
They're so cute when they're flustered...
And no, I'm not tellin' the stupid stuff my Drills did to me.