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Over at The War on Big Tobacco, Sergeant Tobacco ponders the utility of tilting at windmills as a leadership technique...
Read the rest by clicking here. -the Armorer
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Seen over at Jules Crittenden's place:
a better writer better looking than he is, and has a new book out. /shameless pandering. -the Armorer
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Since it's Friday... from Concrete Bob - 3 Years of Friday Nights At Walter Reed. -the Armorer
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Over at The War on Big Tobacco, Sergeant Tobacco ponders the utility of tilting at windmills as a leadership technique...
I look at my opponent. Sergeant Rocksalt [OPSEC] stares back at me, if not with hate, than with a reasonable determination to choke the life out of me.
The referee stands between us: “No Armbars. No punching. If this guy taps out, you stop.”
“Wait a minute,” I think. “The referee pointed to me when he said that.”
The referee already knows that the outcome of this match is predetermined. It’s not a question of if Sergeant Rocksalt will win, it’s a question of how long before he chokes me out.
Read the rest by clicking here. -the Armorer
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Seen over at Jules Crittenden's place:
Speaking of Jules - his wife'sAs we speak, mild-looking old men are limping through airports all over the United States. Each wears a black Stetson cavalry hat, and each is making his way to, of all places, Boise, Idaho. If their fellow travelers ever knew…
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Since it's Friday... from Concrete Bob - 3 Years of Friday Nights At Walter Reed. -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 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.
