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Mmmm. Just because.
Governor Palin - inSALAH AH DIN, Iraq (February 15, 2008) - U.S. Army Soldiers talk about the M1128 Stryker Mobile Gun System Vehicle capabilities in Salah ah Din province, Iraq, Feb. 12, 2008. The soldiers are from the 2nd Infantry Division and 101st Airborn Division. Photo by Maj. Johnpaul Arnold, U.S. Army.
Soldiers from Company B, 3rd Battalion, 297th Infantry Regiment, pose for a photo with their governor, Gov. Sarah Palin, July 25, 2007. The Alaska government official ended her two-day tour of Kuwait's bases at lunch with her Soldiers at the Camp Virginia Dining Facility. Photo by Spc. Wesley Landrum
And both Governor Palin and Senator McCain have children serving and who have been or will soon, deployed to the sandboxes. Be interesting to see how the chickenhawk meme morphs.
And, Governor Palin will certainly have captured the gunblogger vote:
She's captured the interest of Canada... and lastly, shamelessly swiping this from the Flea, who himself swiped it from Melanie Morgan ( where you can buy Palin for VP stuff) come this great campaign poster... though I'm sure it will be excoriated by the Left, it's kinda refreshing:
Have a good Sunday - we're gonna be doing some shooting around here. And probably a little golfball mortaring -the Armorer
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Brick by Brick, a Weekend Warrior Builds a Medieval Retirement Home ....Maggie
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Madame Governor has certainly inspired the comedians on the 'net!
- Sarah Palin isn’t allowed to wield the gavel at the convention because they’re afraid she’ll use it to kill liberals.
- Sarah Palin once won a competitive eating contest by devouring three live caribou.
- Sarah Palin once carved a perfect likeness of the Mona Lisa in a block of ice using only her teeth.
- Sarah Palin will pry your Klondike bar from your cold dead fingers.
- Sarah Palin pick retroactively makes the theme of #DNC08 “Things To Do In Denver When You’re Dead”
- Sarah Palin doesn’t need a gun to hunt. She has been known to throw a bullet through an adult bull elk.
Get all the facts like those you need, and more, at Sarah Palin Facts. H/t, Wendy, Castle Argghhh LLC's Deputy Assistant Undersecretary for Goat Management and Egg Recovery - the Armorer
**********************************************]]> *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.
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