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In today's From the Front: (Click on link to read stories highlighted below)
The Kitchen Dispatch: Homecoming
Lindy Kyzer @ Army Live: A Message to MilBloggers
Helmand Blog - Afghanistan: Glimmers of hope in Helmand
In Iraq Now (at 56): Who Fights This War? Warriors Reunited from 2004
The Quatto Zone: Smoke 'Em If You've Got 'Em (Bad Guys, That Is)
Plan to Move Guantánamo Detainees Faces New Delay
President Signs 2010 Defense Budget Into Law
Bin Laden’s Family Found Hiding In Iran
Third-generation Paratrooper Deploys
Stryker troops doing detective work
Abbreviating Christmas in Iraq
Europe’s Revolving Door in Afghanistan
Germany Intensifies Mission in Afghanistan
Pakistan Taliban say fighters going to Afghanistan
READ MORE...
- David M
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In today's From the Front: (Click on link to read stories highlighted below)
The Kitchen Dispatch: Homecoming
Lindy Kyzer @ Army Live: A Message to MilBloggers
Helmand Blog - Afghanistan: Glimmers of hope in Helmand
In Iraq Now (at 56): Who Fights This War? Warriors Reunited from 2004
The Quatto Zone: Smoke 'Em If You've Got 'Em (Bad Guys, That Is)
Plan to Move Guantánamo Detainees Faces New Delay
President Signs 2010 Defense Budget Into Law
Bin Laden’s Family Found Hiding In Iran
Third-generation Paratrooper Deploys
Stryker troops doing detective work
Abbreviating Christmas in Iraq
Europe’s Revolving Door in Afghanistan
Germany Intensifies Mission in Afghanistan
Pakistan Taliban say fighters going to Afghanistan
READ MORE...
- David M
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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.
