You may notice a second image in my sig (something I never do). Well, I thought it would be nice to pay a little tribute to Capt. Christopher Seifert, the brave soldier who died in that cowardly grenade attack in the 101st Airborne camp.
"Shock & Awe" is what the U.S. military nicknamed the initial tenderizing of Baghdad with precision bombing.
The idea is to scare the enemy to death. By pulverizing Baghdad with hundreds of bombs, the hope was to make the Iraqis shit their collective pants (or robes...whatever those asshats wear).
Anyway, this should be in the War on Terror forum, so I'll stop...