Close enough for hand grenades and horseshoes.... and apparently smart bombs. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Cluff" To: Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 9:20 AM Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] GPS in the Army > Team Tierra Buena wrote: > > > It is their job to provide target coordinates to air strikes. They do > > this by sighting on a target and projecting a waypoint from where > > they are to the target, which waypoint they then report to > > the bombers. They showed a picture of a bazillion-dollar mil-spec GPS. > > Then the narrator stated that the soldiers prefer to use consumer > > models as they are far lighter and consume batteries much more slowly, > > while the film showed a soldier using a clearly-labeled Garmin Vista > > to do the waypoint projection. > > Doing that, I can't imagine where you would need the accuracy.......... > Unless you were trying to blow up a man hole cover, but then you would > have to actually stand on it to make sure you got it down to that last inch. > I would imagine that with most bombing missions that the cooridinates > are mostly just estimates and then the bomber types visually bomb the > right thing when they get there.... or the painted thing. > > > I'm not posting this to add ammo to the Garmin-Maggie skirmish here. I > > just thought it was cool to be watching it and see them using a piece > > of gear I've got in my backpack. > > I think that was just purely people poking fun at us OS war types :) > > ____________________________________________________________ > Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com > To edit your setting, subscribe or unsubscribe visit: > http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching > > Arizona's Geocaching Resource > http://www.azgeocaching.com