Re: [Az-Geocaching] GPS in the Army

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joking

I ain't leaving the state with my 315

serious

IT isn't that one is better; just different

I bought Magellan Trailblazer XL due to the fact that when Desert Storm was going on a CNN News Report showed a army guy with a MAGELLAN, then again in Bosnia, marking minefields. Magellan makes those for the military and since this game is based on The DoD GPS system why not go with 'em......


tongue in cheek

yeah cheap off the shelf units, Garmins are dime a dozen like yellow jeeps...

serious

When I was at Wide World of Maps buying AZ TOPOQuads 3D version 2 it works great!!!

I noticed that Maptech topo is PALM PC download compatible

humans are creatures of habit




----- Original Message -----
From: Team Tierra Buena
To: az-geocaching@listserv.azgeocaching.com
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 6:17 AM
Subject: [Az-Geocaching] GPS in the Army


In an insomniac bout last night, I surfed into the Discovery Channel in the middle of a program about US armed forces in Afghanistan. In one segment they were showing how combat controllers (I think that was what they were called, perhaps it was "forward controllers") perform their duties.

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.

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.

Steve
Team Tierra Buena