Re: [Az-Geocaching] GPS in the Army

Close enough for hand grenades and horseshoes.... and apparently smart
bombs.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Cluff" <brian@snaptek.com>
To: <listserv@azgeocaching.com>
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 :)
>
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