[Az-Geocaching] GPS in the Army

[Brian Cluff]

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 :)