Oh, no harm done Phil...
I was just stating that I'm not on one of those levels in the military system that get's to play with the really nice tech toys.
I work with the line units (currently a signal officer in a national guard battalion, and I KNOW THAT WE'RE NOTHING BUT BIG TARGETS PUTTING OUT AN EM SIGNATURE THAT ANY RADAR GUIDED MISSILE CAN FIND.)
With that in mind, why bother getting us really good equipment when the chances of it getting zapped by the enemy are so high?
Nevertheless, during one exercise, I brought my 540C out to the field (not a good idea since I've had the LCD screen on a Powerbook 170 crushed during a later exercise when a careless troop dropped a dubblebag on top of my briefcase.) and was able track personnel, weapons, vehicles, fuel, and food resources across over a dozen sites... I also had the ability to put together nice presentations at our command and staff meetings. These things knocked the socks off the big wigs since I was doing things with my laptop that a whole section armed with 386 PCs and a dozen personnel could not do in a timely and accurate manner.
We're supposed to be the computer-tech arm of the army, but we can't even get simple word processing and spreadsheet functions accomplished efficiently. |
