07-24-2003, 09:30 PM
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The Wireless Marine
It's good to see that, unlike air marshals, someone's finding their handhelds useful. 
"To get their far-from-common job done, the Marines need to do some rather mundane things, like tracking supplies and equipment. Every tank, munition, first-aid kit, and food ration must be accounted for at all times and often in the heat of battle. To do this, the Marines rely on some highly mobile wireless technology. This technology has already been field-tested in Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf, helping to ensure that troops always have what they need. The Marines are the most mobile of the armed forces. Some units stay at sea for months on end; others can mobilize quickly from bases in the U.S. and overseas. Either way, Marines travel with all the gear they need for combat. "When a unit deploys, it takes everything it needs for 60 days," says Captain Gary Clement, a project officer at the Marine Corps Systems Command in Quantico, Virginia."
It appears they're using Symbol handhelds that once ran DOS, then Windows CE, and now Pocket PC. Presumably, these are the rugged, robust kind, unlike our end-user devices which need soft resets more frequently. 
(Obligatory warning: let's avoid the political aspects of this discussion...)
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07-24-2003, 09:42 PM
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Political aspects? Whatever could you mean?
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07-24-2003, 09:46 PM
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5000+ Posts? I Should OWN This Site!
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Originally Posted by Kaber
Political aspects? Whatever could you mean?
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:twak: :nonono:
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07-25-2003, 02:11 AM
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2000 Posts And This is All I Get?
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Actually it is kind of wonderful to see that they are no longer using paper notebook, right ?
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07-25-2003, 05:18 AM
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5000+ Posts? I Should OWN This Site!
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Originally Posted by Maximus
Actually it is kind of wonderful to see that they are no longer using paper notebook, right ?
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Paper? What's that?
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07-25-2003, 09:25 PM
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I remember reading ages ago that one of the branches of the armed forces (I think the Marines) did a study to see who had the best logistics system so that they could "adopt" it, and Walmart won out. They should do another study to see who has the best integration of wireless etc in supporting their logistics (prob Walmart again...) and adopt those procedures as well. Why re-invent the wheel when someone with lots of money at stake has already built a really good one. Especially, if their willing to let the gov't copy the system for free in exchange for braggin rights and enhanced national security.
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07-29-2003, 02:20 AM
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The discussion on sprinklers and negative effects thereof has been moved to here.
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--janak
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