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- From: amirza@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Anmar Caves)
- Subject: Re: GPS, PC or non-PC?
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- References: <1992Dec18.222018.700@guinness.idbsu.edu> <1992Dec18.233552.11214@ra.msstate.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:01:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec18.233552.11214@ra.msstate.edu> dnewcomb@whale.st.usm.edu (Donald R. Newcomb) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec18.222018.700@guinness.idbsu.edu> jahn@guinness.idbsu.edu writes:
- >>Until this article it had never clearly occured to me how inter-
- >>related the use of GPS for backcountry orienting and military
- >>use for counterinsurgency operations were ... it's the same stuff,
- >>except that the military applications have access to more refined
- >>locating abilities.
- >
- >Can you name a single navigation system that was not developed by
- >the military for military purposes or which does not have profound
- >military applications? Loran? Omega? Transit? GPS? Celestial? Deca
- >is arguable. What about other things you use in the backcountry?
- >Backpacks? Gore Tex? Freeze-dried food? How much are you ready to
- >give up to assuage your politically correct conscience?
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- Much as I hate to agree with the above, it's true, most of the fun
- toys we carry into the woods are a direct result the military.
- When I was taking my inservice on GPS, the guy who was teaching
- stressed the fact that GPS was primarily a military toy.
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