U.S. Army Spc. Jeremy A. Pouliot of Saint Michael, Minn., psychological operations, answers Jalalabad high school students’ questions ranging from requirements to join the military to security in Afghanistan. The event was held at Forward Operating Base Fenty in eastern Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province at 2 p.m. Oct. 7. The Skype conference is part of the State Department’s Global Connection and Exchange program. Dvids
Technology Advances For Soldiers A Double-Edged Sword On Battlefield -- Stars and Stripes/The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Robert Brooke heard bullets humming past his head.
Moments later, when his first firefight in Iraq ended and his men were accounted for, he pulled out a cellphone and called his father — who was sitting thousands of miles away in an Applebee's restaurant.
“He said, ‘We got them. ... It was really fun,' ” recalled Roger Brooke of Swissvale. “I'm in Applebee's, and he's standing on top of a Humvee behind a 50-caliber gun. What was interesting for me was, I was speaking in a very upbeat voice, but my wife said the color just drained from my face. I was sitting there, completely ashen.”
Roger Brooke, 60, a native of South Africa who served in the military there as a paratrooper in the 1970s, could not have called his father seconds after a gunfight to provide details.
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My Comment: One can only expect even more advances in communications and technology .... advances that would probably make the past few years archaic in comparison.
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