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Thank you gentlemen for all the fantastic tongue-in-cheek responses.
Most of the apps I am thinking of have more of a training value than they do a direct combat value. Obviously the smart card and such would be useful on the battlefield assuming your battery wasn't dead, but items like the FM's or Battle Drill information (to me anyways) have a lot of practical application for heading to a range without having to carry all the paper copies with you. It simply creates an immediate reference. Plus they would be searchable and such so you could find a certain topic more easily.
You guys didn't carry phones in Ranger? I used mine throughout Darby to order pizza to our planning bay...I guess things have changed...
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For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the [terrorists] -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business.
-D. W. Brogan, The American Character
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