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As a PL and now as an XO, I know that I have found creating my own product as being the best way to go. I would recommend downloading/buying/copying as many as you can and then building what you want with elements from each. No need to reinvent the wheel, but find ways to make a better wheel.
You can use Excel, or the like, to create some excellent smart card type items to carry lots of PAX and equipment information. I built an entire CO task org the other day and then told Excel to print it the size of a 3x5 card. Fits right in with the other index cards I carry throughout the day to capture information.
Ranger Joe's carries some good sensitive item cards that they sell to the studs headed to school. We used them everyday. Again, IMHO, these have plenty of room for improvement as you could customize it to your unit needs once you see their current product as a template.
For tactical quick reference, the 3x5 card holder made by OSOE <http://www.originalsoegear.com/3x5.html> is awesome, IMHO. I wear it right on my vest and it gives me 4 cards worth of information at my finger tips.
Hope some of that is useful.
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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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