When in a firefight DON"T DO THIS

[yocan]

Wow he's got to feel horrible.YouTube - Soldier Mistakenly Calls Home....During a Fight!

So please everyone take care of your parents mental health and don't follow in his foot steps (beyond surviving a fight where you melt a barrel) The story was a video of his mom talking on cnn as well, couldn't figure out how to make a link (it was on the huge page of all the videos)

[Radio Relay]

When I heard that last week, I was amazed that these kids actually have cell phones that work in Afghanistan, and even more amazing, they are carrying them while on patrols.

[dincote]

Whats amazing about that???

I used to carry 2 cellphones with different providers.
you ask why grasshopper?

batteries last longer, super duper light weight(this is very important), and it works, store your buddy's phone #, you know the one back at base with artillery support, or at the TOC, for fire in the sky support, or to the medic that owes you one at the hospital, bottom line is that is another form of commo, that is not regulated by the service, and in most cases it works just fine.

com-sec issues are a different deal.

Jose

[ParagonUSMC]

That brings back memories...for those of you familiar with military radio nets, we used to refer to our cell phones as "Battalion Tac 3"

[Radio Relay]

dincote said: "Whats amazing about that???"

Sorry, I'm an old fart.

Being able to communicate with anything in combat other than a VHF radio (like a PRC-77 ) being humped on the back of a radio operator, just seems strange. Being able to phone home during a firefight is mega strange... to my senile brain, anyway.

Actually, the radios in my avatar (TRC-97's, set up at LZ Stud, in Vietnam) carried a lot of the traffic that "com nets" (and evidently, cell phones) carry today. Local transponders dropped randomly, and manned radio relay sites in the jungle, or on hills, would pick up radio traffic from the Grunt patrols on the ground, and then that would get routed over the microwave links back to the various command and support units.

Anywho... Yeah, I know the battlefield is way different today, than it was forty years ago.... never mind...

[yocan]

Actually most cell phone providers have one model made for Iraq. Its usually quarter inch of insulating shock obsorbing rubber, face of some type that sand won't scratch, sand proof (so they claim) water proof to 100 feet and so on. Limited features, like most of them don't have cameras and such due to that being another orifice that has to be protected. Those phones are very pricey, few can afford them.

[dincote]

Radio relay my friend, you are not an old fart, I used a prick 77 and sent troops to get me batteries for a prick E-7 thats an oldie but a good one, now the newbies dont know what that is but there still a box of grid squares out there that needs finding ROTFLMAO.

The batterfield is the same, ugly as always, the technology has change, but we soldiers still fight and die the same way.

I never heard them been called a Tac3, after all it is against regulations to carry non issue items such a cell phone or even worst deadly goods, but some how they always find their way in my little bag of goodies and some how is exactly what the doctor order.

For all Intents I always follow regs. the regs. have a tendencie to "curve" themselfs to my way of thinking, and if somehow something were to be found among my goodies, I founded on the ground and I was just about to turn it in, as I always do, so far, so good, and my soldiers know we follow the regs. just like the BG do.

yocan that is hillarious water proof to 100 meters, in the sand lot, sorry I think that is tooooo funny

Jose

[Radio Relay]

dincote said "For all Intents I always follow regs. the regs. have a tendencie to "curve" themselfs to my way of thinking, and if somehow something were to be found among my goodies, I founded on the ground and I was just about to turn it in, as I always do, so far, so good, and my soldiers know we follow the regs. just like the BG do".

The more things change, the more they stay the same, Bro.

[dincote]

Amem to that

Jose

[Paparock]

Don't stand there trying to figure out what that strange sound is as bullets snap past your head when a sniper is shooting at you from so far away you can't hear the rifle reports until your Platoon Sergeant tackles you. Especially when you are a 2Lt. as it is first embarrassing and second the platoon really wonders about you when they see you kissing the Platoon Sergeant. LOL Then all hell broke loose as the whole tree line opened up on us.