| Apples and Oranges I'm having a hard time reconciling the stats they give with my own, admittedly limited, experience. My brother-in-law is career navy. He has been all over. Bosnia, Korean DMZ, and now, occasionally, Qatar. He has had Internet access every where he's been. Sometimes it's been the only luxury he's had. The discrepancy may lie in that Iraq is a forward area. We can't expect the military to build a Googleplex in the middle of the f'en desert obviously.
The stat given is computers per 1000 troops but the quote then talks about internet access. Obviously different things. Here is my understanding. Generally the troops provide their own computers for off-time use. Email is free. ISP availability varies depending on where you are. If you are stationed on a large base you will probably have access to free broadband. If you are in a remote location you may only have dialup. In the case of Iraq you may be lucky to even have power. There are a lot of combat troops out there with little more than a cot and a tent. I think it is very misleading to lump all everything together and just call it 1% penetration. |
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| Just a side note...
Maybe they dont want tons of lap tops over there. Sure it would be nice but think of what could go WRONG. It would be disaster if someone wrote some virus/trojan/worm/whatever that triangulated positions via people wireless cards in there laptops. |
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| Ya my cousin was in Iraq and he was pretty much able to email me every day except when they went out on missions for 2-3 days. I think this is a BS story. I've never had trouble contacting by email friends and relatives in Iraq. Also for safety and security purposes I can understand why they must monitor and limit their use. For example I couldnt send attachments or files to my cousins. |
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| said by AzzKicker:Ya my cousin was in Iraq and he was pretty much able to email me every day except when they went out on missions for 2-3 days. I think this is a BS story. .... Thanks for the backup.. that is pretty much what I thought.  |
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| Not BS at all. If the military has a hard time affording body armor for every soldier why is it so hard to believe they can't get every soldier a computer? A good number of enlisted families are on welfare back here in the states you know. And for someone who's career military and most likely an officer there may be a different level of support for officers than there is for enlisted folks. |
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| said by NDPTAL85:If the military has a hard time affording body armor for every soldier why is it so hard to believe they can't get every soldier a computer? A good number of enlisted families are on welfare back here in the states you know. And for someone who's career military and most likely an officer there may be a different level of support for officers than there is for enlisted folks. Again, more BS. They have a hard time affording body armor because that takes more of a beating than a computer sitting back at camp.DUH. Thats a no brainer. Like I said. I know a lot of guys over in Iraq and family members there and have never had a hard time emailing them on a daily basis. Now thats my REAL WORLD experience. I don't need some bs story to tell me. |
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