they might think about teaching Morris Code again too...
Posted on 07/18/2019 4:22:09 AM PDT by tlozo
Pathetic, just pathetic to have abandoned “manual methods”. Imagine someone needing artillery support in a very bad way and their devices don’t work, or worse yet, have been hacked so fire is directed onto our own troops.
Maybe the navy best learn what a compass, sextant and navigation maps are good for too.
Great idea,glad to see it back.
Kind of like abandoning simple math as the calculator does it easier.
Aye, sir. The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain. [hands McCoy a fistful of computer chips] Here, Doctor, souvenirs from one surgeon to another. I took them out of her main transwarp computer drive.
Montgomery Scott Star Trek 3
Now maybe Walmart and other retailers need to leach cashiers how to count change the old fashioned way.
This reads as if the US Army had units in Ukraine fighting their dirty war for them.
... did we?
I recall reading where the KGB oh, I think that’s what they still call themselves, I have gone to manual typewriters at their headquarters to increase security of administrative functions.
I wonder if the US military or the US Uniformed Services have maintained their proficiencies in MF and HF Communications, Morse code (CW) is gone by the wayside but plenty of Old Timers l still know how to use it, CW might not be fast and it might not be efficient but when all else fails it is the mode that is going to keep Communications intact. I wonder if CW is going to make a comeback as well?
I wonder if the Navy and the Coast Guard still know how to navigate with a sextant? I don’t think they teach it anymore in fact, I think they might have all gone to electronic charting.
they might think about teaching Morris Code again too...
Based on my contract work with the Air Force, it won't be long before in order to fire a weapon you'll have to insert your CAC card and log on to the device, hoping all the while that the all-eggs-in-one-basket network is still available, or that your card hasn't been locked, requiring a trip to the MTF to get it unlocked. Of course I'm being sarcastic ... but only a little.
One big benefit of being proficient in working without the computer, is being able to say “Hey, wait a minute” when the computer starts giving you bad answers.
There WILL come a day when we discover that foreign made components (or US made components designed by people not loyal to us) have a “remote trigger glitch”. As in the pilot episode of Battlestar Galactica.
Maybe they are just paying attention to what the Russians were doing in the Ukraine.
No school like the old school.
I just wonder without GPS how they will position the battery? Our exercises were kind of phony since the survey crew went out and found the position and gave us precise grid numbers, but I just don’t see it happening under fire.
“They are also better prepared when electronic warfare takes the AFATADS system offline, he said”
Notice he said “when”, not “if”.
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The navy should take heed and remove the plugs from the 16” guns on those old battleships and get them seaworthy again. You never know when dumb technology is going to be needed again.
Most customers do not fool around with counting money and the nuisance of change
“If you don’t understand the chart, you won’t actually understand what the automated system is doing for you.”
Very few people understand the basics anymore. But they have a number
Maybe the surprising thing is the artillery still has a manual option.
One big benefit of being proficient in working without the computer, is being able to say “Hey, wait a minute” when the computer starts giving you bad answers.
GPS are useful but I will not risk my life on them.
Do infantry and armor leaders carry printed maps these days? Does the DOD even print maps anymore?
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