I'm the field support guy in that article.
I lived in Charlottesville VA. The USMC reporterette who wrote that story had sloppy handwriting. The only titusville I know of is in Florida.
The notion that collecting biometrics from bad guys is somehow less satisfactory that just shooting them is pure infantile BS.
Believe me, when bad guys shoot at Marines they usually wind up dead. The ones smart enough to give up need to be asked a few questions about their dead buddies. At the same time we need to nail down their identity. Not their fake name, not where they claim to be from but non-ambiguous information about them.
If we were to just shoot every single detainee our military would have no credibility or honor left.
Should we have more aggressive ROE? Sure.
Should we kill them all and let Allah sort them out? Just the ones bearing arms.
The notion that collecting biometrics from bad guys is somehow less satisfactory that just shooting them is pure infantile BS.
Well said!
Great work. Just like the storied "Skunk Works"
I put the WSJ article along with the Spirit of America donation site in an e mail and sent it to everybody on my email list. What I wrote.
I don't usually send," pass along this e-mail," emails. In fact, I detest them.
I'm making an exception in this case.
Feel free to print out the story and post it at your work or forward it to friends or organizations that may be interested in supporting this work.
This email has a story on equipment that the troops in Iraq don't have, but would be very useful to them. See the test story from the field.
This is an incredible device showing American ingenuity and what we Americans can do when given the opportunity to solve problems for our troops.