Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 17, 2012
Transcript:
Roland: "About to request sitrep." What's going on, soldier? Soldier: Lead element just made contact. Roland: "Per soldier: we're taking fire." Where are we? Soldier: Can't tell you, sir. Opsec. Roland: "Soldier: coordinates r. hush hush." Soldier: Sir, may I ask you what you're doing. Roland: "Soldier: What r u doing? Live Tweeting! Can't talk! Soldier: Got it.
They wouldn’t be. We weren’t allowed to even have the batteries in ours. Taliban, AQI, etc. all track them. Same reason we weren’t allowed any non-secure Comms (e.g. Motorola talkabouts)…Sucked, but that’s life.
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