War plays itself out on a literal battlefield , but it also make its way into every face of our lives well beyond that — including technological . Here , a soldier explains how a basic technology has changed the mode soldier live .
io9 ’s gossip of the day comes fromnod_buggywho shared this note about how cellphone have transfer the way war is channel — and how it could be used to change the medical handling soldiers receive :
I ’m an ship’s officer in my state ’s National Guard . The biggest modification in my 10 years that I ’ve seen is the increase trust on mobile phone . This is more often than not only state - side but I saw it creeping into my rotation in Kuwait as well . We do n’t have the same sometime school day-to-day formation and/or regularly check in with your front stemma supervisor to permit him / her bed what you ’re up to ; now you ’ll incur a textual matter or a call if you ’re needed . change I ’d care to see is a firm get-up-and-go to merge or at least communicating data processor system of rules . For object lesson : Our CONUS aesculapian system does n’t blab out to our OCONUS aesculapian system , and neither talk to the VA aesculapian system of rules . Does n’t make much signified , but welcome to the Army .
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