John Mahon, left, helps guide a test package of water blivets onto a flatbed trailer on Camp MacKall, N.C., Nov. 10, 2011. Mahon is a senior aerial delivery equipment specialist with the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center. Soldiers airdropped the package under parachute canopy from 1,100 feet as part of a certification process. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod
Battlefield Technology Put To Test In Exercise -- Stars And Stripes
WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M. — Two soldiers, their boots crunching on spent shell casings and sand in the cold desert morning, were surrounded. Barren mountains rose in the distance as they made their stand among the battered brown buildings of a small village.
But it wasn’t Afghanistan, and they weren’t getting shot at.
Instead, they were in the American Southwest getting peppered with questions, lots of questions, about a high-tech prototype communications system that is part of a revolutionary Army testing protocol aimed at quickly supplying downrange troops with needed IT devices and systems.
“How much does it weigh?”
“How long does the battery last?”
“How well does it work?”
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