> On the other hand, I have had some rather fond moments with my friends using > their GPSs, for example, when the batteries go dead, they can't figure out > how to use them on the fly, or they drop them over the side and sink down to > Davy's locker, all of which I've seen more than once. Another particularly > fond moment was on crossing when I was looking at our destination and a > friend was looking down at his GPS. My career soldier son, who was in Desert Shield/Desert Storm, has some amusing stories of the use of GPS when his division swung wide into Iraq to cut off the Republican Guard. Some tank commanders had grown so blindly dependent on their GPSs that they tended to not consult their topo maps much. They wind up coming to screetching halts at the edge of deep gullies or going into dead end waddies. ralph diaz *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Feb 13 2004 - 07:35:36 PST
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