re: #946 Bubblehead II

Morning Lizards.

Someone screwed the pooch.

Glitch highlights U.S. military reliance on GPS

*snip*

“All the affected receivers were manufactured by a division of Trimble Navigation Limited of Sunnyvale, Calif., according to the Air Force. The military said it ran tests on some types of receivers before it upgraded ground control systems with the new software in January, but the tests didn’t include the receivers that had problems.”

Land Navigation was always one of my favorite exercises. You always had a few guys reading the mils on the compass, or getting their pace counts wrong and then there were those who just could not handle terrain recognition.