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Originally Posted by SemperFideles On a side note, I asked a room full of junior Officers the other day if they knew what a Frost Call was. Only one in the room knew and that's only because her boss had forced one recently.
Whenever something important was happening in a military unit, there was a standard procedure set up that many of you probably know as a "phone tree". Everyone knew who to call so the entire unit could be contacted and, in some cases, recalled. Now, nobody practices it any more and when e-mail goes down a command is paralyzed. | The United States military is at the mercy of e-mail? Yikes. |
Shhhhh....the Chinese might read this.
Seriously, don't bet your life on it. My point was pedagogical to the students I was teaching. We adjust but it's painful. As a Communications Officer I *always* provide alternate comm means but people don't know how to use them. We still use radio by and large for Ground Combat and Air Support.