To aggravate matters, coach passengers are often marched through the front cabin, filled with pre-flight libations, en route to their dreaded fate (some may later dash across the border for a restroom).

FORBES: Occupy This: Up in the Air

If all goes as planned, several prototypes will be loosed on the Marine Corps by May of next year, and if this here technology adds a dash of omnipresence to the men and women in uniform, it could be deployed en masse shortly thereafter.

ENGADGET: Joint Forces Command trialing hybrid GPS technology