Finding enough well-trained frontline soldiers to field a force of up to 60, 000 for up to a year out of Europe's 2m-strong armed forces ought not to be that hard.
It also has the continuing challenge of being able to quickly get weapons and other systems to soldiers in the field.
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Soldiers in the field can text GPS coordinates, send pictures of their surroundings, or file common reports directly from their phone.
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The idea is to attach a patch of the stuff to tents, so soldiers in the field have a built-in power source.
It is hoped that it could provided vital communication between soldiers in the field or fire-fighters, displaying warnings when normal radios can't be used.
And according to Sergeant-Major Bernard McPherson, part of the XM25's development programme in Virginia, it is receiving rave reviews from soldiers in the field.
The product could be used to help stabilize bleeding soldiers in the field long enough to transport them to a hospital where they can be more fully treated.
Robinson noted that soldiers in the field today are not at risk for Gulf War illness, because the military is no longer using the PB pills or pesticides that led to the illness in 1990 and 1991.
The duo were inspired by the energy needs of people who would not have ready access to the electric grid, particularly soldiers in the field, who often carry as much as 20 pounds of batteries to power their communications equipment, laptops and night-vision goggles, according to the news release.
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These people are sitting in air-conditioned offices, making policy for soldiers who are in the field.
The Ancient Greeks and Romans carried red flags in battles, and as late as the 1800s soldiers wore red in the field as a way to intimidate their enemies.
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Even if Germany believed it would be in Moscow by late fall, controlling the countryside in W. Russia would have required soldiers to remain in the field and conduct operations.
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Starring Nicolas Cage and Adam Beach, it relates how a unit of Navajo field-communications soldiers uses a derivative of their Native American language to encrypt radio messages in the Pacific Theater.
Once equipped with mesh-enabled devices, soldiers fanning out on a field or firefighters in a burning building could create an impromptu network, automatically transmitting communications from person to person until returning back to commanders.
Our soldiers and agents in the field will have to run more risks as they must secure physical evidence at the point of capture and maintain a chain of custody that will stand up to the standards of a civilian court.
The soldier, a member of the 1st Battalion, The Royal Irish Regiment, who was 6ft 7in (2m) tall, was standing in a "safe" area where soldiers eat their lunch in a field a kilometre away from the action zone.
Soldiers may be getting it from soil or from field hospitals in Iraq or even the big U.S. base in Landstuhl, Germany.
Just as Ha'aretz's campaign against Baruch-Sharvit will frighten other military lawyers called upon to assess the legality of proposed operations into refusing to make decisions, so incidents like this will make commanders in the field think twice before they tell their soldiers to protect themselves.
And really what you hear in the field, sort of privately in conversation with soldiers, is a little more frank and a little more, I would say, realistic than what you hear often from people in the Pentagon.
The Department of Defense is using a tactical ground reporting system so soldiers can report people and events they encounter in the field, in effect crowdsourcing information from disparate sources so other teams can understand what they may encounter.
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He was in a field 1km away from the action zone in an area where soldiers eat their lunch when he was shot and killed in May 2012.
This gives the Americans a full division's worth of equipment in Kuwait which could be activated at short notice, its soldiers flown in from the US or Germany and then deployed into the field.
The relationships between soldiers begin as the result of common suffering in basic training, schools and field training where the troops brave cold, rain, homesickness and exhausting work to accomplish a common goal.
That means the Jersey Field Squadron, like most other TA units, needs to recruit more soldiers and prepare them for deployment.
These are the machines that utility companies buy for their field service personnel, that police departments buy for cops and that the military buys for soldiers in dangerous places around the world.
The genre is technically known as a Tactical Role Playing Game, meaning that one of the primary game activities is to collect different types of soldiers (in our case, a crew of odd-ball talking animals and mythological creatures) and field them in tactical battles (ship raids and prison breaks).
Essentially an iPhone app, it leverages recent developments in location awareness and social networking to keep tabs on both friends and enemies in the field, displaying positions on maps in real time -- all the while enabling secure communications between soldiers.
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