Science & Technology & U.S. admin on 08 Aug 2006 11:05 am
Troops Tend to Handheld Virtual Families
Stationed just outside of Baghdad for the past 26 months, Corporal Emmitt Brown hasn’t seen his wife or young daughter since his deployment. Thanks to the Pentagon putting a new use to an old technology, however, he feels they are still very much a part of his daily life.
“See that little brown bar there? The longer it is, the worse her diaper is,” Corporal Brown says as he deftly manipulates the buttons on the small handheld device he holds. The device starts to gurgle and coo. “All set now, but boy, that was a nasty one. I forgot to bring her on patrol with me. Bad daddy.”
See the whole article at CAP News:
http://www.crystalair.com/content.php?id=88200609002
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