Glenn Reynolds significantly increased the level of class on his world-famous blog with this post.
The quality is terrible, but the end reveals something about the American fighting man that is the direct result of living in a free society--initiative and creativity.
Drove the Russians/Chinese nuts, it did/does.
In this case, it may have been a maintainer who thought of it, the squadron weapons officer, or maybe even a line pogue. (Really. One of my former charges used to build black boxes for the Voyager space probe but he wanted to fly. So he did--on a 5-year sabbatical from Motorola.)
Anyway, when you take an ACMI pod (the thingie you hang on your jet that collects and transmits flight data to a range ground station for training purposes) and turn it into a radio range extender, that's just, well, very, very cool.
...and we wonder why the American people take pride in their soldiers...
