With the introduction of more technology into the daily duties of military personnel... Do Apps Help You or Just Waste Your Time?

I think it is that 50/50 mix issue, some are very beneficial, but also some are problematic for numerous reasons, one people become to reliant on some technologies and don't know how to do the task or duty when the tech aspect is down or not available. I can't tell you how many times I had units say they couldn't give morning reports because the net was down or their computer was not working at the time, and I would tell them pull out the form that should still be in their files somewhere make a copy of the blank if needed and fill it out by hand and walk their "happy ass" across the quad and bring it to BN/BDE for the proper forwarding for the next level, it is how we did it before the Internet.

I usually heard the dead silence on the other end as they had no clue what to do, and these were usually were senior NCOs or Officers who were dumbfounded at what to do.