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SSgt GG-15 RET Jim Lint Distinct Possibility but seeing as I No Longer Have "The Need to Know" My Opinion would be Supposition.

Interesting share brother.

It took many years as a sailor/Coast Guard Licensed Operator/Navigator before I relied on any electronic navigation system. I was old school. The first time I used GPS on a boat, I was sailing to Catalina Island in a dense fog. Although I was maintaining as precise a dead reckoning plot as I could, I turned on the infernal device. When it beeped to let me know I had entered Two Harbors, I stopped the boat and sent my son to the bow with a flashlight to see what he could see. We had stopped just feet short of a boat that had anchored across the entrance to the harbor. After that I began to rely on the infernal machine more often but kept up my old skills. You never know when a battery will die or someone will drop it overboard. The same is true in the car. I used to have a glove compartment full of road maps. Hell, you can't find them anymore. Now kill GPS and think of what might happen. How many others remember the old school methods? How many would even know which way is up on a sextant let alone be able to use one? And think of all the GPS guided munitions. Etc. Etc. Etc. Yeah, we better start protecting those assets, hadn't we?