From:	Arcady arcady@***.net
Subject:	Starting equiptment [was: Value and so on]
Date:	Mon, 19 Jul 1999 18:49:19 -0700

> > I can legally buy all sorts of guns and explosives today in the USA. So
why
> > did the military not let me take home my M16? Or maybe a tank or two?
Or
> > some Night Goggles? Why did they bother when the streets are
> > already full of this
> > sort of stuff and gangs and so on... Most of it's available through the
> > private sector legally (save for the tank perhaps).
>
> That Arcady, is because an M-16 is not implanted into your body.

Which is one more argument against implanting cyber ware in normal day to
day grunts.

> Also look at it from another perspective. They train you in your job and
> then let you take that information with you when you leave. That
information
> is theirs, and in many cases is classified... so why don't they brainwash
you
> so you don't remember it when you leave? becasue its WRONG, for one. Its

They do however monitor you. I know several vets who worked in top secret
projects and they all had to report on their actions and travel plans on a
regular basis and whenever going overseas. They had to get approval for many
things and were restricted from many places of travel.

The military doesn't hand out it's sensitive data nor it's equipment
lightly.

> also not cost effective for another, just as is having to pay a solder for
> several month who isnt doing anything but laying in a hospital bed after
> having his GI issue cyber ware removed prior to discharge. I will
acknowlege
> that short timers tend to be more laid back right before their discharge,
but
> they are still there, doing their job until they ARE discharged.

I got two months paid leave when I left.

> Cyber ware. Remember
> those Second hand Cyber ware rules? Basicly, the rist of damaging the
paitent
> and or the cyber ware in question is another thing that makes it non cost
> effective, not to mention the fact that if they did take it out
> and put it in someone else the cyber ware doesnt work as well.

Yet another reason to not hand out cyber ware to normal day to day grunt
troops. All that is reasonable to hand out is a data jack that can take a
smart link and the equipment needed to run skillsofts.


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