I personally served in Afghanistan and I do appreciate that they are at least thinking about us but I believe they are going about it wrong. They shouldn't plain not make it available to us, plenty of us don't have issues with stuff like that. Some of us do. Instead I'd propose that they put a warning label on the game boxes at all the PX/BX locations. We are all mature enough to make out own decision. The label would just inform those of us that buy a random game every now and then that the content inside the game could be sensitive in nature.
It's extremely easy to shoot one of those down. The Taliban when I was in Afghanistan were great at knocking those out of the sky within days of actually figuring out they couldn't eat their brains. No joke. It seriously scared the shit out of them.
I'm in the infantry and have been out in Afghanistan for the past nine months. Basically anything that can't withstand being dropped 20 feet and then run over by a truck will break out here. Personally I don't think he will need a solar charger of any kind. I'd just get him rechargable AA batteries that he can charge while he's at base. They don't weigh much and he'll have to carry a bunch with him anyway. A lot of our equipment runs on them.
As for a camera I have a VIO POV.1 helmet camera. It captures near DVD quality video and has fair sound capture with a port for an external microphone. It's gone on dozens and dozens of patrols. It's been dropped and tripped over. It's still in one piece. The only problem I have now is the audio quality sounds tinny. Though a reporter who came out here has had the same problem with all of his video cameras after having them around 120mm mortars firing (120-db to 205-db depending on the charge). I'd highly recommend it. A newer one has come out since I purchased mine. The VIO POV.1.5 might be worth a try.
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I personally served in Afghanistan and I do appreciate that they are at least thinking about us but I believe they are going about it wrong. They shouldn't plain not make it available to us, plenty of us don't have issues with stuff like that. Some of us do. Instead I'd propose that they put a warning label on the game boxes at all the PX/BX locations. We are all mature enough to make out own decision. The label would just inform those of us that buy a random game every now and then that the content inside the game could be sensitive in nature.
They ended up shooting them down with AK-47, PKM, and Dishka fire. Just the standard stuff.
It's extremely easy to shoot one of those down. The Taliban when I was in Afghanistan were great at knocking those out of the sky within days of actually figuring out they couldn't eat their brains. No joke. It seriously scared the shit out of them.
I'm in the infantry and have been out in Afghanistan for the past nine months. Basically anything that can't withstand being dropped 20 feet and then run over by a truck will break out here. Personally I don't think he will need a solar charger of any kind. I'd just get him rechargable AA batteries that he can charge while he's at base. They don't weigh much and he'll have to carry a bunch with him anyway. A lot of our equipment runs on them.
As for a camera I have a VIO POV.1 helmet camera. It captures near DVD quality video and has fair sound capture with a port for an external microphone. It's gone on dozens and dozens of patrols. It's been dropped and tripped over. It's still in one piece. The only problem I have now is the audio quality sounds tinny. Though a reporter who came out here has had the same problem with all of his video cameras after having them around 120mm mortars firing (120-db to 205-db depending on the charge). I'd highly recommend it. A newer one has come out since I purchased mine. The VIO POV.1.5 might be worth a try.
POV.1 - http://shop.helmetcameracentral.com/HC-VIO-POV100.html
POV.1.5 - http://shop.helmetcameracentral.com/HC-VIO-POV15.html