Re: do GMS/P troopers carry ARs?

On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Michael Sarno wrote:
> > I don't think that would be an issue, a military weapon that would
only fire for
> > one guy would be pretty useless in military terms. I'm sure there
would be some
> > sort of "group ID" or user access list genned up for the squad
platoon whatever,
> > else it would be more a hinderance than an assett.
> 
>     At least, this will be the case.	More likely though, military
weapons won't have
> any of these authorization features.	In combat, there are just too
many things that
> could go wrong with the system and then you're left with a very heavy,
expensive
> club. <g>  Checking for thumbprints and retina patterns would get in
the way of
> grunts wearing gloves or even sunglasses/goggles.  It might apply to
some
> backgrounds, sure, but that's more a matter of whether or not it's
possible to
> interchange weapons, and not the time/actions argument.

  The US military's current idea seems to be to have perfect knowledge
of
the battlefield.   Personally, I'm surprised they haven't already
started
implanting chips into their soldiers...
  Regardless of IFF, it's easy enough to say that whatever horrible fate
befell the weapon's carrier also befell the weapon itself, or it's ammo.
I'd only really be interested in worrying about fixed emplacement
weapons
and vehicles.