That's pretty badass
I think about the fact that I used to deliver pizzas in high school with absolutely no GPS assistance. That doesn't seem possible now.  Previous Message
...was downright miraculous.
...and that they were effing huge (despite being called the Precision LIGHTWEIGHT GPS Receiver)
The one I used in 1994-5, which an entire battery was lucky to have one:
The one we were pretty much all battery officers/senior NCOs were issued in 1996:
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