Once, while in Saudi Arabia, I had this ensemble:
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[li]Kevlar helmet[/li][li]Flashlight[/li][li]M16A2 rifle[/li][li]6 30-round magazines[/li][li]4 fragmentary grenades[/li][li]4 chem sticks[/li][li]1 chemical detection kit[/li][li]2 MREs (Meal Ready to Eat)[/li][li]Chem/Bio/Nuclear protective suit (jacket, trousers, boots, gloves, mask)[/li][li]Bayonet[/li][li]AM/FM portable tape player[/li][li]Kevlar “flak” vest[/li][li]night vision goggles[/li][li]Atropine injectors[/li][li]Anthrax tablets[/li][li]Wristwatch[/li][li]Compass[/li]
Occassionaly I carried one of the following:
[li]LAW[/li][li]M60 machinegun[/li][li]2 cannisters of M60 ammunition and tripod[/li][li]PRC-77 radio[/li][/ul]
Well, aside from my watch, and occasionally glasses, the only technology I really carry around is my CD player when I go walking.
Though back in December, I was hooked up to a portable IV system for a few days. And very thankfully portable, as electrolytes and antibiotics seem to go straight to my bladder.
Ranchoth
(“Look at me! I’m a Cyborg!”)
Back when I was doing cell system optimization and testing I carried the following items regularly:
5 cell phones
5 TEMS test sets (gadgets used to interface cell phones with computers to record test data)
1 laptop
1 hub (to go between the laptop and the TEMS)
1 GPS
1 camera to snap pics of locations with coverage anomalies (mostly pictures of odd geographical features that block signals)
1 Byrd RF power meter
1 home-made continous wave signal monitor (not as fancy as it sounds)
1 portable CD player as a test audio source
1 pocket recorder for notes
1 pager
1 scientific calculator
1 wristwatch
Plus power supplies/chargers/batteries for most of the above. I had a big backpack. Fortunately, most of the actual testing was done while driving, but I had to walk through quite a few buildings carrying all of that to get indoor readings.
For sheer mass of technology, I had to carry “Big Blue”, our 80-pound transmitter, up 12 flights of stairs and a 30-foot ladder to set up a test site on the roof of a building with a broken elevator. Fortunately, that was a once-off.
A wax tablet (definite improvement over those durned stone tablets - gave me writer’s cramp in the worst way. And you can’t erase, either.) with a bronze stylus. Cost me a pretty drachma to buy, but it was worth it.
