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From: merkel@shuxd.att.com (Tom Merkel)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Laser training guns
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Date: 25 May 89 03:08:39 GMT
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From: merkel@shuxd.att.com (Tom Merkel)
This is all from memory, but here goes:

I first saw this technology years ( 10 or more ) ago in a 
short film on the training of guards for nuclear materials
in transport.  These people trained with a small laser
( similar to a laser gunsight ) mounted on the rifle barrel.
The sensor was a detector on a chest belt.  While not as 
sophisticated as the vest described,  it did allow for 
realistic training.  If you were hit,  you were supposed to
fall down on the spot.  Both bad guys and good guys were
equipped the same.  I remember that the bad guys got to pick the
battle/ambush,  the good guys had to hold them off long enough 
for reinforcements to arrive.  
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          Tom Merkel		|	merkel@shuxd.att.com
   Hard work never hurt anyone, |	att!shuxd!merkel
   but why take chances.    	|	merkel%shuxd@att.arpa
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          Tom Merkel		|	merkel@shuxd.att.com
   Hard work never hurt anyone, |	att!shuxd!merkel
   but why take chances.    	|	merkel%shuxd@att.arpa