NewsForge: Marines Still Need a Few Good Parts Sep 12, 2004, 15 :00 UTC (3 Talkback[s]) (6759 reads) (Other stories by Joe Barr)
"Following up on an earlier NewsForge story, we recently exchanged email with LT. Phil Geiger--medical officer with the Third Batallion, Sixth Marines in Iraq--about the current status of their efforts to establish an unofficial wireless network to allow Marines to communicate more often and more easily with friends and families. This self-help project--with volunteer assistance--is now operational, but the Marines could use more assistance.
"We asked Geiger for an update on how the project was doing. He had told us earlier that the dish was operational and that they had one access point and one VOIP phone working..."
