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tell YOU when YOU go over a boundary, for example, even when it would be
impossible to define the boundary with terrain features. Where PLRS would go
out, GPS would fill the gap; of course, there are times during the day when
GPS is not effective.   But it was still important.
   With that kind of capability, you can give somebody almost a north-south
grid line as a boundary, rather than a piece of terrain, and they'll be able to
know where they are and coordinate it at the company level.

Proceedings: Describe the tank battle at the airfield.

Myatt: Up there it was kind of interesting, because you couldn't see.  For six
months, we had watched the winds.    The wind had come out of the northwest
all the six months previously, and there were times, no longer than 12 hours,
where as a front passed through the wind would shift around and then come
back out of a predominant direction of northwest. When we began the campaign
in our area, the wind, for four straight days, was out of the southeast, so it

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