| Modern night vision equipment is state of the art | | | | taped and stored in the goggles and can be saved |
| for infantry and Special Forces. After the most | | | | using a USB port and a downloadable cartridge will |
| recent assault on the International Terrorists and | | | | be water proof and stored in one of the pockets |
| insurgents in Falluja, Iraq the United States Military | | | | of the uniform. This video footage will be brought |
| and the US Trained Iraqi Security Forces put to | | | | back for training at USMC, DHS, FBI, SWAT, |
| good use the methods of Urban Combat. Much of | | | | Ranger, Seal facilities. In these new high tech |
| the specialized equipment such as the night vision | | | | simulators the lights will be turned off, a ten |
| equipment was put to good use in the | | | | screen surround system including 10 foot ceiling |
| door-to-door search and destroy mission to round | | | | and ceiling screen as well; will play the footage in |
| up the bad guys. Navy Seals, Swat Teams, | | | | normal speed with sound. A system similar to the |
| Special Forces all deploy such modern night vision | | | | NASA Control Tower Training will be used as a |
| equipment which is used in conjunction with long | | | | virtual reality environment, like that of the CAVE |
| range binoculars, these units can see thousands of | | | | Project. |
| yards in the pitch black of night, they work so | | | | This way the trainees will have been to virtual |
| well in fact that they are quite addicting. War | | | | battle hundreds and hundreds of times with |
| fighters have been known to keep them on even | | | | thousands hours under their belt before risking life |
| while in closer quarters where lighting is sufficient | | | | and limb in the theatre. The lives we save in the |
| without them. | | | | field will more than pay for the additional training |
| We see the new GPS Night Vision Equipment with | | | | virtual reality simulators. We believe these new |
| all the bells and whistles incredibly useful in the | | | | systems once integrated will save lives and |
| BattleSpace, yet we believe now with the smaller | | | | increase productivity in the arenas of urban |
| processors and micro sensors that we can in fact | | | | warfare, SWAT hostage situations, DEA drug |
| improve greatly upon the current designs without | | | | busts, Border Patrols chases, FBI stings, DHS |
| adding weight. Actually it seems that now with | | | | efforts, Coast Guard ship boardings, etc. |
| modern almost off the shelf electronics from | | | | We should order 15 such simulators and put them |
| AMD and Intel that these night vision goggles, | | | | strategically around the country for training, day |
| binoculars and specialty equipment could even | | | | and night, 24-hour, 7 days a week. It is well |
| shave a pound and a half off their current weight. | | | | worth the money and with the current battles |
| Surround Panoramic Night Vision is Possible and it | | | | going on now we can we will have plenty of |
| is also need as per the Air Force Report to the | | | | action packed footage for all of these agencies |
| Senate Armed Forces Committee, subcommittee | | | | and military needs for training. Once we have a |
| on; "Emerging Threats for Fiscal-Year 2002" see | | | | video library of the most dangerous and |
| page 11. In aviation you constantly need to check | | | | challenging footage we will be well on our way. |
| six so you do not get shot out of the sky. | | | | In aviation simulators and NASA Space Shuttle |
| Imagine in the Vietnam War if our LRP -Long | | | | simulators they give you multiple emergencies and |
| Range Patrols had surround nigh vision equipment? | | | | the most gruesome combinations of hair raising, |
| They could sneak around at night, all night and see | | | | gut wrenching, adrenaline engaging issues and they |
| everything all around them in better than daytime | | | | give them to you all at once. It is times like that |
| visibility and further than the Bionic Man. | | | | which try men's souls. These simulators test to |
| Currently the most well respected and sought | | | | see if the pilots have the right stuff. We need |
| after military night vision equipment have | | | | that for all of our teams. By using electronic video |
| extended fields of vision. Some specially designed | | | | from the combat soldiers point of view, urban |
| units have 210-degree vision. This is absolutely | | | | warfare takes on a whole different view. From |
| great, however we need 360 vision. This is | | | | these electronic video sessions modifications can |
| possible using small antenna like tubes with tiny | | | | be made using the latest motion picture therefore |
| cameras in the ends. The tubes will bend like the | | | | change and manipulate the combat situation into a |
| sun glasses pilots wear to fit comfortably over | | | | new reality. Is it real or is it Memorex? Am I in |
| the ears. These tubes will follow the edge of the | | | | Iran or North Korea or am I in the; Code Name: |
| skull and over the ear then jut out one inch and | | | | "Matrix IV" at the USMC base at Camp |
| turn back parallel to the skull again and point | | | | Pendleton? Look, here it is; Kids playing video |
| directly back on both sides of the soldiers head. | | | | games on their computers are becoming quite |
| These tubes can be incorporated with other | | | | good at quick thinking, fast acting gaming, this |
| equipment such as helmets, goggle straps, | | | | training taken to much higher or ultimate in |
| earpieces or speaker booms, which are | | | | current technology level will be more than |
| commonly worn for inter team communication. | | | | productive. Such a regiment of training is smart, |
| The vision tubes will have static cling surface on | | | | non-linear and reality based. Politicians role play for |
| the bottom, which will stick to the other hardware | | | | debates, salesmen envision the sale during the |
| worn by the team member. | | | | process, athletes use psycho-cybernetics and |
| The projection of the rear view will be displayed | | | | place themselves in tomorrows race winning, pilots |
| above the frontal view similar to the video back | | | | and astronauts use simulators and like the old |
| up monitors above the center of front windshield | | | | adage says; practice makes perfect. It pays to |
| of a motor home to assist in backing up. If the | | | | practice now before they are firing real bullets. |
| night vision is equipped with heat sensors and | | | | By adding these technologies and abilities to the |
| color change to show such body heat, the rear | | | | night vision equipment in the field and deploying |
| view will not incorporate this, the rear view to | | | | our elite forces with them, we can use those |
| save weight will only be the normal green tint | | | | experiences to train our next wave of future |
| color. | | | | fighters. |
| The entire scene both front and rear will be video | | | | |