The Well-Connected Troops

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James Dao, Staying in Touch With Home, for Better or Worse. New York Times, Feb 17, 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/us/17soldiers.html?scp=1&sq=military%20better&st=cse
("The Pentagon, which for years resisted allowing unfettered Internet access on military computers because of cyber-security concerns, has now embraced the revolution, saying instant communication is a huge morale boost for troops and their families")

Note:
(a) scramble (vi):
"1a : to move with urgency or panic
b : to move or climb hastily on all fours"

All definitions are from www.m-w.com.
(b) The report says, "The communication gap that once kept troops from staying looped into the joyful, depressing, prosaic or sordid details of home life has all but disappeared.

loop (vt): "to connect (electric conductors) so as to complete a loop"

(c) reveille (n; modification of French réveillez, imperative plural of réveiller to awaken, from Vulgar Latin *exvigilare, from Latin ex- + vigilare to keep watch, stay awake): "a bugle call at about sunrise signaling the first military formation of the day"
(d) The report states, "With an eight-and-a-half-hour difference between Afghanistan and their home in Ashville, N.C., he [George Moody] and his wife are waking after midnight almost every day."

time zone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone
(Time zones are based on Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), the mean solar time at longitude 0° (the Prime Meridian))
contains a world map showing Oman and Afghanistan are unique, with 4 and 4 1/2 hours ahead of GMT respectively.

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choi

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James Dao, Staying in Touch With Home, for Better or Worse. New York Times, Feb 17, 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/us/17soldiers.html?scp=1&sq=military%20better&st=cse
("The Pentagon, which for years resisted allowing unfettered Internet access on military computers because of cyber-security concerns, has now embraced the revolution, saying instant communication is a huge morale boost for troops and their families")

Note:
(a) scramble (vi):
"1a : to move with urgency or panic
b : to move or climb hastily on all fours"

All definitions are from www.m-w.com.
(b) The report says, "The communication gap that once kept troops from staying looped into the joyful, depressing, prosaic or sordid details of home life has all but disappeared.

loop (vt): "to connect (electric conductors) so as to complete a loop"

(c) reveille (n; modification of French réveillez, imperative plural of réveiller to awaken, from Vulgar Latin *exvigilare, from Latin ex- + vigilare to keep watch, stay awake): "a bugle call at about sunrise signaling the first military formation of the day"
(d) The report states, "With an eight-and-a-half-hour difference between Afghanistan and their home in Ashville, N.C., he [George Moody] and his wife are waking after midnight almost every day."

time zone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone
(Time zones are based on Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), the mean solar time at longitude 0° (the Prime Meridian))
contains a world map showing Oman and Afghanistan are unique, with 4 and 4 1/2 hours ahead of GMT respectively.

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