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Originally Posted by Anaraxes
The lack that jumped out at me the most, reinforcing the fact that this was 1992, was a lack of maps. Apparently there weren't a lot of detailed military maps of US cities, and so they had to make do with "automobile club maps and maps by a local cartographer". These days, I'd expect someone to pull out their smartphone and use Google Maps. Though maybe the Guard leaves behind such personal gear when on a mission, either by regulation or just so as not to risk losing it. I recall widespread availability of GPS devices at low levels being cited as an advantage in the 2003 Iraq war, but this was a decade earlier.
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Google Maps has the benefit that it is zoomable, actively updated, and shows you your current position, but it still doesn't show a lot of terrain details that the military would need to know.