A Thumb Full of Memories
November 22, 2006|
Submitted by Amy Smith
Nothing beats being able to carry every important document, a few good tunes, and some of your favorite pics in your pocket. Can't live without my thumb drive!
Submitted by Dave Godin
I brought a 256 mb USB flashdrive on my last deployment, and found it very useful. I kept pictures from home, all my IE favorites, a list of my friends and family, email addresses, a scanned copy of my orders, a few favorite mp3 songs, and a few other docs on it. No matter where I went, I could plug this into a computer and get what I needed. I wouldn't deploy without one of these.
Ditto! I was so glad when my wife sent me my flashdrive. Not only did I get some good use of it, but a lot of my buddies, who wished they had one of their own, made use of it too!
Posted by: Shawn Klein | November 28, 2006 at 07:43 PM
Even better than the thumb drives are the portable Hard Disk drives. I brought one with 80GB of storage with me to Baghdad. Now I have copies of everyones pictures, all of my music, and some video clips from home. I still have tons of room for more. The one I have uses a laptop HDD and runs off of the USB port with no external power required. It fits on a pocket and goes with me everywhere.
Posted by: Randy | January 02, 2007 at 07:30 AM
It may be nice to have all that info to enjoy, but did you ever think that if your captured or killed and that fell into enemy hands that the information on it could put your loved ones in danger even here in the states
Posted by: Mike Mason | January 07, 2007 at 06:05 PM
Theres always one of these guys anywhere you post, thanks mike
Posted by: My Name | January 11, 2007 at 10:38 AM
Taking personal information into a combat zone is a large no-go. If that personal info. falls into enemy hands, they can use it against you....even threaten your family.
Posted by: Terry Salazar | January 15, 2007 at 07:24 AM
There are a few things to remember. USB drives are an OPSEC risk anywhere you go. There are thumb drives made that encrypt data and require a fingerprint to access.
Never ever put military information on a thumb drive...haven't you read the articles regarding theft of these devices?
Posted by: Bob | January 23, 2007 at 10:28 PM
I'll have to get one...might look at the portable hard drive though...or heck,might get both...
Worried about OPSEC? Simple...just swallow the thing....or shove it you know where.... Get info on you or your family? Cripes..a good interrogator can crack a Ranger in 20 minutes...without doing anything physical to them...
Posted by: ssgchester | January 27, 2007 at 01:09 AM
We have two that we trade back and forth - I send one out to my husband with recent photos from home and he sends one back with photos to show our boys. (He can't get pics. via e-mail.)
Posted by: Melissa | June 13, 2007 at 11:06 PM