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In the April 2006 story, page 26, "Soldiers, Marines Team Up in Trailblazer Patrols," the manufacturer of the Cougar cougar: see puma.
cougar
 or puma or mountain lion or panther

Species (Puma concolor) of large, graceful cat that lives in a wide variety of habitats in the Americas, from southern Alaska to Patagonia.
 armored vehicle is incorrect. The vehicle is made Force Protection Industries.

In the March 2006 story, page 20, "Army Land Warrior Land Warrior was a United States Army program, cancelled in 2007,[1][2] that would have used a combination of commercial, off-the-shelf technology (COTS) and current-issue military gear and equipment designed to:
 Not Yet Ready foe War, Gears Up for Next Tryout," the dismounted battle command system was incorrectly identified as the "distributed battle command system." The DBCS (Double Byte Character Set) A character code that uses one or two bytes to represent one character. It was developed for the Japanese, Chinese and Korean languages. See Unicode.

(character) DBCS - (IBM) double-byte character set.
 system, which was intended to accelerate Land Warrior technologies, was the program deemed "not ready for war."

The photograph of a green-laser device ('Tech Talk April 2006, page 48) should have been attributed to the XADS XADS eXperimental Accelerator Driven System  PD/G-105, "threat assessment laser illuminator,." which is made by
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Publication:National Defense
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Date:May 1, 2006
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